Abstract
Access to channel data, and real-time processing of such, have left us a landscape filled with beamforming techniques often using specific wavefronts with specific reconstruction algorithms. This implies high costs for code maintenance and makes it difficult to compare different techniques. We demonstrate a generalized beamformer (GB) to reconstruct any transmit (tx) waveform from any probe into a defined grid of pixels. It covers linear and sector scans, both steered and stepped tx and even complex beamforming such as multiple line acquisition (MLA) and retrospective tx beamforming (RTB). Also, we show how the GB can be utilized to improve the channel data used for adaptive beamforming.