A strict-time distributed architecture for digital beamforming of ultrasound signals

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2716-2723

  Camacho, Jorge ^a   Martinez, Oscar ^a   Parrilla, Montserrat ^a   Mateos, Ral ^b   Fritsch, Carlos ^a  

^a Institute of Physical and Information Technologies   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beamforming; distributed architectures; timing resolution; ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL; ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION; CODED EXCITATION; CONTROL UNIT; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC FOCUSING; HOST COMPUTERS; PROCESSING MODULES; PROCESSING RATES; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES; SIGNAL INTERPOLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TIME DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; TIME INTERVAL; TIMING ERRORS; TIMING RESOLUTION; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SIGNAL;

BEAMFORMING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FOCUSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77956755678     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2040911     Document Type: Article

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