Objective Three-dimensional ultrasound has the potential to become a new, fast, non-radiative, non-invasive and inexpensive tomographic medical imaging technique. The medical relevance of three-dimensional ultrasound has already been proven for a wide variety of routine clinical applications related to foetal examination, arterial plaque measurement, gastroenterology, abdominal tumours, cardiology, aneurysm, infant hip measurement and arthritis. On a conventional system the computing time required for a three-dimensional reconstruction is too long varying from several minutes to a few hours for each image. These times are not acceptable for routine clinical applications and hinder general clinical use of the method. The goal of the project is to develop a three-dimensional ultrasound system suitable for routine clinical applications. The necessary reduction in processing time will be achieved through the use of a high-performance computer system for the reconstruction of three-dimensional volumes. The involvement of clinical practitioners in the project ensures the market relevance of the results. Fields of science medical and health sciencesclinical medicinerheumatologymedical and health sciencesclinical medicineangiologyvascular diseasesmedical and health sciencesclinical medicinecardiologymedical and health sciencesclinical medicinegastroenterologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesacousticsultrasound Programme(s) FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 6.4 - HPCN Embedded Systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Kretztechnik Ag EU contribution No data Address Tiefenbach 15 4871 Zipf Austria See on map Total cost No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG Germany EU contribution No data Address Leonrodstrasse 54 80636 MÜNCHEN See on map Total cost No data Parsytec Computer Germany EU contribution No data Address Roermonder Strasse 197 52072 Aachen See on map Total cost No data