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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
David Andrew Fish, Worthing, GB;
Gerardus Johannus Jacobus Maria Arnoldussen, Eindhoven, NL;
Sotir Filipov Ouzounov, Eindhoven, NL;
Emil Dimitrov Totev, Delft, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An ultrasound imaging system has an array of ultrasound transducers comprising a set of sub-arrays of transducers. Each transducer () has an analogue buffer (). Each sub-array of transducers has a signal path () from within the array of ultrasound transducers to outside the array of ultrasound transducers which comprises one or more hops between the buffers (). To reduce the signal line length from inside the array of ultrasound transducers to the periphery, at least some multiple hops between buffers () are provided. Each buffer hop introduces a delay, but prevents signal degradation so that a large number of analog signals can be transmitted across the large area ASIC of the transducer array.