TY - GEN
T1 - A PC-based fully-programmable medical ultrasound imaging system using agraphics processing unit
AU - Kim, Seokhyun
AU - Sohn, Hak Yeol
AU - Chang, Jin Ho
AU - Song, Tai Kyoung
AU - Yoo, Yangmo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In this paper, a PC-based fully-programmable medical ultrasound imagingsystem is presented where a high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) isutilized to perform entire ultrasound processing. In the proposed architecture,ultrasound signal and image processing algorithms were divided into four modulesand efficiently implemented on the NVIDA's Computer Unified Device Architecture(CUDA) platform (GeForce GTX285, NVIDA, Santa Clara, CA, USA). To evaluate thereal-time performance of the proposed architecture, 64-channel, 128-scanlinepre-beamformed radio-frequency (RF) data were captured with a commercialultrasound machine (G40, Siemens Healthcare, Mountain View, CA, USA). Theexecution time was measured by examining the time stamp produced by a CIDAtimer. For generating a 800600 ultrasound B-mode image, it takes 18.32 ms forsingle-beam based ultrasound processing with the acquisition time of 19.7 ms.These results indicate that the GPU-based fully-programmable system architecturecan support real-time ultrasound signal and image processing.
AB - In this paper, a PC-based fully-programmable medical ultrasound imagingsystem is presented where a high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) isutilized to perform entire ultrasound processing. In the proposed architecture,ultrasound signal and image processing algorithms were divided into four modulesand efficiently implemented on the NVIDA's Computer Unified Device Architecture(CUDA) platform (GeForce GTX285, NVIDA, Santa Clara, CA, USA). To evaluate thereal-time performance of the proposed architecture, 64-channel, 128-scanlinepre-beamformed radio-frequency (RF) data were captured with a commercialultrasound machine (G40, Siemens Healthcare, Mountain View, CA, USA). Theexecution time was measured by examining the time stamp produced by a CIDAtimer. For generating a 800600 ultrasound B-mode image, it takes 18.32 ms forsingle-beam based ultrasound processing with the acquisition time of 19.7 ms.These results indicate that the GPU-based fully-programmable system architecturecan support real-time ultrasound signal and image processing.
KW - Graphics processing unit
KW - beamforming
KW - programmable ultrasound imagingsystem
KW - real-time processing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80054058570
U2 - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935662
DO - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935662
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80054058570
SN - 9781457703829
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
SP - 314
EP - 317
BT - 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2010
Y2 - 11 October 2010 through 14 October 2010
ER -