Embedded digital signal processing for digital ultrasound imaging

National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hassan, Mawia A ^a,b   Youssef, Abou Bakr M ^a   Kadah, Yasser M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b SUDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Digital Ultrasound; Embedded DSP; FIR Hilbert transform filter; FPGA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; DEVICE UTILIZATION; DIGITAL ULTRASOUND; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; EMBEDDED DSP; ENVELOPE DETECTION; FRACTIONAL DELAY FILTERS; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; HILBERT; HILBERT TRANSFORM; IN-PHASE; IN-PHASE COMPONENTS; IN-PHASE FILTER; L-FILTER; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOW NOISE; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; QUADRATURE COMPONENTS; SIMULATION RESULT; ULTRASOUND DATA; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL RADIO; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT TRACKING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; METADATA; SIGNAL DETECTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 79959860270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NRSC.2011.5873642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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