Novel reconstruction and feature exploitation techniques for sensorless freehand 3D ultrasound

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7629, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rivaz, Hassan ^a   Kang, Hyun J ^a   Stolka, Philipp J ^a   Zellars, Richard ^a   Wacker, Frank ^a   Hager, Gregory ^a   Boctor, Emad ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Fully developed speckle; Speckle decorrelation

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; CALIBRATION CURVES; CONTINUITY CONSTRAINTS; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXPLOITATION; FREEHAND 3-D ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS; FREEHAND 3D ULTRASOUND; FULLY DEVELOPED SPECKLE; HIGHER DERIVATIVES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; NOVEL METHODS; OUT-OF-PLANE MOTION; SENSORLESS; SPECKLE DECORRELATION; ULTRASOUND PROBES;

CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; PROBES; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77956825250     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.846456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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