Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.

Medison Co., Ltd.

Hong Gyo Lee

Jin Pil Kim

Ronald Elvin Daigle

Sang Mok Lee

Ra Young Yoon

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus according to a disclosed embodiment comprises: a recognition information receiver for receiving recognition information from a probe; an input device for receiving a selection signal for the probe from a user; a probe select assembly (PSA) board including a connection module which is capable of mounting a probe connection module and a printed circuit board (PCB) which can electrically be connected to the probe connection module; and a controller for controlling the PSA board such that the probe connection module is connected to the PCB on the basis of the selection signal, and for controlling the probe on the basis of the connection between the probe connection module and the PCB.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method for controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

A transmit/receive isolation for an ultrasound system to block a high voltage transmit signal from being propagated to a receiving unit during a transmission period of an ultrasound signal is disclosed. An ultrasound system includes a switching unit coupled to a transmitting unit, a ultrasound probe and a receiving unit. The switching unit includes diode bridges and a switching module having pairs of switches connected to the respective diode bridges, wherein each pair of switches is configured to perform switching between a plus voltage and a minus voltage to forward-bias a corresponding diode bridge to allow a respective receive signal to be propagated to the receiving unit in a first state and to reverse-bias the corresponding diode bridge to block a respective transmit signal to be propagated to the receiving unit in a second state.

Transmit/receive isolation for an ultrasound system

The present invention relates to transmit apodization using a sinc function in an ultrasound system. The ultrasound system includes: a transmission unit operable to generate transmit pulse signals with transmit apodization applied by using a sinc function; a probe operable to generate ultrasound signals based on the transmit pulse signals to thereby form a transmit beam and transmit the transmit beam along a predetermined scan line among a plurality of scan lines in a target object, the probe being further operable to receive ultrasound echoes reflected from the target object; and a reception unit operable to form receive signals corresponding to a plurality of scan lines based on the ultrasound echoes.

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Seoul, South Korea

Hong Gyo Lee