Review Article
A Review on Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging Technology
Table 2
Reconstruction rate of different reconstruction algorithms.
| Algorithm reconstruction | Computation time | Input image size | Volume size | Hardware used | Reference |
| VBMs | VNN | 0.96 sec per image | | | 3.0 GHz CPU | Sherebrin et al. [28] (1996) | Stradx | 0.1 sec per any-plane slice | — | — | Regular PC in 2002 | Prager et al. [25, 105] (1999, 2002) | DW | 0.067 sec per image | — | — | 500 MHz Pentium III workstation | Welch et al. [23] (2000) | Probe trajectory | 0.8–2.6 sec per image | | — | 3.2 GHz Pentium
| Coupé et al. [31] (2005) |
| PBMs | PNN | 0.033 sec per image | Cropped from | — | 2 CPU 933 MHZ Pentium workstation | Gobbi and Peters [33] (2002) | PTL (kernel: ) | 0.05 sec per image (alpha blending) 0.08 sec per image (compounding) | Cropped from
| — | 2 CPU 933 MHZ Pentium workstation | Gobbi and Peters [33] (2002) | Spherical kernel () linear weighting | 0.62 sec per image | | | 2.4 GHz Pentium IV | Barry et al. [38] (1997) | SDW Spherical kernel () nonlinear weighting | 0.75 sec per image | | | 2.4 GHz Pentium IV | Huang et al. [39] (2005) | SDW Spherical kernel () nonlinear weighting | 0.031 sec per image
| | | 3.4 GHz CPU 823 MHz GPU | Chen and Huang [50] (2016) | Ellipsoid kernel Gaussian weighting | 1.5 sec per image | | | IBM RS6000 model 560 workstation | Ohbuchi et al. [34] (1992) | Ellipsoid kernel, off-plane: Gaussian in-plane: linear | 2.6 sec per image | | | HP 9000/700 workstation | Ohbuchi et al. [34] (1992) | 3D kernel | 0.033 sec per image | | | 1.86 GHz CPU 600 MHz GPU | Dai et al. [49] (2010) |
| FBMs | Bezier interpolation | 0.008 sec per image | | | 3.4 GHz CPU 823 MHz GPU | Chen and Huang [50] (2016) |
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