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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1996
Barry Friemel, Issaquah, WA (US);
John Klepper, Seattle, WA (US);
Wolf DeLong, Erlangen, DE;
Rodney Boleyn, East Windsor, NJ (US);
Ekkehard Blanz, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Abdelaziz Chihoub, Plainsborough, NJ (US);
Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ (US);
Abstract
An ultrasound medical imaging system having a flexible, versatile and programmable architecture, particularly with respect to a back end subsystem. The architecture for the back end subsystem is generalized and includes multiple identical and interchangeable processing elements or boards that combine to produce sufficient processing power to support real time imaging in the various modes of ultrasound operations. The architecture may also tune front end parameters for a front end subsystem based on back end processing, bypass faulty processing elements or boards, and/or distribute processing load across operational processing elements or boards. A method for operating such an ultrasound medical imaging system is also disclosed.