GPU-based beamformer: Fast realization of plane wave compounding and synthetic aperture imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1698-1705

  Yiu, Billy Y S ^a   Tsang, Ivan K H ^a   Yu, Alfred C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SIGNALS; BEAM FORMERS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DATA SAMPLE; DELAY AND SUMS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; IMAGING DEPTH; IMAGING PRINCIPLE; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PLANE WAVE; PROCESSING CAPACITIES; SAMPLING RATES; SOFTWARE PROCESSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; ELASTIC WAVES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PIXELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 80052049752     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1999     Document Type: Article

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