A digital MRI RF-receiver using an ordinary GPU
Annalena Erbrecht1, Enrico Pannicke1, and Christoph Dinh1
1Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Our studies
showed that a CIC based decimation filter is suitable to realize a digital MRI
console which requires low calculation effort and high noise attenuation. This
filter can be used to directly convert the acquired signal to the k-space.
Figure
1: Block diagram of an MRI RF-receiver
Figure 2:
Block diagram of a five stages CIC filter combined with a compensation filter