A column-row-parallel ultrasound imaging architecture for 3d plane-wave imaging and Tx 2nd-order harmonic distortion (HD2) reduction

Author

Kailiang Chen ; Byung Chul Lee ; Thomenius, Kai ; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T. ; Hae-Seung Lee ; Sodini, Charlie G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

320

Abstract

We propose a Column-Row-Parallel (CRP) architecture for integrated and low-power 3D medical ultrasound imaging applications. CRP offers linear-scaling interconnection, acquisition and programming time, while supporting rich functionality and fault-tolerance against possible transducer element defects. A 16×16 CMUT-ASIC CRP imaging system is fabricated and assembled to demonstrate the highly versatile architecture. 3D plane-wave coherent compounding on CRP facilitates fast frame rate (62.5 volume/s), high quality 3D ultrasonic imaging. An interleaved checker board pattern with I&Q excitations is also demonstrated on CRP for tissue harmonic imaging, reducing CMUT 2nd harmonic distortion (HD2) emission by over 20dB.

Keywords

harmonic distortion; ultrasonic imaging; 3D plane-wave coherent compounding; 3D plane-wave imaging; Tx 2nd-order harmonic distortion reduction; column-row-parallel ultrasound imaging architecture; interleaved checker board pattern; linear-scaling interconnection; low-power 3D medical ultrasound imaging applications; transducer element defects; Apertures; Arrays; Biomedical imaging; Three-dimensional displays; Transducers; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2014.0078

Filename

6931780