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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2013.14.12.6066

Calibration Technique for Freehand 3-D Ultrasound System  

Hwang, Myun Joong (School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Halla University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.14, no.12, 2013 , pp. 6066-6071 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a calibration method for a freehand 3-D ultrasound system in medical robotic research. The calibration block with six wires was designed to set the fixed target points. The positions of the ultrasound probe and calibration block were measured using an optical tracker. The relationship between the position of the ultrasound probe and the pixel coordinates in the images was derived using a calibration process. The scaling matrix was also calculated. The experimental results showed that the proposed method could find solutions using a simple least square method from one or multiple ultrasound images.
Keywords
Calibration; Image-guidance robot; Ultrasound;
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