Design of a multi-channel pre-beamform data acquisition system for an ultrasound research scanner

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1840-1843

  Tsang, Ivan K H ^a   Yiu, Billy Y S ^a   Cheung, Dave K H ^a   Chiu, Harry C T ^a   Cheung, Chris C P ^b   Yu, Alfred C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Ultrasonix Medical Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multi channel data acquisition; Pre beamform data; System hardware design

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; DATA TRANSFER; DIGITAL STORAGE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; PROBES; SCANNING; ULTRASONICS;

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; MULTICHANNEL DATA; PRE-BEAMFORM DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; SYSTEM HARDWARE; TIME-GAIN COMPENSATIONS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 77952838743     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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