Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Q-dot, Inc.

Lyle Whelchel

Charles S Desilets

Thomas E Linnenbrink

Robert Mesaros

Yas Matsui

Robert A Lincoln

Marshall K Quick

Timothy G O'Shaughnessy

R Carver Anderson

Thomas K Bohley

Jack Collins

An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided in which the scanhead connectors are elevated and tilted upward. This is provided by a tilted card cage with a backplane mount for the scanhead connectors which extends above the top of the card cage. The elevated and tilted scanhead connectors provide a comfortable position and orientation for the system operator when inserting and removing probe connectors, and the elevated position keeps the probe cables well above the floor and entanglement with the wheels.

Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with elevated and tilted scanhead connectors

An acoustic/video processing stack of a plurality of substantially identical acoustic/video processing stacks is provided for attachment to a processing stack backplane and which together generate a VGA signal for display of a three-dimensional acoustic image. The acoustic/video processing stack includes a two-dimensional array of transducer elements, a companion chip block coupled to and adapted to transceive acoustic signals under a time-division multiplexed format through the transducer elements and to provide a portion of the VGA signal together generated by the plurality of acoustic/video processing stacks and a backing block disposed between the two-dimensional array and companion chip block and adapted to acoustically isolate the two-dimensional transducer array from the companion chip block, said companion chip block and backing block being of a size and diameter substantially the same as the two-dimensional transducer array.

Acoustic lens-based swimmer's sonar

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Snohomish, WA, United States of America

Lyle Whelchel