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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth R. Erikson, Henniker, NH (US);
Assignee:
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration INC, Nashua, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/14 ;
Abstract
A transducer probe has a fully populated, integrated, matrix array of acoustical transducers for ultrasound imaging. The transducer arrays include tiled subarrays of transducers which may be switched (e.g., in real-time) between vertical and horizontal modes, and may further be configured to perform a first level of transmit and receive beam forming functionality with either horizontal or vertical scanning. Example applications include medical imaging, materials testing, and sonar systems.