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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1990
Dietrich Hassler, Uttenreuth, DE;
Guenter Temme, Spardorf, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
An ultrasound apparatus has a first group of transmission and reception channels that are respectively allocated to elementary transducer in the active aperture of a connectable transducer array. The central transmission location generated by a transmission channel and the reception location sampled by a reception channel coincide and lie on the allocated elementary transducer. In addition, a second group of transmission and/or reception channels is present, each being respectively simultaneously connectable to a plurality of elementary transducers via transmission and/or reception transfer stages for generating a virtual transmission and/or reception location that lies between the elementary transducers.