Ultrasound computed tomography his paper designs and implements a high throughout, extensible and flexible ultrasound excitation and data acquisition system that transmits sustained high-speed ultrasound data to the server by Ethernet technology. The system is mainly used for the second-generation ultrasound computed tomography system designed in the medical ultrasound lab, but can also be utilized by other types of ultrasound imaging systems. The system consists of one or more ultrasonic excitation and acquisition boards. Each board includes multiplexing switches, pulse generators with T/R switches, analog front ends, analog-to-digital converters, and an FPGA, and can be used to excite a 256-element probe to transmit and receive ultrasound signals. The peak and the average bandwidth of one single board are 44.8Gbps and 4Gbps, respectively. Potential users can combine several excitation and acquisition boards to build high-end ultrasound imaging systems. The system has been applied to upgrade our ultrasound computed tomography system.
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is a 3D imaging tool, especially for breast screening. Sound-speed tomography as one imaging modal of USCT is widely studied by researchers because of its great clinical potential for early breast cancer detection. Sound-speed reconstruction methods include ray-based methods and wave-based methods. In this study, a ray-based method for sound speed reconstruction: Fresnel volume tomography (FVT) is implemented. We use Limitedmemory Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (L-BFGS) optimization algorithm to solve the large and sparse equation for the inversion step. Considering the great computation burden in the L-BFGS inversion process, two kinds of acceleration schemes: CPU parallel and GPU parallel schemes are used and evaluated by in vitro experiment. The corresponding acceleration ratios are 5.3 and 18.6 for the 512×512 sound speed image reconstruction, compared to CPU serial computation.
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