Simulated Ultrasound In medical collaboration with: Dr. Marc Martignoni (Klinikum rechts der Isar) Dr. Sandro Heining (Klinikum Innenstadt) Contact Person(s): Tobias Blum

Keywords: Registration / Visualization, Medical Imaging, HMD and Visualization

Abstract

We are simulating Ultrasound images from CT volumes by assuming a correlation between Hounsfield units and acoustic impedance. Rays are cast trough the CT volume to simulate the US image formation. Simulated Ultrasound from CT can be used for CT/Ultrasound registration by comparing a real US image to simulated ones. Another application of simulated US is training.

Publications

2013
	T. Blum, A. Rieger, N. Navab, H. Friess, M. E. Martignoni A Review of Computer-Based Simulators for Ultrasound Training Simulation in Healthcare, Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 98-108 (bib)
2009
	T. Blum, S.M. Heining, O. Kutter, N. Navab Advanced Training Methods using an Augmented Reality Ultrasound Simulator 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2009), Orlando, USA, October 2009, pp. 177-178. The original publication is available online at ieee.org. (bib)
	T. Blum, M. E. Martignoni, H. Friess, N. Navab An Ultrasound Simulator for Training using CT-based Simulation of Ultrasound Images 5th Russian-Bacarian Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering, Munich, Germany, July 2009 (bib)
	T. Reichl, J. Passenger, O. Acosta, O. Salvado Ultrasound goes GPU: real-time simulation using CUDA SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2009 (bib)
	O. Kutter, A. Karamalis, W. Wein, N. Navab A GPU-Based Framework for Simulation of Medical Ultrasound SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2009 (bib)
	O. Kutter, R. Shams, N. Navab Visualization and GPU-accelerated simulation of medical ultrasound from CT images Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Volume 94, Issue 3, June, 2009 (bib)
2008
	W. Wein, S. Brunke, A. Khamene, M.R. Callstrom, N. Navab Automatic CT-Ultrasound Registration for Diagnostic Imaging and Image-guided Intervention Medical Image Analysis 12(5), pp 577-585, October 2008 (bib)
	R. Shams, R. Hartley, N. Navab Real-Time Simulation of Medical Ultrasound from CT Images Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI, 2008, New York, USA, September 6-10 2008 (bib)
2007
	W. Wein, A. Khamene, D.-A. Clevert, O. Kutter, N. Navab Simulation and Fully Automatic Multimodal Registration of Medical Ultrasound Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2007), Brisbane, Australia, October 2007. Received the MICCAI 2007 Young Scientist Award. (bib)

Team

Contact Person(s)

Dr. Tobias Blum

Working Group

Dr. Athanasios Karamalis

Dr. Oliver Kutter

Dr. Tobias Blum

Dr. Tobias Reichl

Alumni

Ramtin Shams

Dr. Wolfgang Wein

Location

Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik / I16 Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching bei München Tel.: +49 89 289-17058 Fax: +49 89 289-17059

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik - Innenstadt, AG CAS Nussbaumstr. 20 80336 München Room: C2.06 Tel.: +49 89 5160-3615 Tel.: +49 89 5160-3635 Fax: +49 89 5160-3630

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Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitüt München Ismaninger Str. 22 81675 München IFL Lab - Room: 01.3a-c Tel.: +49 89 4140-6457 Fax: +49 89 4140-6458

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