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Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 24, 2019
Applicant:

Volcano Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventor:

Paul Douglas Corl, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); H03K 19/17728 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 8/0891 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); G01S 15/892 (2013.01); G01S 15/8997 (2013.01); H03K 19/17728 (2013.01);
Abstract

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuit including a quadrature internal conditioning circuit is provided. The circuit having a buffer circuit; and a reconstruction engine circuit, wherein the reconstruction engine circuit includes: a circuit to measure a phase of a signal; and a flavor interpolation circuit; wherein: the circuit to measure the phase of a signal includes digitization points forming two complex numbers for each cycle of the center frequency of the signal. A system for collecting tissue images including a patient interface module (PIM); a pulse transmitter circuit; an analog to digital converter circuit; and an FPGA circuit as above; and a catheter having a sensing head is also provided. A method for using the above system to provide an image reconstruction is also provided.


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