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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
Applicant:
Radu Alexandru, Cheshire, CT (US);
Inventor:
Radu Alexandru, Cheshire, CT (US);
Assignee:
Aloka Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G03B 42/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound transducer having an array of elements and a beam origin located between two adjacent elements, each of the elements for converting received energy into an echo signal; and a beamformer that includes an initialization controller having initialization controller circuitry for calculating initialization parameters according to a process for calculating initialization parameters from a reduced table; at least one channel having a delay circuit and a delay controller; and a summer for summing phase-aligned signals to form a beamformed signal.