Improvement of Freehand Ultrasound Calibration Accuracy Using the Elevation Beamwidth Profile

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1314-1326

  Chen, Thomas Kuiran ^a   Ellis, Randy E ^a   Abolmaesumi, Purang ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 D point reconstruction error; Computer aided surgery; Elevation beam width; Freehand ultrasound imaging; Probe calibration; Section thickness; Slice thickness; Slice thickness calibrator; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

BEAM WIDTHS; COMPUTER AIDED SURGERY; FREEHAND ULTRASOUND IMAGING; POINT RECONSTRUCTION; PROBE CALIBRATION; SECTION THICKNESS; SLICE THICKNESS; SLICE-THICKNESS CALIBRATOR; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FREEHAND ULTRASOUND CALIBRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT ERROR; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SLICE THICKNESS;

CALIBRATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959855292     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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