Interactive Reconstruction and Visualization of Dynamic 3D Ultrasound Data Sets.

Timo Ropinski

Ulm University

Borislav Petkov

Larissa Fabritz

Klaus Hinrichs

Timo Ropinski

Ulm University

Jennis Meyer-Spradow

Stefan Diepenbrock

Jörg Mensmann

Klaus Hinrichs

2008

Abstract

In this paper we describe techniques which have been developed in order to interactively visualize dynamic 3D ultrasound (US) volume data sets acquired using a small animal 2D US scanner. The 2D frames are acquired at different spatial positions and gated based on the ECG signal. For the reconstruction process a user interface is specified, which allows the user to select 2D frames acquired during different ECG phases at different spatial locations. Thus it is possible to reconstruct and visualize a volumetric model based on several 2D frames for different phases of the heart cycle. To improve the interactive visualization, we facilitate filtering techniques, which have been implemented on the GPU.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{ropinski2008interactive,
	title={Interactive Reconstruction and Visualization of Dynamic 3D Ultrasound Data Sets.},
	author={Ropinski, Timo and Petkov, Borislav and Fabritz, Larissa and Hinrichs, Klaus and Ropinski, Timo and Meyer-Spradow, Jennis and Diepenbrock, Stefan and Mensmann, J{\"o}rg and Hinrichs, Klaus},
	year={2008},
	pages={308--315},
	editor={Braz, Jos{\'e} and Jardim Nunes, Nuno and Madeiras Pereira, Joao}
}