Date of Award

Spring 2008

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering

Program/Concentration

Modeling and Simulation

Committee Director

Frederic D. McKenzie

Committee Member

Roland Mielke

Committee Member

R. Bowen Loftin

Committee Member

John Sokolowski

Abstract

With the increasing role played by ultrasound in clinical diagnostics, ultrasound training in medical education has become more and more important. The clinical routine for ultrasound training is on real patients; therefore monitored and guided examinations involving medical students are quite time-constrained. Furthermore, standardized patients (SPs), who are increasingly used in medical school for teaching and assessing medical students, need to be augmented. These SPs are typically healthy individuals who can not accurately portray the variety of abnormalities that are needed for training especially when medical examinations involve instrument interactions. To augment SPs in a realistically effective way and also address the resourced time constraints for sonography training, a computerized ultrasound simulation is essential for medical education.

In this dissertation, I investigate a real-time ultrasound simulation methodology based on a virtual 3-dimentional (3-D) mesh organ. This research has developed the simulation technology to augment SPs with synthetic ultrasound images. I present this methodology and its use in simulating echocardiography. This simulated echocardiogram displays the various oriented sonographs in real time according to the placement of a mock transducer without the need of an actual patient.

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DOI

10.25777/az05-qr02

ISBN

9780549596745

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