Enhanced ultrasound for advanced diagnostics, ultrasound tomography for volume limb imaging and prosthetic fitting
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Anthony, Brian
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Ultrasound imaging methods hold the potential to deliver low-cost, high-resolution, operator-independent and nonionizing imaging systems-such systems couple appropriate algorithms with imaging devices and techniques. The increasing demands on general practitioners motivate us to develop more usable and productive diagnostic imaging equipment. Ultrasound, specifically freehand ultrasound, is a low cost and safe medical imaging technique. It doesn't expose a patient to ionizing radiation. Its safety and versatility make it very well suited for the increasing demands on general practitioners, or for providing improved medical care in rural regions or the developing world. However it typically suffers from sonographer variability; we will discuss techniques to address user variability. We also discuss our work to combine cylindrical scanning systems with state of the art inversion algorithms to deliver ultrasound systems for imaging and quantifying limbs in 3-D in vivo. Such systems have the potential to track the progression of limb health at a low cost and without radiation exposure, as well as, improve prosthetic socket fitting. Current methods of prosthetic socket fabrication remain subjective and ineffective at creating an interface to the human body that is both comfortable and functional. Though there has been recent success using methods like magnetic resonance imaging and biomechanical modeling, a low-cost, streamlined, and quantitative process for prosthetic cup design and fabrication has not been fully demonstrated. Medical ultrasonography may inform the design process of prosthetic sockets in a more objective manner. This keynote talk presents the results of progress in this area. Keywords: Clinical ultrasound, Force control, 3-D ultrasound, Tomography
Date issued
2016-04Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography
Publisher
SPIE
Citation
Anthony, Brian W. “Enhanced Ultrasound for Advanced Diagnostics, Ultrasound Tomography for Volume Limb Imaging and Prosthetic Fitting.” Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, February - March 2016, San Diego, California, USA, SPIE, April 2016 © 2016 SPIE
Version: Final published version
ISBN
9781510600256
ISSN
0277-786X
1996-756X