PC-based system for calibration, reconstruction, processing, and visualization of 3D ultrasound data based on a magnetic-field position and orientation sensing system

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

Volumn 2074, Issue , 2001, Pages 13-22

  Boctor, Emad ^a,b   Saad, A ^b   Chang, Dar Jen ^b   Kamel, K ^b   Youssef, A M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

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EID: 84957877705     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45718-6_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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