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. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Brattain, L. J., Vasilyev, N. V., & Howe, R. D. (2012). Enabling 3D ultrasound procedure guidance through enhanced visualization. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7330 LNCS, pp. 115–124). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30618-1_12
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