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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1999
Joseph A. Urbano, Audubon, PA (US);
Christopher B. Knell, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Kevin S. Randall, Ambler, PA (US);
Andrew J. Wood, Mt. Holly, NJ (US);
Joseph A. Urbano, Audubon, PA (US);
Christopher B. Knell, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Kevin S. Randall, Ambler, PA (US);
Andrew J. Wood, Mt. Holly, NJ (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A medical diagnostic ultrasound system comprises several subsystems, such as a transmit beamformer, a receive beamformer, a B-mode processor, a Doppler processor and a scan converter. These subsystems are within the ultrasound data processing path for processing ultrasound data. One or more of these subsystems are implemented with one or more re-programmable logic devices. For example, one or two field programmable gate arrays are used is each subsystem to perform most or almost all of the subsystems essential functionality.