A flexible multichannel FPGA and PC-Based ultrasound system for medical imaging research: initial phantom experiments
AUTOR(ES)
Assef, Amauri Amorin, Maia, Joaquim Miguel, Costa, Eduardo Tavares
FONTE
Res. Biomed. Eng.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
29/09/2015
RESUMO
IntroductionIn this paper, we present the initial results of a fully programmable 128-channel FPGA and PC-based system that has been developed for medical ultrasound (US) imaging research in our University laboratory (Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil).MethodsIn order to demonstrate the feasibility of the US research system, two applications involving unfocused plane wave transmission and conventional B-mode beamforming were evaluated using a commercial tissue-mimicking phantom and a 3.2 MHz 128-element convex array transducer.ResultsTesting results show that the hardware platform is able to synthesize arbitrary pulses up to 100 Vpp with second order harmonic distortion below 80 dB. For the first application, a 41-tap digital FIR bandpass filter was applied to the acquired RF echoes, sampled at 40 MHz with 12-bit resolution, to improve the noise suppression. In the second application, after offline apodization weighting, filtering, delay-and-sum processing, envelope detection, log compression and scan conversion, the reconstructed B-mode image is displayed over a 50 dB range.DiscussionThe presented results indicate that the open US imaging system can be used to support different ultrasonic transmission and reception strategies, which typically cannot be implemented in conventional data flow architectures that are mainly based on hardware.
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