Hardware architectures for real-time medical imaging

E Alcaín, PR Fernandez, R Nieto, AS Montemayor… - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Medical imaging is considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine
and has become an essential part of the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Earlier …

RNS-based FPGA accelerators for high-quality 3D medical image wavelet processing using scaled filter coefficients

NN Nagornov, PA Lyakhov, MV Valueva… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical imaging using different modalities has many problems. The main ones are low
informativeness, various distortion noises, and a large amount of information. Fusion …

Design, development, and multi-characterization of an integrated clinical transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic device for human prostate imaging

S Agrawal, K Johnstonbaugh, JY Clark, JD Raman… - Diagnostics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The standard diagnostic procedure for prostate cancer (PCa) is transrectal ultrasound
(TRUS)-guided needle biopsy. However, due to the low sensitivity of TRUS to cancerous …

Implementation and comparison of three image reconstruction algorithms in FPGA toward palm-size photoacoustic tomography

Z Gao, Y Shen, D Jiang, Y Zheng, F Liu… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has been widely applied in both preclinical and clinical
applications. With a significantly increasing number of data acquisition channels, fast high …

An improved CMUT structure enabling release and collapse of the plate in the same Tx/Rx cycle for dual-frequency acoustic angiography

MM Mahmud, X Wu, JL Sanders… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study demonstrates, in detail, the potential of using capacitive micromachined
ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) for acoustic angiography of the microvasculature. It is …

Photoacoustic imaging for guidance of interventions in cardiovascular medicine

S Iskander-Rizk, AFW Van Der Steen… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging guidance is paramount to procedural success in minimally invasive interventions.
Catheter-based therapies are the standard of care in the treatment of many cardiac …

Dual-modal photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging: from preclinical to clinical applications

N Nyayapathi, E Zheng, Q Zhou, M Doyley… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Photoacoustic imaging is a novel biomedical imaging modality that has emerged over the
recent decades. Due to the conversion of optical energy into the acoustic wave …

Adaptive Image Reconstruction for Optoacoustic Tomography: A Partial FPGA Reconfiguration Approach

F Villani, Ç Özsoy, C Vogt, A Cossettini… - IEEE Sensors …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Widespread clinical adoption of optoacoustic tomography (OAT) depends on technological
advancements in handheld probes that can offer immediate image feedback during the …

Investigation on design theory and performance analysis of vacuum capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer

X Huang, H Wang, L Yu - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT), as a new acoustic-electric
conversion element, has a promising application prospect. In this paper, the structure of the …

Single-shot near-field volumetric imaging system for optical ultrasound and photoacoustics using capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer without transmission …

WY Choi, SW Kwon, YH Kim, KC Kang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a single-shot dualmode imaging system that uses optical
ultrasound (US) as an ultrasonic pulser without a transmission circuit. The ultrasonic pulse …