| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/H74032/01 |
| Title: |
STRADIVARIUS: THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING AND VISUALISATION OF ULTRASOUND SCANS. |
| Principal Investigator: |
Prager, Professor R |
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Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1992 |
Ends: |
29 February 1996 |
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119,560
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Currently available medical ultrasound scanners provide the clinician with an image corresponding to a 2-d slice through the patient. The unsystematic positioning and orientation of such slices, combined with the significant noise levels in the resulting signal make such images difficult to interpret. A prerequisite of this research is to establish a proprioceptive system which will locate a sequence of scans in 3-d space. Having thus generated 3-d datasets, the objectives will be to adapt techniques for the enhancement of such data, for the interpolation of surfaces through it, and for the rendering for visualisation of these surfaces, to the particular characteristics and difficulties of ultrasonographic data. Utilisation of the system in clinical practice will provide feedback for dealing with, and taking advantage of, these domain-specific characteristics of the data. Further objectives will be to develop visualisation tools whose interfaces will make the resulting data both easily accessible to the clinician, and also easy to manipulate. Tools for improving feedback to the operator during scanning, particularly of the coverage of 3-d space during a sequence of scans will also be developed.
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