Design of a 3D surface scanner prototype suitable for MR

M. Cavalleri, M. Romei, G. Reni

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Abstract

The detection of body movements during MR examination could help in reducing motion artifacts or to get patient responses during functional magnetic resonance. It can be supported by a slit scanner, that combines a camera with a light stripe projector to obtain 3D coordinates of points forming the external surface of the body. In this work we propose a slit scanner prototype based on a miniaturized projector without moving parts. Just small sized hardware is required to analyze the video signal, operating in time domain instead of spatial domain. To accomplish this, the camera is placed with its pixel columns as more parallel as possible to the projected light stripes and the camera video signal is analyzed by a resistor transistor logic after analog processing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
Pages5787-5790
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Duration: Aug 31 2010Sept 4 2010

Other

Other2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
Country/TerritoryArgentina
CityBuenos Aires
Period8/31/109/4/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering

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