| Chapter title | Improved sigma-delta ultrasound beamformers with adaptive low-pass decimation filters |
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| Authors | Altinok, G., Al-Janabi, M., Kale, I. and Altinok, G. |
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| Abstract | Sigma-Delta (Σ-Δ) beamformers have been proposed to reduce hardware complexity of the phased array front-end circuitry in digital ultrasound imaging systems. However, the sample repetitions involved in dynamic focusing degrades the image quality due to the elevated noise level. Thus, conventional low-pass decimators are deemed to be insufficient to suppress the elevated in-band noise floor. This paper shows that, adaptive rank-order filters in combination with the low-pass decimators following the beam summation are adequate to suppress the in-band noise components. As a result, we propose a novel hardware efficient digital beamformer employing single-bit Σ-Δ modulators incorporated with adaptive reconstruction filters. Simulations using experimental phantom data sets have shown that the proposed structure ensures high quality B-scan images comparable to the ones obtained by multi-bit A/D beamformers by preserving the hardware simplicity of the conventional single-bit Σ-Δ beamformers. |
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| Book title | Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Hangzhou, China, 10-12 May 2011 |
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| Page range | 329-333 |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Publisher | IEEE |
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| Published | 2011 |
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| ISBN | 9781424479351 |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944358 |
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