An efficient 3D beamformer implementation for real-time 4D ultrasound systems deploying planar array probes

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1421-1424

  Dhanantwari, A C ^a   Stergiopoulos, S ^a   Song, L ^b   Parodi, C ^c   Bertora, F ^d   Pellegretti, P ^d   Questa, A ^d  

^a CANAMET Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d Esaote   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D beamforming; 3D beamforming, phased array; Beamformer decomposition; Planar array beamformer; Processing cluster

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

3D BEAMFORMING; BEAMFORMER DECOMPOSITION; PHASED ARRAYS; PLANAR ARRAY BEAMFORMERS; PROCESSING CLUSTERS;

ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

EID: 21644475699     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. S. Stergiopoulos and A. C. Dhanantwari, "High Resolution 3D Ultrasound Imaging System Deploying a Multi-Dimensional Array of Sensors and Method for Multi-Dimensional Beamforming Sensor Signals" issued 19 November 2002 US 6,482,160
2. A. Tawfik, A. C. Dhanantwari and S. Stergiopoulos, "A Generic Beamforming Structure Allowing the Implementation of Adaptive Processing Schemes in 2-D and 3-D Arrays of Sensors," Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'97 Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. October 1997, pp. 369-373.
3. A. C. Dhanantwari, S. Stergiopoulos, C. Parodi, F. Bertora, A. Questa, P. Pellegretti, "Adaptive 3D Beamforming for Ultrasound Systems Deploying Linear and Planar Phased Array Probes", 2003, IEEE International Ultrasonic Symposium, Honolulu Hawaii. 5-8 Oct-03
4. S. Stergiopoulos, Handbook on Advanced Signal Processing; Theory and Implementation for Sonar, Radar and Medical Imaging, CRC Press LLC, Radon, FL, December 2000.Signal Processing Handbook.
5. F. Zhang, A. Bilas, K.N. Plataniotis, R. Abiprojo, A. Dhanantwari, S. Stergiopoulos, 'Parallelization and performance of 3D ultrasound imaging beamforming algorithms on modem clusters', in Proceedings, 16th Annual ACM Conference on Supercomputing. June 2002.