Advanced standardized 3-D-ultrasound-documentation

Purpose: The impact of an ultrasound-examination depends on the experience of the real-time-examiner who makes photos at the end of the examination in order to document the diagnosis already found. The examination itself is not reproducible. In contrast, in CT and MRT a series of standardized cross-sectional photo-documentation is made and the diagnosis is generated afterwards by interpretation of the photo-documents. We show that by 3-D-documentation reproducibility of ultrasound-examination of the liver is possible. Material and methods: Ultrasound-data are gained by a frame-grabber in 3 dimensions x, y and z.…