A System-on-Chip Solution for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Imaging Systems: Architecture and ASIC Implementation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 412-423

  Kang, Jeeun ^a   Yoon, Changhan ^a,b   Lee, Jaejin ^a   Kye, Sang Bum ^a   Lee, Yongbae ^a   Chang, Jin Ho ^a   Kim, Gi Duck ^a   Yoo, Yangmo ^a   Song, Tai Kyong ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuit; point of care; portable ultrasound system; system on a chip

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BEAMFORMING; CHARGING (BATTERIES); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA COMPRESSION; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; POINT OF CARE; PORTABLE ULTRASOUND; RECEIVE BEAMFORMER; SYSTEM ON A CHIP; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP SOLUTIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAB ON A CHIP; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84963955987     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2015.2431272     Document Type: Article

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