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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2003
Applicant:
Moo Ho Bae, Seoul, KR;
Inventor:
Moo Ho Bae, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Medison Co., Ltd., Kangwon-do, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A digital receive-focusing apparatus for receive-focusing ultrasound channel signals from a plurality of transducers in an ultrasound imaging system is provided. The digital receive-focusing apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises a plurality of channel modules responsive to the ultrasound channel signals for producing a receive-focused beam. Each of the plurality of channel modules comprises an analogue multiplexer for multiplexing at least two ultrasound channel signals and a signal processor for digitally processing and compensating the multiplexed signal.