Ultrasonic receive beamformer with phased sub-arrays

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1995-09-08

1996-11-12

Manuel, George

Surgery

Truss

Pad

A61B 800

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055730019

ABSTRACT:
An ultrasonic receive beamformer includes transducers forming receive signals that are applied to sub-array processors. Each sub-array processor includes at least one phase shifter and a summer, and each phase shifter is responsive to at least one of the transducer signals to shift the transducer signal by a respective phase angle and to apply the phase shifted transducer signals to the summer. Each of the summers supplies a summed sub-array signal to a respective beamformer processor. The phase angles for any one of the sub-array processors form a sum substantially equal to zero. Furthermore, the phase angles for any one of the sub-array processors are independent of the time delay of the respective digital beamformer processor. The time resolution of the time delay of the digital beamformer processors is substantially as fine as the time resolution of the phase angles of the phase shifters. The phase angles of the phase shifters are updated at a slower rate than the focusing update rate of the beamformer processors. Quadrature filter network and heterodyning circuit implementations of the phase shifters are disclosed.

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