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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2003
Applicants:
Geir Ultveit Haugen, Oslo, NO;
Kjell Kristoffersen, Oslo, NO;
Douglas Glenn Wildes, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Inventors:
Geir Ultveit Haugen, Oslo, NO;
Kjell Kristoffersen, Oslo, NO;
Douglas Glenn Wildes, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sub-aperture transceiver system for an ultrasound probe includes a signal processor, receive signal connections connecting the signal processor to a receive aperture comprising acoustic transceiver elements, and transmit signal connections coupled to a transmit aperture that includes at least one acoustic transceiver element multiplexed with the receive aperture.