A 3D ultrasound scanning system for image guided liver interventions

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Neshat, Hamid ^a,b   Cool, Derek W ^a,b   Barker, Kevin ^a   Gardi, Lori ^a   Kakani, Nirmal ^b   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

abdominal ultrasound; interventional guidance; intraoperative guidance; liver imaging; mechanical tracking; three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS; ERRORS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

INTERVENTIONAL; INTRA-OPERATIVE; LIVER IMAGING; MECHANICAL TRACKING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CANCER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSDUCER;

AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84889659957     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4824326     Document Type: Article

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