雷达健康管理软件中的并行处理技术

中央BIT软件是专门针对雷达系统研制的在线健康管理软件;应对工程应用中的实时性要求,采用“多任务并行”思想进行内核数据处理流程设计。简要介绍了雷达中央BIT软件的功能和技术优势;描述了软件中定义的健康数据包的组织结构以及任务处理流程;围绕雷达健康数据包的并行处理技术,重点阐述了软件实现中的多任务数据管道、模块线程以及线程间的数据传递机制;提出了多任务并行处理的时间效用分析方法,以及针对实时性瓶颈的解决措施;工程实例分析结果表明该方法能够有效评价并指导并行处理方案设计。所提出的并行处理技术和分析方法,可为Windows平台上同类软件的研制提供借鉴。     

Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry

A new method of performing optical isotopic analysis of condensed samples in ambient air and at ambient pressure has been developed: Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry (LAMIS). The technique uses radiative transitions from molecular species either directly vaporized from a sample or formed by associative mechanisms of atoms or ions in a laser ablation plume. This method is an advanced modification of a known atomic emission technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The new method — LAMIS — can determine not only chemical composition but also isotopic ratios of elements in the sample. Isotopic measurements are enabled by significantly larger isotopic shifts found in molecular spectra relative to atomic spectra. Analysis can be performed from a distance and in real time. No sample preparation or pre-treatment is required. Detection of the isotopes of hydrogen, boron, carbon, and oxygen are discussed to illustrate the technique.     

声纳中具方向性宽带强干扰的实时抑制方法

声纳中具方向性的宽带强干扰严重影响远处舰船的检测。本文针对此问题,提出一种能实时抑制此类干扰的方法,它以保证干扰方向输出功率最小为约束条件,本文还研究了此方法对目标信号的性能影响情况。最后,通过对海试数据的处理,证明此方法在实践中比较有效。     

Research interface on a programmable ultrasound scanner

Motivation

Commercial ultrasound machines in the past did not provide the ultrasound researchers access to raw ultrasound data. Lack of this ability has impeded evaluation and clinical testing of novel ultrasound algorithms and applications.

Objectives

Recently, we developed a flexible ultrasound back-end where all the processing for the conventional ultrasound modes, such as B, M, color flow and spectral Doppler, was performed in software. The back-end has been incorporated into a commercial ultrasound machine, the Hitachi HiVision 5500. The goal of this work is to develop an ultrasound research interface on the back-end for acquiring raw ultrasound data from the machine.

Methods

The research interface has been designed as a software module on the ultrasound back-end. To increase the amount of raw ultrasound data that can be spooled in the limited memory available on the back-end, we have developed a method that can losslessly compress the ultrasound data in real time.

Results and discussion

The raw ultrasound data could be obtained in any conventional ultrasound mode, including duplex and triplex modes. Furthermore, use of the research interface does not decrease the frame rate or otherwise affect the clinical usability of the machine. The lossless compression of the ultrasound data in real time can increase the amount of data spooled by ∼2.3 times, thus allowing more than 6 s of raw ultrasound data to be acquired in all the modes. The interface has been used not only for early testing of new ideas with in vitro data from phantoms, but also for acquiring in vivo data for fine-tuning ultrasound applications and conducting clinical studies. We present several examples of how newer ultrasound applications, such as elastography, vibration imaging and 3D imaging, have benefited from this research interface. Since the research interface is entirely implemented in software, it can be deployed on existing HiVision 5500 ultrasound machines and may be easily upgraded in the future.

Conclusions

The developed research interface can aid researchers in the rapid testing and clinical evaluation of new ultrasound algorithms and applications. Additionally, we believe that our approach would be applicable to designing research interfaces on other ultrasound machines.     

光电经纬仪实时引导的实现

在由四台光电经纬仪与雷达组成的测量网络中,为了提高光电经纬仪实时捕获跟踪空间目标的能力,建立基于目标位置估计的实时引导系统.利用滑窗式最小二乘法将光电经纬仪实时交汇数据和雷达的实测数据进行互联,解算出目标的瞬时位置,经时延补偿后获得目标的位置估计,经坐标转换后实现光电经纬仪的实时引导.实时引导系统充分利用了所有测量站的测量信息,可提高引导数据的引导准确度和可靠性.试验结果表明,该方法快速提供的平滑引导数据,不仅能准确将目标引入光电经纬仪的视场,亦可为其他测量设备提供参考数据.