TY - JOUR
T1 - An ultrasound research interface for a clinical system
AU - Ashfaq, Mohammad
AU - Brunke, Shelby S.
AU - Dahl, Jeremy J.
AU - Ermert, Helmut
AU - Hansen, Christian
AU - Insana, Michael F.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received June 30, 2005; accepted February 22, 2006. S. S. Brunke would like to thank NCI for the funding of the URI under contract N01-CM-17004, as well as the efforts of Levin Nock as the Principal Investigator. M. Ashfaq, C. Hansen, and H. Ermert are with Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for High Frequency Engineering, Bochum, Germany. S. S. Brunke is with Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Innovations, Issaquah, WA (e-mail: [email protected]). M. F. Insana is with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bioengineering, Urbana, IL. J. J. Dahl is with Duke University, Biomedical Engineering, Durham, NC. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.109
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - Under a contract with the National Cancer Institute, we have developed a research interface to an ultrasound system. This ultrasound research interface (URI) is an optional feature providing several basic capabilities not normally available on a clinical scanner. The URI can store high-quality beamformed radio-frequency data to file for off-line processing. Also, through an integrated user interface, the user is provided additional control over the Bmode receive aperture and color flow ensemble size. A third major capability is the ability to record and playback macro flies. In this paper, we describe the URI and illustrate its use on three research examples: elastography, computed tomography, and spatial compounding.
AB - Under a contract with the National Cancer Institute, we have developed a research interface to an ultrasound system. This ultrasound research interface (URI) is an optional feature providing several basic capabilities not normally available on a clinical scanner. The URI can store high-quality beamformed radio-frequency data to file for off-line processing. Also, through an integrated user interface, the user is provided additional control over the Bmode receive aperture and color flow ensemble size. A third major capability is the ability to record and playback macro flies. In this paper, we describe the URI and illustrate its use on three research examples: elastography, computed tomography, and spatial compounding.
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U2 - 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.109
DO - 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.109
M3 - Article
C2 - 17036785
AN - SCOPUS:33845670495
SN - 0885-3010
VL - 53
SP - 1759
EP - 1770
JO - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
JF - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
IS - 10
ER -