TY - GEN
T1 - A new smart probe system for a tablet PC-based point-of-care ultrasound imaging system
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2014
AU - Lee, Yeongnam
AU - Kang, Jeeun
AU - Yeo, Sunmi
AU - Lee, Jaejin
AU - Kim, Gi Duck
AU - Yoo, Yangmo
AU - Song, Tai Kyong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/20
Y1 - 2014/10/20
N2 - There is a growing interest in a hand-held ultrasound (US) system for a point-of-care diagnosis. In this paper, we present the hand-held smart US probe system, which includes analog and digital front-ends, mid-processor, and interface. In the analog front-end, 16 channels could be implemented using two eight-channel high-voltage pulsers and analog-to-digital converters (ADC). The following digital front-end was implemented using a single low-cost field programmable gate array chip (FPGA). The output data from the digital front-end are transferred to the commercial tablet PC via the USB 3.0 interface. The tablet PC performs the back-end processing and image display on a graphical user interface (GUI). The smart probe system developed can provide the real-time B-mode images up to 22 Hz of frame rate with 7 W of estimated maximum power consumption. The weight and dimension of the developed system are 73 g and 150 × 40 × 10 mm3 in length, width, and height, respectively. To evaluate the performance of the proposed smart probe system, the phantom and in vivo experiments were conducted.
AB - There is a growing interest in a hand-held ultrasound (US) system for a point-of-care diagnosis. In this paper, we present the hand-held smart US probe system, which includes analog and digital front-ends, mid-processor, and interface. In the analog front-end, 16 channels could be implemented using two eight-channel high-voltage pulsers and analog-to-digital converters (ADC). The following digital front-end was implemented using a single low-cost field programmable gate array chip (FPGA). The output data from the digital front-end are transferred to the commercial tablet PC via the USB 3.0 interface. The tablet PC performs the back-end processing and image display on a graphical user interface (GUI). The smart probe system developed can provide the real-time B-mode images up to 22 Hz of frame rate with 7 W of estimated maximum power consumption. The weight and dimension of the developed system are 73 g and 150 × 40 × 10 mm3 in length, width, and height, respectively. To evaluate the performance of the proposed smart probe system, the phantom and in vivo experiments were conducted.
KW - Point of care
KW - Smart probe
KW - ultrasound imaging system
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84910077613
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84910077613#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2014.0399
DO - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2014.0399
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84910077613
T3 - IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
SP - 1611
EP - 1614
BT - IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 3 September 2014 through 6 September 2014
ER -