Fast ultrasound image simulation using the Westervelt equation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6361 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 243-250

  Karamalis, Athanasios ^a   Wein, Wolfgang ^b   Navab, Nassir ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b White Lion Technologies AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite Difference Method; GPU; Ultrasound Simulation; Westervelt Equation

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; GPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE FORMATIONS; IN-FIELD; PROCESSING TIME; PULSE TRANSMISSION; REALISTIC SIMULATION; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND WAVES; WESTERVELT EQUATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864191191     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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