A. Hernandez et al., ACQUISITION AND STEREOSCOPIC VISUALIZATION OF 3-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASONIC BREAST DATA, IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 43(4), 1996, pp. 576-580
A motorized mechanical setup has been designed to provide a series of
two-dimensional (2-D) parallel echographic slices of the breast from t
he regular translation of a linear phased array transducer, During the
acquisition step, the breast is compressed between a plane support an
d a plexiglass plate to avoid breast motions. A stereoscopic computer
graphic method has been developed for the visualization of such three-
dimensional (3-D) ultrasonic data. Experiments on an agar gel phantom
and on in vivo female breasts have been performed.