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    An adaptive speckle suppression filter for medical ultrasound imaging
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1995-06) Karaman, M.; Kutay, M. A.; Bozdagi, G.
    An adaptive smoothing technique for speckle suppression in medical B-scan ultrasonic imaging is presented. The technique is based on filtering with appropriately shaped and sized local kernels. For each image pixel, a filtering kernel, which fits to the local homogeneous region containing the processed pixel, is obtained through a local statistics based region growing technique. The performance of the proposed filter has been tested on the phantom and tissue images. The results show that the filter effectively reduces the speckle while preserving the resolvable details. The simulation results are presented in a comparative way with two existing speckle suppression methods.
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    Design of a novel MRI compatible manipulator for image guided prostate interventions
    (IEEE, 2005-02) Krieger, A.; Susil, R. C.; Ménard, C.; Coleman, J. A.; Fichtinger, G.; Atalar, Ergin; Whitcomb, L. L.
    This paper reports a novel remotely actuated manipulator for access to prostate tissue under magnetic resonance imaging guidance (APT-MRI) device, designed for use in a standard high-field MRI scanner. The device provides three-dimensional MRI guided needle placement with millimeter accuracy under physician control. Procedures enabled by this device include MRI guided needle biopsy, fiducial marker placements, and therapy delivery. Its compact size allows for use in both standard cylindrical and open configuration MRI scanners. Preliminary in vivo canine experiments and first clinical trials are reported.