Currently, portable ultrasound units lack 3-dimensional (3D) image display, limiting their usefulness especially under hostile operating environments where information must be intuitive and objective. A freehand 3D image processing and visualization software package, Ultra3D, has been developed and tested, especially to work with a miniaturized linear-array transducer probe that is connected to a laptop PC. This paper presents the software design and method to integrate Ultra3D into Terason's miniaturized SmartProbeTM for freehand 3D ultrasound imaging.
Tiantian Zhang, X. Xu, Xinlin Chen