Ultrasound Imaging Simulation and Echocardiographic Image Synthesis
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چکیده
The paper presents a ray tracing ultrasound imaging simulation method that accounts for the effects of reflection, scattering and attenuation. Two-dimensional echocardiograhpic images were synthesized using this method. Nonlinear effects introduced by the signal processing units in an ultrasound imaging system were also emulated. Threedimensional triangular facet mesh models were employed in representing the heart structures and generating the synthetic two-dimensional echocardiographic images. The synthetic images agreed with the corresponding real ultrasound images in major ultrasound effects. No other prior work in echocardiographic image synthesis is known.
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