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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 1984
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul D Sorenson, Blaine, MN (US);
Dale A Dickson, Fridley, MN (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128660 ; 73625 ;
Abstract
An ultrasound scanning system particularly adapted for scanning large body areas such as the back. There is a plurality of ultrasound transducers, each mounted in a transducer shoe, and each shoe in turn mounted on a plunger which seats in the bore of a housing so that it is free to move independently from the other transducers in a direction parallel to the bore, but is constrained to move with the other transducers in the two perpendicular directions. A spring seated in the bore between the housing and the plunger provides a bias force to maintain a positive and uniform contact between the transducer and the back.