• Journal of Information Processing Systems
• /
• 제15권4호
• /
• pp.820-832
• /
• 2019

Estimation of accurate blood volume flow in ultrasound Doppler blood flow spectrograms is extremely important for clinical diagnostic purposes. Blood volume flow measurements require the assessment of both the velocity distribution and the cross-sectional area of the vessel. Unfortunately, the existing volume flow estimation algorithms by ultrasound lack the velocity space distribution information in cross-sections of a vessel and have the problems of low accuracy and poor stability. In this paper, a new robust ultrasound volume flow estimation method based on multigate (RMG) is proposed and the multigate technology provides detail information on the local velocity distribution. In this method, an accurate double iterative flow velocity estimation algorithm (DIV) is used to estimate the mean velocity and it has been tested on in vivo data from carotid. The results from experiments indicate a mean standard deviation of less than 6% in flow velocities when estimated for a range of SNR levels. The RMG method is validated in a custom-designed experimental setup, Doppler phantom and imitation blood flow control system. In vitro experimental results show that the mean error of the RMG algorithm is 4.81%. Low errors in blood volume flow estimation make the prospect of using the RMG algorithm for real-time blood volume flow estimation possible.

• 전기전자학회논문지
• /
• 제25권4호
• /
• pp.634-643
• /
• 2021

본 논문에서는 실시간 SAR (synthetic aperture radar) 영상 생성을 위한 RDA (range Doppler algorithm)의 FPGA 기반 가속화 기법을 제안한다. RDA의 연산 과정인 거리 및 방위 압축 연산을 가속하기 위한 시스토릭 어레이 구조 기반 정합 필터와 RCM (range cell migration)을 보상해 주기 위한 고속의 sinc 보간 연산기의 하드웨어 구조를 제시하고, Xilinx Alveo FPGA에 다채널 커널 형태로 구현하여 가속을 진행하였다. 제안된 구조의 하드웨어를 사용하여 4096×4096 크기의 영상 생성시간을 측정한 결과, Nvidia RTX3090 GPU를 사용하여 SAR 영상을 생성하는 시간보다 약 2배 가속이 가능함을 확인하였다. 또한, 제안된 가속 하드웨어는 60,247개의 CLB LUT, 103,728개의 CLB register, 20개의 block RAM tile과 592개의 DPS로 구현 가능하며, 최대 동작속도는 312 MHz임을 확인하였다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
• /
• 제27권3호
• /
• pp.265-272
• /
• 2023

본 논문에서는 FMCW(Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 기반 실시간 영상 형성을 위해 RDA(Range Doppler Algorithm)의 GPU 가속 커널을 개발하였다. Host와 GPU device 사이의 데이터 전송 시간을 최소화하기 위해 pinned 메모리를 사용하였고, 데이터의 전송 횟수를 최소화하기 위해 모든 RDA 연산을 GPU에서 수행하도록 커널을 구성하였다. FMCW 드론 SAR 실험을 통해 데이터셋를 획득하였고, intel i7-9700K CPU, 32GB RAM과 Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU 환경에서 GPU의 가속 효과를 측정하였다. Host-device간 데이터 전송 시간을 포함했을 경우 CPU 대비 최대 3.41배 가속된 것으로 측정되었고, 데이터 전송 시간을 포함하지 않고 연산의 가속 효과만을 측정했을 때, 최대 156배 가속 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
• /
• 제21권1E호
• /
• pp.18-24
• /
• 2002

This paper discusses the development of an acoustic vector channel simulator for the performance analysis of an acoustic digital communication system. The channel simulator consists of transmission module, acoustic channel model, receiver, beamformer, and adaptive equalizer. The source signal (QPSK) is generated by the specified parameters. The transmitted signal generates multipath signals which have a different delay, amplitude and doppler frequency. The paper presents in details the approach to the performance analysis of an acoustic digital communication system according to the antenna structure and the various baseband signal processing techniques.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• /
• 제20권3호
• /
• pp.175-202
• /
• 2016

Ultrasound imaging is a widely used tool for visualizing human body's internal organs and quantifying clinical parameters. Due to its advantages such as safety, non-invasiveness, portability, low cost and real-time 2D/3D imaging, diagnostic ultrasound industry has steadily grown. Since the technology advancements such as digital beam-forming, Doppler ultrasound, real-time 3D imaging and automated diagnosis techniques, there are still a lot of demands for image quality improvement, faster and accurate imaging, 3D color Doppler imaging and advanced functional imaging modes. In order to satisfy those demands, mathematics should be used properly and effectively in ultrasound imaging. Mathematics has been used commonly as mathematical modelling, numerical solutions and visualization, combined with science and engineering. In this article, we describe a brief history of ultrasound imaging, its basic principle, its applications in obstetrics/gynecology, cardiology and radiology, domestic-industrial products, contributions of mathematics and challenging issues in ultrasound imaging.

• 전자공학회논문지B
• /
• 제33B권3호
• /
• pp.38-46
• /
• 1996

In this paper, a multi-velocity log system which uses ultrasonic pulsed doppler signal is developed. The output of the system is the absoluted velcocity of the ship. By using digitral signal processing, we get the vector velocity which displays the ship's speed about fore, aft, port and starboard. And this system give us the information about depth. This multi-velocity system has a large merit that is bottom and water track velocity. In addition, this has the high accuracy and can measure the water-depth according to the deep mode. And the fish finder, echo sounder or docking system will be made by applying the speed log system.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국음향학회 2004년도 추계학술발표대회논문집 제23권 2호
• /
• pp.487-490
• /
• 2004

OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 방식의 수중음향 데이터 통신시스템에서 도플러 편이(Doppler Shift)와 도플러 확산(Doppler Spread)의 영향을 완화하여 주파수 효율을 향상시킬 수 있는 수신신호처리 방안을 설계하고 해상에서 송수신 된 시험 데이터의 BER 로써 성능을 평가한다. 도플러 편이를 OFDM 심볼에 부가된 Cyclic Prefix 와 상관계수법을 통해 추정하였으며 도플러 확산에 의해 시간에 따라 변화하는 채널을 Time-Frequency 축상에서 $2\times1D$ MMSE 방식으로 추정한다. 해상실험 결과, $8kHz\~11kHz$ 의 전송대역을 사용 할 때 복호 전 전송률 3098bps, 송수신 소자간 거리 7km, SNR 15dB에서 약 $1\~3\%$의 BER이 추정된다.

• 한국항해학회지
• /
• 제20권3호
• /
• pp.85-95
• /
• 1996

In the velocimeter, the ultrasonic pulse signal is used for measuring the profile velocity of moving targets distributed in space because of the merits of its high distance resolution and harmless affect to the human body. The velocity reading in conventional ultrasonic pulsed velocimeter depends on the wave pattern reflecting the spatial distribution of scatters and includes observational error due to the signal processing of analyzing pulse signal. In this paper, we evaluate an influence of the received waveform of pulsed signal on the velocity information by setting a model. Subsequently, in order to improve the distance resolution and to obtain precise velocity information without the influence of the spatial distribution of scatterers, we propose a new method for the analysis of Doppler pulsed signal, in which the pulsed signal is transformed into a phase function with local data. Finally, it is confirmed that the performance of the velocimeter is more improved in the proposed method than in the conventional one.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
• /
• pp.294-296
• /
• 1988

The tomographic imaging that employs ultrasonic echos has achieved outstanding advances in recent years, and today, ultrasonic diagnostic equipment has become the tool that is absolutely indispensible for clinical operations. Meanwhile, the feasility of measuring blood flow in the heart and vessels by the use of Doppler effect in ultrasonic waves is a well known fact. With respect to the method of blood flow measurment, there are two kinds which employ continous wave and pulse wave doppler system. In this paper, we describe the measurment of Blood flow-turbulence using general purpose Digital Signal Processing Board which had been implemented for the purpose of real-time spectrum analyser. Blood flow-turbulence means the blood-flow behavior. And it's value proportional to the spectrum variance. Therefore mean frequency of blood signal and variance provide useful diagnostic information. We have applied to the major arteries and vein, obtained the information about the time dependent blood-flow behavior.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국소음진동공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회논문집
• /
• pp.397-402
• /
• 2003

The FM demodulation method for a bulk homodyne laser interferometer is presented. The Doppler frequency that represents the surface velocity of a vibrating object is obtained by using the bulk homodyne laser interferometer, and converted to the voltage signal by using the proposed analogue FM demodulation circuit. The DC offsets of the interferent signals that are obtained from the bulk homodyne interferometer are eliminated by using a simple subtraction. The new method for compensation of the asymmetry of each channels is presented. The light power variation of the interferometer is normalized by using the Auto Gain Controller(AGC). The proposed FM demodulation algorithm is proved by the theoretical method, and validated by the experimental results. In experiments, the proposed FM demodulation algorithm is compared with the conventional demodulation methods.