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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kiven Plesset, Wallingford, CT (US);
Darwin P Adams, Guilford, CT (US);
Assignee:
Picker Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128660 ; 73626 ;
Abstract
An electronically step scanned real time ultrasonic imaging system and method is disclosed. The system includes a transducer assembly having an array of elements, each with an axis of transmission along which it transmits its main ultrasonic energy when electrically stimulated. The elements are disposed in a curvilinear array, wherein their axes of transmission are approximately coplanar, but divergent in the common plane. This configuration provides a relatively large scanned area without need for either electronic or mechanical sector scanning techniques to steer the incident ultrasonic energy over a large angle.