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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Amin M. Hanafy, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Acuson Coporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/700 ; A61B 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/700 ; A61B 8/00 ;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a two-dimensional ultrasound transducer array is provided in which the transducer array is formed by a plurality of transducer elements sequentially arranged in the azimuth direction and each transducer element has a non-uniform thickness and each transducer is divided into a left and a right half which can be independently excited.