title: Personal low-cost ultrasound training system.
abstract: To meet the challenge of making realistic training opportunities in medical ultrasound readily available, a PC based low cost personal ultrasound training system has been developed. The training experience is provided by scanning a generic, curved and compliant scan surface with a sham transducer, containing position and orientation sensors, while the PC displays both a virtual subject and a virtual transducer, along with an ultrasound image.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Elec. and Comp. Eng., Worcester Polytechnic Inst, Worcester, MA, USA. pedersen@ece.wpi.edu
authors.forename: Peder C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Skehan
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004493:Education / Q000191:economics*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008838:Microcomputers; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014584:User-Computer Interface