In general, the receive beamforming units are restricted to a single beamforming scheme which is generally delay and sum (DAS) beamforming.
In this work a novel reconfigurable beamforming core is proposed which can switch between delay and sum (DAS) beamforming and delay multiply and sum (DMAS) beamforming.
Regions of more clinical prominence could be reconstructed through DMAS and less prominent regions with DAS .
Journals
Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, “Towards A Pixel-Level Reconfigurable Digital Beamforming Core for Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging,” in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 14, no. 3 (2020): 570-582.https://doi.org/10.1109/TBCAS.2020.2983759 [pdf]
Conferences
Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, “VLSI architectures for Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming in Ultrasound Medical Imaging,” in Proc. of IEEE SPCOM 2020, Bangalore, July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM50965.2020.9179510
