A column-row-parallel ultrasound imaging architecture for 3d plane-wave imaging and Tx 2nd-order harmonic distortion (HD2) reduction

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 317-320

  Chen, Kailiang ^a   Lee, Byung Chul ^b   Thomenius, Kai ^a   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^b   Lee, Hae Seung ^a   Sodini, Charles G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ELASTIC WAVES; FAULT TOLERANCE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FRAME RATE; HIGH QUALITY; LINEAR SCALING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; PROGRAMMING TIME; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 84910089674     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2014.0078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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