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Main Authors: Palamar, Randy, Dahunsi, Darren, Henry, Tyler, Sobhani, Mohammad Rahim, Zemp, Roger
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11086
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author Palamar, Randy
Dahunsi, Darren
Henry, Tyler
Sobhani, Mohammad Rahim
Zemp, Roger
author_facet Palamar, Randy
Dahunsi, Darren
Henry, Tyler
Sobhani, Mohammad Rahim
Zemp, Roger
contents Research ultrasound platforms have enabled many next-generation imaging sequences but have lacked realtime navigation capabilities for emerging 2D arrays such as row-column arrays (RCAs). We present an open-source, GPU-accelerated reconstruction and rendering software suite integrated with a programmable ultrasound platform and novel electrostrictive Top-Orthogonal-to-Bottom-Electrode (TOBE) arrays. The system supports advanced real-time modes, including cross-plane aperture-encoded synthetic-aperture imaging and aperture-encoded volumetric scanning. TOBE-enabled methods demonstrate improved image quality and expanded field of view compared with conventional RCA techniques. The software implements beamforming and rendering kernels using OpenGL compute shaders and is designed for maximum data throughput helping to minimize stalls and latency. Accompanying sample datasets and example scripts for offline reconstruction are provided to facilitate external testing.
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spellingShingle An Open Source Realtime GPU Beamformer for Row-Column and Top Orthogonal to Bottom Electrode (TOBE) Arrays
Palamar, Randy
Dahunsi, Darren
Henry, Tyler
Sobhani, Mohammad Rahim
Zemp, Roger
Image and Video Processing
Research ultrasound platforms have enabled many next-generation imaging sequences but have lacked realtime navigation capabilities for emerging 2D arrays such as row-column arrays (RCAs). We present an open-source, GPU-accelerated reconstruction and rendering software suite integrated with a programmable ultrasound platform and novel electrostrictive Top-Orthogonal-to-Bottom-Electrode (TOBE) arrays. The system supports advanced real-time modes, including cross-plane aperture-encoded synthetic-aperture imaging and aperture-encoded volumetric scanning. TOBE-enabled methods demonstrate improved image quality and expanded field of view compared with conventional RCA techniques. The software implements beamforming and rendering kernels using OpenGL compute shaders and is designed for maximum data throughput helping to minimize stalls and latency. Accompanying sample datasets and example scripts for offline reconstruction are provided to facilitate external testing.
title An Open Source Realtime GPU Beamformer for Row-Column and Top Orthogonal to Bottom Electrode (TOBE) Arrays
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11086