Straight from RF to 3D ultrasound image reconstruction

3D Ultrasound has recently been a routine imaging modality for medical diagnosing and in other bioscience fields. Compared to the conventional method where 2D images are used to represent a 3D anatomy, clinicians base upon their experience, build the 3D anatomy mentally. This approach has many short comings where 3D ultrasound has well addressed, but with high computational burden. Discussed in this paper is an alternative method to achieve 3D ultrasound image with less processing time and minimum memory usage, while preserving the raw quality of the images. Experimental 3D ultrasound image reconstruction was done using standard simulated phantom and results were compared to the traditional method. It demonstrated that the proposed method reconstructed 3D ultrasound image with less time and decreased in memory consumption.