A real-time scan conversion algorithm on commercially available microprocessors

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 241-260

  Basoglu, Chris ^a   Kim, Yongmin ^a   Chalana, Vikram ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Instruction level parallelism; MVP; programmable processors; real time; scan conversion; superscalar; TMS320C80; ultrasound machines; VLIW

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIXELS;

INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM; PROGRAMMABLE PROCESSORS; REAL TIME; SCAN CONVERSION; SUPERSCALAR; TMS320C80; ULTRASOUND MACHINES; VLIW;

VERY LONG INSTRUCTION WORD ARCHITECTURE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROPROCESSOR; PULSE GENERATOR; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0030436917     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/uimg.1996.0014     Document Type: Article

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