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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lauren S Pflugrath, Seattle, WA (US);
Leo R Catallo, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Juin-Jet Hwang, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Assignee:
ATL Ultrasound, Bothell, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600447 ;
Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided with scanheads having a reduced size cable by virtue of the performance of at least some of the beamforming in the scanhead. The need to individually couple signals from all of the elements of the transducer array of the scanhead is eliminated, and the size of the scanhead cable correspondingly reduced, by the coupling of combined, beamformed signals through the cable to an ultrasound system.