Visualization and GPU-accelerated simulation of medical ultrasound from CT images

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 250-266

  Kutter, Oliver ^a   Shams, Ramtin ^b   Navab, Nassir ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

GPU; Real time; Simulation; Ultrasound; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED SIMULATIONS; CT IMAGES; GPU; MEDICAL ULTRASOUNDS; PRE-PROCESSING; REAL-TIME; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUES; SPECKLE PATTERNS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION; ULTRASOUND TRAININGS; VIEW DEPENDENTS; VOLUMETRIC CT;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS; VISUALIZATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 63649110322     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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