Real-time GPU-based software beamformer designed for advanced imagingmethods research

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1920-1923

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

graphicsprocessing units; parallel processing; plane wave imaging; software beamformer; synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; DATA SAMPLE; DATA SETS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICSPROCESSING UNITS; IMAGE DATA; IMAGING DEPTH; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PLANE WAVE; RESOLUTION IMAGES; SCANLINE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; TEXTURE MEMORY; WAVE IMAGING; ARRAY ELEMENTS; BEAMFORMER DESIGN; IMAGING METHOD; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; SAMPLING RATES;

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DEMODULATION; DESIGN; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIXELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONICS; BEAMFORMING; ELASTIC WAVES; REAL TIME CONTROL;

BEAMFORMING; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054073904     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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