TY - GEN
T1 - Freehand 3D ultrasound imaging system using electromagnetic tracking
AU - Daoud, Mohammad I.
AU - Alshalalfah, Abdel Latif
AU - Awwad, Falah
AU - Al-Najar, Mahasen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/1/5
Y1 - 2016/1/5
N2 - Ultrasound imaging is a non-invasive, real-time, low-cost, effective imaging modality for diagnosing and managing a variety of diseases. Most ultrasound-based clinical procedures are performed using conventional two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound images. However, accurate visualization and analysis of the three-dimensional (3D) anatomy using a sequence of 2D ultrasound images is often challenging. To overcome this challenge, several approaches have been proposed for 3D ultrasound imaging. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by describing a freehand 3D ultrasound imaging system based on a conventional 2D ultrasound machine and a 3D electromagnetic tracking system. The synthesized 3D ultrasound volumes are visualized using the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) open-source library and the ParaView open-source application. The feasibility of our freehand 3D ultrasound imaging system is demonstrated by imaging a double cross-wire phantom.
AB - Ultrasound imaging is a non-invasive, real-time, low-cost, effective imaging modality for diagnosing and managing a variety of diseases. Most ultrasound-based clinical procedures are performed using conventional two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound images. However, accurate visualization and analysis of the three-dimensional (3D) anatomy using a sequence of 2D ultrasound images is often challenging. To overcome this challenge, several approaches have been proposed for 3D ultrasound imaging. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by describing a freehand 3D ultrasound imaging system based on a conventional 2D ultrasound machine and a 3D electromagnetic tracking system. The synthesized 3D ultrasound volumes are visualized using the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) open-source library and the ParaView open-source application. The feasibility of our freehand 3D ultrasound imaging system is demonstrated by imaging a double cross-wire phantom.
KW - 3D ultrasound
KW - ParaView software
KW - free-hand ultrasound
KW - the Visualization Toolkit library
KW - volume reconstruction
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U2 - 10.1109/OSSCOM.2015.7372689
DO - 10.1109/OSSCOM.2015.7372689
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964813519
T3 - 2015 International Conference on Open Source Software Computing, OSSCOM 2015
BT - 2015 International Conference on Open Source Software Computing, OSSCOM 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - International Conference on Open Source Software Computing, OSSCOM 2015
Y2 - 10 September 2015 through 13 September 2015
ER -