A Software Package for Portable Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ISBI
• Authors: Tiantian Zhang, X. Xu, Xinlin Chen
• Keywords: Freehand 3D Image, ISBI 2004, Medical Imaging, Miniaturized Linear-array Transducer, Portable Ultrasound Units