A Reconfigurable Architecture of a Scalable, Ultrafast, Ultrasound, Delay-and-Sum Beamformer

Conference paper (2024)

Authors

V. Kypriotis National Technical University of Athens

G. Smaragdos Erasmus MC

P. Kruizinga Erasmus MC

Dimitrios Soudris National Technical University of Athens

C. Strydis Erasmus MC, Computer Engineering -

Research Group

Computer Engineering () (TU Delft)

FPGA Beamforming Delay and Sum High Frame Rates High Level Synthesis Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging

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Published Date

2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Quantum & Computer Engineering

Research Group

Computer Engineering

Abstract

In recent decades, increasing ultrasound frame rates has been the main motivation behind many novel ultrasound imaging applications [1]-[3]. With this work, we propose an efficient ultrafast FPGA beamformer that applies coherent compounding, through a delay-reuse optimization.

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