Title
A New Digital Scan Conversion Architecture for Ultrasonic Imaging Systems
Abstract
Digital scan conversion (DSC) is the process of converting received ultrasound signals, or echoes, in multi-scan lines, at varying angles (polar coordinate), to a Cartesian raster format for displaying. In this paper, we propose a new DSC technique that uses nearest-neighbor interpolation and the linear interpolation between adjacent scan lines to reduce artifacts on the far field, with smaller angular separation between the interpolated lines. A hardware implementation is described that uses only a FIFO register and a display memory. Rapid prototyping using an ARM processor with FPGA resources is achieved to validate the operation of the described system. Experimental results of the implemented design demonstrated the expected operation of the reduced complexity architecture in term of needed memory. Also, the performance of retrieved images were increased.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1142/S0218126605002374
JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital scan converter,ultrasonic imaging,interpolation,rapid prototyping,FPGA
Computer vision,ARM architecture,Raster graphics,FIFO (computing and electronics),Scan conversion,Computer science,Interpolation,Field-programmable gate array,Electronic engineering,Artificial intelligence,Linear interpolation,Scan line
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
2
0218-1266
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdallah Kassem1203.74
Mohamad Sawan2774172.87
Mounir Boukadoum347647.49