Table 1. Computation time for one A-line (μs) and display frame rate (fps) of a 512 × 512 pixels image based on different processing methods.
Processing method | Hardware dispersion compensation | Numerical dispersion compensation | |||
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Processing time (μs) | Frame rate (fps) | Processing time (μs) | Frame rate (fps) | ||
Linear interpolation + FFT | 6.64 | 296 | 10.9 | 179 | |
Cubic spline interpolation + FFT | 330 | 5.9 | 429 | 4.5 | |
NDFT | 1470 | 1.3 | 1635 | 1.2 | |
NFFT | 11.1 | 175 | 18.6 | 95 |