title: Interactive volume rendering of real-time three-dimensional ultrasound images.
abstract: Real-time, three-dimensional (RT3D) ultrasound allows video frame rate volumetric imaging. The ability to acquire full three-dimensional (3-D) image data in real-time is particularly helpful for applications such as cardiac imaging, which require visualization of complex and dynamic 3-D anatomy. Volume rendering provides a method for intuitive graphical display of the 3-D image data, but capturing the RT3D echo data and performing the necessary processing to generate a volumetric image in real time poses a significant technical challenge. We present a data capture and rendering implementation that uses off-the-shelf components to real-time volume render RT3D ultrasound images. Our approach allowed live, interactive volume rendering of RT3D ultrasound scans.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA. johnny.kuo@uphs.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Johnny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Gregory R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Bredthauer
authors.forename: John B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Castellucci
authors.forename: Olaf T
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: von Ramm
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003199:Computer Systems; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity