Ultrasound system employing a unified memory

Details Ultrasound system employing a unified memory Ultrasound system employing a unified memory

1999-04-05

2000-08-22

Jaworski, Francis J.

Surgery

Diagnostic testing

Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation

A61B 800

Patent

active

061064688

ABSTRACT:
An ultrasound system incorporating the invention includes a front end that converts ultrasound backscatter signals to lines of digital data values. Those data values are then fed, under control of a front end controller, to plural processing modules which convert them into video displayable data. A memory is utilized to store processed results of each of the plural processing modules and operates as a shared memory that enables the various processing modules to communicate data therebetween. A memory controller enables each respective one of the plural processing modules to access processed results from the shared memory that were stored therein by a processing module whose function preceded, in time, the processing module performing the access. Thereafter, the processing module operates upon the data and writes it back to the shared memory, for use by a succeeding one of the plural processing modules.

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