A single mediaprocessor-based programmable ultrasound system

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-70

  Sikdar, Siddhartha ^a   Managuli, Ravi ^b   Gong, Lixin ^a   Shamdasani, Vijay ^b   Mitake, Tsuyoshi ^c   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^c   Kim, Yongmin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct memory access (DMA) programming; Instruction and data level parallelism; Mediaprocessor; Programmable ultrasound machine; Ultrasound B mode system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMODULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

PROGRAMMABLE ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

ALGORITHM; ECHOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER;

ALGORITHMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037361307     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2003.808512     Document Type: Article

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