An architecture for high speed ultrasound image capture and real-time 3D reconstruction

Author

Sanei, Saeid ; Lee, Tracey K M

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Singapore Polytech., Singapore

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

326

Lastpage

330

Abstract

Non-invasive ultrasound imaging systems have been widely used in detection of various tissue abnormalities since they are safe and informative. In this project a special purpose transducer has been designed to work at 800 kHz for investigation of hard tissue abnormalities. Thirty-two piezoelectric components are used as both transmitters and receivers. At each time one transducer transmits while others receive. The data is used for 3D image reconstruction of small bones. The data capturing part together with the image reconstruction software have to be fast enough in order to provide a real time display for the physician. This paper focuses on the design of the front-end architecture

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; bone; image reconstruction; piezoelectric transducers; ultrasonic transducers; 800 kHz; bones; data capturing; hard tissue abnormalities; high speed ultrasound image capture; image reconstruction; image reconstruction software; noninvasive imaging systems; piezoelectric components; real-time 3D reconstruction; ultrasound transducer; Bones; Data acquisition; Frequency conversion; Hardware; Humans; Image reconstruction; Piezoelectric transducers; Signal processing; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Design, Test and Applications, 2002. Proceedings. The First IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Christchurch

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1453-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DELTA.2002.994640

Filename

994640