The Advantage 2015 Upgrade for Vantage Systems
The Advantage 2015 Upgrade for Vantage systems provides
a wide array of powerful tools and technologies to improve
and enhance your research in ultrasound imaging. It is available
on all new Vantage systems and as a free upgrade
to all Vantage customers.
New Image Processing Tools to facilitate production
of clinical quality images
- New image processing control panel
- Includes several fast speckle reduction filters
- Image dynamic range improvements / new
compression options - All GUI control settings can be named, stored
and recalled as “Presets”
Clinical Quality B-Mode acquisition scripts included
- For all Verasonics probes (these can be readily modified by the user for other transducers)
- Scripts use a combination of classic and innovative methods, including: harmonic imaging, multiple-beam coherent compounding, and spatial compounding
More Realistic Simulation
- TGC controls active in simulation
- Tissue attenuation
- Heuristic Nonlinear Imaging
Improved data acquisition control
- More flexible specification of sampling and demodulation frequencies
- Improved automated design of RF data conditioning filters
- Built-in interleaved and bandwidth sampling options (for very high frequency imaging)
Improved Image Reconstruction Programming
and Execution
- No more dependence on classical Scan Format:
more flexibility in defining image regions - Faster frame rates (more efficient use of multi-threaded
parallel processing) - Automatic depth-dependent digital gain compensation
for medium attenuation - Now accepts arbitrary array element position
and orientation (for 3D array geometries)
New and Expanded Software Tools
to Facilitate Development
- Control Script Analysis Tool (helps to visualize
structure contents) - RF Filter Design and Visualization tool
- Analog Waveform Design Tool (Arbitrary Waveform Toolbox)
- Transmit Beam and Waveform Visualization Tool
- RF data viewer
- Transducer Element to I/O Channel to Connector Pinout
Information Tools - Shear Wave Generation and Visualization Example Script
- Multiple-System Synchronization Example Scripts
General Programming Interface Improvements
- Simplified installation process
- Easily preserve old software versions
- Simplified software directory structure
- No restriction on multiple user logins
- Simplified scripting structure definitions
