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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2011
Applicant:
Wolf-dietrich Kleinert, Bonn, DE;
Inventor:
Wolf-Dietrich Kleinert, Bonn, DE;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/06 (2006.01); G01N 29/265 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/0672 (2013.01); G01N 29/069 (2013.01); G01N 29/0645 (2013.01); G01N 29/265 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0289 (2013.01); G01N 2291/106 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system including a segmented transducer probe is provided. The segmented transducer probe includes a plurality of transducer segments adapted to transmit ultrasonic excitation signals into a test specimen and to receive echo signals resulting from the interaction of the ultrasonic excitation signals and the test specimen. The system also includes a processing system adapted to receive data from the segmented transducer probe that corresponds to the received echo signals and to utilize tomographic reconstruction methods to reconstruct an image corresponding to at least one volumetric slice of the test specimen.