Title
A Novel Digital Ultrasound System for Experimental Research Activities
Abstract
Commercial ultrasound (US) equipment, although widely employed in diagnostic applications, is not suitable for the development and test of new investigation methods. Their typical architecture, designed for clinical use, is often "closed" and does not fit the requirements of flexibility, data access, programmability, which are necessary for the implementation of original approaches. More flexibility is achieved in high-level platforms, but they are typically characterized by high cost and dimensions. In this paper, a novel US system, specifically designed for research purposes, is presented. Its architecture is based on hi-end programmable devices to obtain the maximum flexibility with minimum cost and size. A preliminary example of application involving simultaneous B-mode and an experimental Doppler technique is discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/DSD.2008.40
Parma
Keywords
Field
DocType
diagnostic application,commercial ultrasound,clinical use,experimental research activities,novel us system,maximum flexibility,novel digital ultrasound system,experimental doppler technique,typical architecture,data access,minimum cost,high cost,digital signal processing,doppler effect,field programmable gate arrays,ultrasound,fpga,computer architecture,dsp,filter bank
Beamforming,Architecture,Digital signal processing,Computer science,Filter bank,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Computer hardware,Doppler effect,Data access,Ultrasound,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-3277-6
3
0.87
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. Bassi130.87
E. Boni232.56
A. Cellai330.87
A. Dallai431.20
F. Guidi59117.15
S. Ricci669.08
P. Tortoli741.28