Ultrasound imaging device
AssigneeModuleus
InventorsCharlotte Constans, Adrien Bailly
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Abstract
An ultrasound imaging device includes an assembly of ultrasound transducers. The ultrasound transducers are divided into a plurality of sub-assemblies each having P ultrasound transducers. The ultrasound imaging device further includes, for each sub-assembly, K transceiver circuits and a configurable routing circuit coupling the P ultrasound transducers of the sub-assembly to the K transceiver circuits where P and K are integers greater than or equal to 2, with K smaller than P. Each sub-assembly further includes at least one mobile transducer capable of being, via the routing circuit, disconnected or connected to any one of a plurality of predefined transceiver circuits among the K transceiver circuits of the sub-assembly.
Claims10
An ultrasound imaging device comprising an assembly of ultrasound transducers divided into a plurality of sub-assemblies, each sub-assembly comprising P ultrasound transducers, the device comprising, for each sub-assembly:
- K transceiver circuits;
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- a configurable routing circuit coupling the P ultrasound transducers of the sub-assembly to the K transceiver circuits,
- wherein P and K are integers greater than or equal to 2, with K smaller than P,
- and wherein each sub-assembly comprises at least one mobile transducer capable of being, via the routing circuit, disconnected or connected to any one of a plurality of predefined transceiver circuits among the K transceiver circuits of the sub-assembly,
- wherein each sub-assembly further comprises at least one fixed transducer capable of being, via the routing circuit of the sub-assembly, disconnected or connected to a single one of the predefined transceiver circuits among the K transceiver circuits of the sub-assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.