3D ultrasound imaging in image-guided intervention

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:6151-4. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945033.

Abstract

Ultrasound imaging is used extensively in diagnosis and image-guidance for interventions of human diseases. However, conventional 2D ultrasound suffers from limitations since it can only provide 2D images of 3-dimensional structures in the body. Thus, measurement of organ size is variable, and guidance of interventions is limited, as the physician is required to mentally reconstruct the 3-dimensional anatomy using 2D views. Over the past 20 years, a number of 3-dimensional ultrasound imaging approaches have been developed. We have developed an approach that is based on a mechanical mechanism to move any conventional ultrasound transducer while 2D images are collected rapidly and reconstructed into a 3D image. In this presentation, 3D ultrasound imaging approaches will be described for use in image-guided interventions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Image-Guided Biopsy / methods
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Organ Size
  • Prostate / diagnostic imaging
  • Transducers
  • Ultrasonography / methods*