Visualization and GPU-accelerated simulation of medical ultrasound from CT images

Oliver Kutter; Ramtin Shams; Nassir Navab

doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.12.011

Visualization and GPU-accelerated simulation of medical ultrasound from CT images

Oliver Kutter^*, Ramtin Shams, Nassir Navab

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Abstract

We present a fast GPU-based method for simulation of ultrasound images from volumetric CT scans and their visualization. The method uses a ray-based model of the ultrasound to generate view-dependent ultrasonic effects such as occlusions, large-scale reflections and attenuation combined with speckle patterns derived from pre-processing the CT image using a wave-based model of ultrasound propagation in soft tissue. The main applications of the method are ultrasound training and registration of ultrasound and CT images.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	250-266
Number of pages	17
Journal	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Volume	94
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.12.011
Publication status	Published - Jun 2009

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