General Electric Company

Michael Richard Moritz

Steven Charles Miller

Nicholas Ryan Konkle

Snehal Chandrakant Shah

Thomas Michael Corcoran

Michael J Horwath

Christopher Todd Ostram

A medical imaging system with a scanning subsystem configured to acquire imaging data is provided. Also provided is a controller configured to selectively control power to at least one component of the system based on a mode of operation of the scanning subsystem.

Method and apparatus for controlling power of an ultrasound system

An apparatus and method for electrical connection clamping are provided. The apparatus includes a connection arrangement having a top clamp section and a bottom clamp section. The connection arrangement further includes a stacked connector between the top clamp section and the bottom clamp section. The top clamp section and the bottom clamp section are configured to distribute a compression force along a plurality of points of the stacked connector.

Apparatus and method for electrical connection clamping

A beamformer for an ultrasound system and a method for developing a beamformer are provided. The beamformer includes an RF interface configured to be connected to receiver boards that are connected to a probe. The method includes providing receiver boards, wherein each of the receiver boards is capable of conveying a common number of channels per board and has substantially similar circuit components and layouts. The method also includes selecting a number of channels per probe to be conveyed in parallel between a probe and the receiver boards, wherein the channels per probe is an integer multiple of the channels per board. The method further includes determining a combination of the receiver boards to use in the beamformer based on the number of channels per probe, wherein the receiver boards are capable of being used in at least first and second different combinations that support first and second different numbers of channels per probe.

Ultrasound beamformer with scalable receiver boards

A medical imaging system is provided that includes a plurality of circuit boards configured to be tested using boundary scan test vectors. A controller of the medical imaging system is configured to test the plurality of circuit boards. The controller is further configured to access test profiles to perform boundary scan tests on the plurality of circuit boards based on the test profiles.

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Brookfield, WI, United States of America

Michael Richard Moritz