A reconfigurable and programmable FPGA-based system for nonstandard ultrasound methods

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1378-1385

  Boni, Enrico ^a   Bassi, Luca ^a   Dallai, Alessandro ^a   Guidi, Francesco ^a   Ramalli, Alessandro ^a   Ricci, Stefano ^a   Housden, James ^b   Tortoli, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACCESS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FLEXIBLE TOOL; PROCESSING METHOD; PROGRAMMABLE AND RE-CONFIGURABLE; PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES; QUASI-STATIC; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; TRANSMISSION STRATEGIES; ULTRASOUND METHODS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY LABORATORIES; VECTOR DOPPLER;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84864249792     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2338     Document Type: Article

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