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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventor:
Sotir Filipov Ouzounov, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01); H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52046 (2013.01); A61B 8/065 (2013.01); A61B 8/42 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); G01S 7/5208 (2013.01); G01S 7/52025 (2013.01); G01S 7/52038 (2013.01); G01S 7/52077 (2013.01); G01S 7/52092 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01); G01S 15/8925 (2013.01); A61B 8/48 (2013.01); G01S 15/8993 (2013.01); H03M 3/458 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasound imaging system probe comprises an imaging transducer head and a reception circuit for processing received reflected ultrasound signals. The reception circuit comprises an analogue to digital sigma delta converter which comprises a closed loop which comprises a tunable band pass filter. This enables the analog to digital converter to process only the desired frequency band. The ADC conversion bandwidth and ENOB are in this way programmable giving a more efficient probe design, and also enabling analog to digital conversion early in the signal processing chain.