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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Alan Tai, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Frederic Lanteri, Le Cannet, FR;
Scott Easterbrook, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Jian Zhong Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B06B 1/06 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B06B 1/0622 (2013.01); G01S 7/52017 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasound transducer and an ultrasound imaging system including an acoustic layer with a plurality of transducer elements and a dematching layer coupled to the acoustic layer. The dematching layer has an acoustic impedance greater than the acoustic layer and the dematching layer has a thickness that varies in order to alter a bandwidth of the ultrasound probe.