Reconstruction of a scoliotic spine using a three-dimensional medical ultrasound system
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Objective Ultrasound imaging has been used to measure the coronal curvature and vertebral rotation on children with scoliosis. However, those studies still use the two-dimensional information to report the three-dimensional (3D) deformity. To truly describe the 3D curvature of spine, a 3D spinal image is needed. This study reported a preliminary experiment to reconstruct a 3D spinal curvature from both in-vitro and in-vivo data acquired from a medical ultrasound system.
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