Multi-angle Plane-wave Beamforming Algorithm Based on CUDA.
10.3969/j.issn.1671-7104.2018.05.002
- Author:
Jibing WU
1
;
Yang JIAO
1
;
Delong ZHANG
1
;
Jie XU
1
;
Chen YANG
1
;
Yaoyao CUI
1
Author Information
1. Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215163.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
compute unified device architecture (CUDA);
parallel computing;
ultrasound imaging;
ultrasound plane-wave
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation
2018;42(5):317-320
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Multi-angle plane-wave beamforming algorithm is the basis of ultra-fast ultrasonic imaging. It can be used to improve the imaging frame rate and resolution of traditional focused ultrasound. However, the existing multi-angle plane-wave technology can not satisfy the real-time imaging requirements due to the huge amount of computation required by CPU. In this paper, We proposed a parallel processing method to reduce the computation time based on compute unified device architecture(CUDA). Simulation analysis and contrast experiment were conducted to verify its performance. Experimental results show that the execution time based on GPU is much less than that based on CPU, thus the computational speed is accelerated significantly to satisfy the demand of ultrafast imaging.
