The new efficient multi-beamforming method based on multiple-access register block on a post-fractional filtering architecture

Jeeun Kang; Giduck Kim; Changhan Yoon; Yangmo Yoo; Tai-Kyong Song

doi:10.1117/12.878865

25 March 2011 The new efficient multi-beamforming method based on multiple-access register block on a post-fractional filtering architecture

Jeeun Kang, Giduck Kim, Changhan Yoon, Yangmo Yoo, Tai-Kyong Song

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Proceedings Volume 7968, Medical Imaging 2011: Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy; 796815 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878865
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

In medical ultrasound imaging, a multi-beamforming (MBF) method is used for supporting high frame rate imaging or functional imaging where multiple scanlines are reconstructed from a single excitation event. For efficient MBF, a time-sharing technique (i.e., MBF-TS) can be applied. However, the MBF-TS could degrade image quality due to the decreased beamforming frequency. In this paper, the multi-access register-based MBF (MBF-MAR) method running on the post-fractional filtering (PFF) architecture is presented. In PFF-MBF-MAR, instead of lowering beamforming frequency, a multi-access register at each channel is utilized for generating multiple scanlines simultaneously. To evaluate the performance of the proposed PFF-MBF-MAR method, the phantom experiment was conducted where 64- channel pre-beamformed radio-frequency (RF) data were captured from a tissue mimicking phantom by using a modified commercial ultrasound system (SONOLINE G40, Siemens Inc., USA) using a 3-MHz phased array probe. From the phantom experiment, the PFF-MBF-MAR method showed 4.7 dB and 0.6 improvements in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), respectively, compared to the PFF-MBF-TS method, while slightly increasing the hardware complexity (<5.2%). The similar results were achieved with the in vivo thyroid data. These results indicate that the proposed PFF-MBF-MAR method can be used for high frame rate imaging or functional imaging without sacrificing image quality while slightly increasing the hardware complexity.

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Jeeun Kang, Giduck Kim, Changhan Yoon, Yangmo Yoo, and Tai-Kyong Song "The new efficient multi-beamforming method based on multiple-access register block on a post-fractional filtering architecture", Proc. SPIE 7968, Medical Imaging 2011: Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy, 796815 (25 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878865

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