GPU-based minimum variance beamformer for synthetic aperture imaging of the eye

BYS Yiu, CH Alfred - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Minimum variance (MV) beamforming has emerged as an adaptive apodization approach to
bolster the quality of images generated from synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging methods …

Receive Beamforming in Medical Ultrasound---A Review of Aperture Data Processing

R Göbl - Authorea Preprints, 2023 - techrxiv.org
This review focuses on ultrasound beamforming methods, a crucial step in the process of
ultrasound image formation. With the shift towards software-based receive beamforming in …

Software-based high-level synthesis design of FPGA beamformers for synthetic aperture imaging

J Amaro, BYS Yiu, G Falcao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can potentially be configured as beamforming
platforms for ultrasound imaging, but a long design time and skilled expertise in hardware …

Grating lobe mitigation based on extended coherence factor in sparse MIMO UWB array

J Hu, G Zhu, T Jin, B Lu, Z Zhou - 2014 12th International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) ultra-wideband (UWB) array systems are
restricted to a limited array with limited antenna elements and thus suffer from the azimuth …

Grating/side lobes mitigation in sparse UWB MIMO array

J Hu, G Zhu, T Jin, Z Zhou - 2015 16th International Radar …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With finite aperture size and limited antenna number, sparse ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple-
input-multiple-output (MIMO) array based imaging radar suffers from azimuth side/grating …