Synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging system

Details Synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging system Synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging system

1991-12-11

1993-12-14

Jaworski, Francis

Surgery

Truss

Pad

12866001, 73597, A61B 800

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052693090

ABSTRACT:
An acoustical imaging system for producing high resolution medical images provides a method and apparatus for obtaining accurate velocity characterizations of samples within the human body, and for obtaining high resolution images of the samples by utilizing the velocity characterizations of the samples within the human body. The acoustical imaging system also provides a method and apparatus for efficient use of switching channels whereby for a transducer array having a plurality of transducer elements, a set of receiver channels which number less than the number of transducer elements in the array are assigned to a selected portion of the plurality of transducers in the array, wherein for any predetermined set of transducers symmetrically located about a selected transducer, the predetermined set equal in number to the number of receiver channels in the system, each receiver channel in the set of receiver channels is only assigned to one transducer in said predetermined sampling set.

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