An object-oriented multi-threaded software beamformation toolbox

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7968, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hansen, Jens Munk ^a   Hemmsen, Martin Christian ^a,b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BK Medical   (Denmark)

Author keywords

beamformation; high performance computing; medical ultrasound; software; toolbox

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMATION; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; SOFTWARE; TOOLBOX;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPLINES; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79957957459     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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