title: Automated three-dimensional US frame positioning computed from elevational speckle decorrelation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0553, USA.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Tuthill
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Krücker
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Fowlkes
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Carson
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D014159:Transducers; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*