A new post-phase rotation based dynamic receive beamforming architecture for smartphone-based wireless ultrasound imaging

Minsuk Park; Jeeun Kang; Gunho Lee; Min Kim; Tai-Kyong Song

doi:10.1117/12.2216705

1 April 2016 A new post-phase rotation based dynamic receive beamforming architecture for smartphone-based wireless ultrasound imaging

Minsuk Park, Jeeun Kang, Gunho Lee, Min Kim, Tai-Kyong Song

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Proceedings Volume 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 97901V (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216705
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Recently, a portable US imaging system using smart devices is highlighted for enhancing the portability of diagnosis. Especially, the system combination can enhance the user experience during whole US diagnostic procedures by employing the advanced wireless communication technology integrated in a smart device, e.g., WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. In this paper, an effective post-phase rotation-based dynamic receive beamforming (PRBF-POST) method is presented for wireless US imaging device integrating US probe system and commercial smart device. In conventional, the frame rate of conventional PRBF (PRBF-CON) method suffers from the large amount of calculations for the bifurcated processing paths of in-phase and quadrature signal components as the number of channel increase. Otherwise, the proposed PRBF-POST method can preserve the frame rate regardless of the number of channels by firstly aggregating the baseband IQ data along the channels whose phase quantization levels are identical ahead of phase rotation and summation procedures on a smart device. To evaluate the performance of the proposed PRBF-POST method, the pointspread functions of PRBF-CON and PRBF-POST methods were compared each other. Also, the frame rate of each PRBF method was measured 20-times to calculate the average frame rate and its standard deviation. As a result, the PRBFCON and PRBF-POST methods indicates identical beamforming performance in the Field-II simulation (correlation coefficient = 1). Also, the proposed PRBF-POST method indicates the consistent frame rate for varying number of channels (i.e., 44.25, 44.32, and 44.35 fps for 16, 64, and 128 channels, respectively), while the PRBF-CON method shows the decrease of frame rate as the number of channel increase (39.73, 13.19, and 3.8 fps). These results indicate that the proposed PRBF-POST method can be more advantageous for implementing the wireless US imaging system than the PRBF-CON method.

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Minsuk Park, Jeeun Kang, Gunho Lee, Min Kim, and Tai-Kyong Song "A new post-phase rotation based dynamic receive beamforming architecture for smartphone-based wireless ultrasound imaging", Proc. SPIE 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 97901V (1 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216705

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