2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Enabling 3D Ultrasound Procedure Guidance through Enhanced Visualization
Authors : Laura J. Brattain, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Robert D. Howe
Published in: Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Real-time 3D ultrasound (3DUS) imaging offers improved spatial orientation information relative to 2D ultrasound. However, in order to improve its efficacy in guiding minimally invasive intra-cardiac procedures where real-time visual feedback of an instrument tip location is crucial, 3DUS volume visualization alone is inadequate. This paper presents a set of enhanced visualization functionalities that are able to track the tip of an instrument in slice views at real-time. User study with
in vitro
porcine heart indicates a speedup of over 30% in task completion time.