• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.85-92
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• 1984

A new architecture of the Digital Scan Converter (DSC) for the linear-scan ultrasound medical imaging systems is proposed and its hardware implementation is reported. While the conventional DSC merely displays the acquisited data and does nor allow access to the frame memory, it is possible, in the new system, to access to the frame memory for further imaging processing so as to obtain useful information for medical diagnosis. Image processing can be performed either by a special pupose processor, or by VAX 11/780. The system is made to operate asyncronously to increase the frame rate with tags assigned to the data. The proposed DSC was designed to be used without much modification for the sector scan system as well.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.419-431
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 디지털 스캔 컨버터(DSC, digital scan converter)에 의한 왜곡이 근본적으로 발생하지 않는 새로운 초음파 영상 방법으로서 표시장치의 화소에 직접 수신 집속하는 기법(DPBF, display-pixel-based focusing)과 이를 구현하기 위한 초음파 영상 장치의 구조를 제안한다. 제안한 기법은 극 좌표에 위치하는 샘플링 점들 대신에 직각좌표상의 화소들에 직접 수신 집속 함으로써 DSC의 역할을 제거하였다. DPBF 기법을 적용한 영상에는 DSC에 의한 허상 및 구획화 현상 등이 나타나지 않으며, 일반적인 방법에 의한 영상에 비해 보다 세밀한 영상을 제공한다는 사실을 검증할 수 있었다. 본 논문은 DSC에 의한 보간 효과가 두 개의 비교 영상 A, B 간에 미치는 정도를 정량적으로 평가하기 위해서 영상거침 비(ICRA/B, Image Coarseness Ratio)를 새로운 성능 측정 방법으로 정의하였다. 이 ICRA/B를 이용하여 비교 영상간 거친 정도를 정량적으로 측정하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.133-138
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• 1986

Abstract In a conventional digital sector scan system in the ultrasound medical imaging, the sampling space is in the polar coordinates while the display space is in the cartesian coordinates, which necessitates a coordinate transformation process resultion process resulting the overall system very complex and bulky. In this paper we propose a new architecture of the Digital-Scan-Converter (DSC) for the ultrasound sector scan system in which sampling space is the same as the display space, so the data are displayed as they are acquired without any interpola- tion process required. To implement the above real time DSC. two frequency synthesizes with very high switching time and a low-pass filter are required. The former determines the precise location of the data points and the latter fills the gap betw- een pixels in the horizontal direction.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.469-478
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• 1996

In the conventional digital ultrasound scanner, the reflected signal is sampled either in polar coordinates of R-$\theta$ method, or in Cartesian coordinates of uniform ladder algorithm (ULA). The R-$\theta$ scan method necessitates a coordinate transform process which makes hardware complex in comparison with ULA scan mrthoA In spite of this complexity, R-$\theta$ method has a good resolution in ultrasonographic (US) image, since scan direction of the US imaging is a radial direction. In this paper, a new digital scan converter is proposed, which is named the radius uniform ladder algorithm (RULA). The RULA has the rome scan direction as the US scanning in the radial direction and as the display space in the $\theta$ direction. In tllis new approach, sampled points we uniformly distributed in each horizontal line i.n well as in each radial ray so that the data are displayed in the Cartesian coordinates by the 1-D interpolation process. The propped algorithm has an uniform resolution in the periphery and the center field in comparison with equi-angle ULA and equi-interval ULA. To extend the scan angle, concentric square raster sampling (CSRS) is adopted with reduction of discontinuities on the junctions between horizontal scan and vertical scan. The discontinuities are reduced by using the hmction filtering along the $\theta$ direction.