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Improving Ultrasound imaging. This involves acquiring RF level or other data from the mid-processor stage of the imager (see http://www.ti.com/lit/wp/sprab12/sprab12.pdf, Figure 2) with the intent to provide a more suitable image for a particular application.
Ultrasound post-processing, in which the image is processed to better enable, for example, registration to a CT data set.
Calibration, registration and display of ultrasound in 3D Slicer
Real time (lag free) display of high quality US in Slicer for procedure guidance and lag free registered display in 3D models.
The combination of 3 and 4 on low cost commodity hardware.
The capture of all data to enable post procedure replay of a experimental or clinical session, so that the various processing steps can be debugged and optimized.

Tentative list of presentations

Temporal and spatial calibration of US using PLUS (Andras/Csaba)
Registration and real time display of US in Slicer for procedure guidance (Tamas)
Perk Tutor: A configurable, Slicer-based training platform for ultrasound-guided needle insertions (Tamas)
Low cost hardware. Capture and replay of experimental or clinical sessions (Kirby)
Slicer CaseHub - Plans for capturing, organizing, and accessing multi-track procedure data (Steve)