Computed volume sonography

摘要

A system performs ultrasound parameter estimation at specific advantageous sets of points in a two- or three-dimensional field of view within re-configurable, massively parallel, programmable architectures. A power efficient system is used for processing the data, thereby increasing the ability of the system for mobile ultrasound applications. Various architectural aspects provide the ability to simultaneously accept a large number of channels of data characterized by a continuous, simultaneous flow at high sample rates. The input data is routed at high rates to a distributed and large number of processing elements, memory, and connections for simultaneous parameter estimation at multiple points in the field of view, thereby enabling data streaming through the architecture.

主权项

1. A method for creating sonographic images, the method comprising:
processing transduced data from a single ensonification sequence using one or more massively parallel processors formed from a plurality of processors in communication with each other, the processing including—
replicating echo signals from a portion of the data from the single ensonification sequence to form multiple simultaneous display images by simultaneous beam forming along multiple surfaces, wherein the beam forming occurs a individual points on each surface that are mapped directly to corresponding pixels on a display, and wherein the data for each pixel is beam formed at a single point on the surface; andproviding pre-determined and default processing information to the one or more individual massively parallel processors from a control interface to allow one or more different surfaces to be presented concurrently.