Automated three-dimensional US frame positioning computed from elevational speckle decorrelation |
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Authors: | TA Tuthill JF Krücker JB Fowlkes PL Carson |
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Affiliation: | Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0553, USA. |
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Abstract: | For ultrasonographic B-scan images collected by means of a handheld transducer moving in the elevational direction, frame spacings are computed with a speckle-decorrelation algorithm, without additional positioning hardware. Fully developed speckle volumes are automatically segmented and spacing computed from the decorrelation curves. Position accuracy is within 10% for phantoms and 15% for breast studies. The algorithm provides image-based registration, which allows accurate three-dimensional volume rendering. |
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