Purchase of a Portable Ultrasound Research System

Description

DTU requires a programmable ultrasound research scanner with appropriate support. The research scanner should support GE probes and be programmable through a Matlab interface. Support for the C++ programming interface would be a plus. The system should also provide a trigger output to synchronize with other external devices. In terms of the transmit front end, the system should have at least 128 transmit channels with programmable transmit waveform. The transmit voltage should be adjustable from 5Vpp to 100 Vpp. It is important that the system can support probes with more than 128 elements. As for the receive end, the system must have at least 64 parallel re-ceive channels sampling at 40 MHz or more. The system needs to give access to the raw channel RF data for each channel, and the data need to be streamed to a host PC for processing at 32 Gbps or more transfer rate through a PCIe connection. The receive gain should be at least 48 dB and be programmable.