Modern implementation of a realtime 3D beamformer and scan converter system

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1400-1403

  Wall, Kieran ^a   Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; Beamformer; FPGA; Real time

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); IMAGE QUALITY; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

3D PARALLEL BEAMFORMERS; APODIZATION UNITS; SCAN CONVERSION SYSTEM;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33847099104     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603116     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. O.T. von Ramm, S.W. Smith, and H.G. Pavy, Jr., "High-speed ultrasound volumetric imaging system - Part II: Parallel processing and image display", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, vol. 38, pp. 109-115, 1991.
2. J. A. Jensen, O. Holm, L. J. Jensen, H. Bendsen, H. M. Pedersen, K. Salomonsen, J. Hansen, and S. Nikolov, "Experimental ultrasound system for real-time synthetic imaging", 1999 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings
3. C. R. Hazard, and G. R. Lockwood, "Theoretical Assessment of a Synthetic Aperture Beamformer for Real-Time 3-D Imaging", 1998 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings
4. C. E. Morton, and G. R. Lockwood, "Theoretical Assessment of a 2D crossed electrode array for 3D imaging", 2003 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings