Method and device for detection of diagnostically usable three dimensional ultrasonic picture data set

Abstract

Abstract The imaging system uses an ultrasound device (6) with a freely movable ultrasound head (7), providing a sequence of ultrasound images, fed to an image processing device (1), together with the detected position and orientation of the ultrasound head provided by a position sensor system (8). The image processing device provides a data set representing a 3-dimensional image of the examined volume. The sensor system provides the position and orientation data for each image plane electromagnetically, using a receiver (10) attached to the ultrasound head, with all received data converted by the processing device into a common cartesian coordinate system.

Inventors

• 👤 Hans Dr. Polz

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