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Ultrasonography is widely used for tissue imaging and blood flow assessment thanks to its important advantages in terms of performance, cost and safety. High frame rate 2-D vector blood flow imaging is an innovative method that delivers accurate two-dimensional velocity maps but requires time consuming algorithms, which has limited real-time applications so far. In this paper, a GPU based implementation of the technique is proposed and its speed compared to previous implementations addressed to rapidly process 2-D vector data. The results obtained by using optimized code and massive parallel computation devices, confirm that the method is suitable for real-time applications in the near future.
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The authors are grateful to Prof. Piero Tortoli for providing valuable suggestions and guidelines in this work.
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Rossi, S., Lenge, M., Dallai, A., Ramalli, A., Boni, E. (2019). Toward the Real Time Implementation of the 2-D Frequency-Domain Vector Doppler Method. In: Saponara, S., De Gloria, A. (eds) Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 573. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11973-7_16
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