Real-time ultrasound simulation using the GPU

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 885-892

  Gjerald, Sjur Urdson ^a   Brekken, Reidar ^a,b   Hergum, Torbjørn ^a   D'Hooge, Jan ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; DYNAMIC OBJECTS; EXPONENTIAL ATTENUATION; FIELD OF VIEWS; FRAMES PER SECONDS; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; PHYSICAL MODEL; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; REAL TIME; REFERENCE METHOD; SCATTERING PROCESS; SPECKLE IMAGES; TEXTURE MAPS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; ULTRASOUND SIMULATION; VIRTUAL PROBES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SCATTERING; SPECKLE;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; TEACHING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861508893     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2273     Document Type: Article

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