A Column-Row-Parallel ASIC Architecture for 3-D Portable Medical Ultrasonic Imaging

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 738-751

  Chen, Kailiang ^a   Lee, Hae Seung ^a   Sodini, Charles G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasonic imaging; column row parallel architecture; fault tolerant; linear scaling; parallelism

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BACKWARD COMPATIBLE; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; FRONT END ARCHITECTURE; LOW NOISE RECEIVERS; MEDICAL ULTRASONIC IMAGING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; SECOND HARMONIC DISTORTION;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 84953226722     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2015.2505714     Document Type: Article

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