Tablet ultrasound system

A portable touchscreen actuated cart mounted ultrasound imaging system, comprising:

• a touch screen tablet display device mounted on a cart having a touch screen display with a graphical user interface for selecting an ultrasound imaging procedure to be performed with the cart mounted ultrasound imaging system wherein at least one processor in the tablet display device is responsive to touch actuating gestures to perform an ultrasound imaging procedure selected from a plurality of selectable ultrasound imaging procedures including at least one of a cardiac imaging procedure, a vascular imaging procedure and a lesion imaging procedure;
• a chargeable battery module mounted to the cart that provides power to the touch screen display tablet device;
• a field programmable gate array (FPGA) configured to manage an ultrasound scan sequence of the selected ultrasound imaging procedure;
• a multiport transducer connector mounted on the cart to connect one or more transducer probes to the tablet display device, the plurality of transducer probes connectable to the cart mounted ultrasound system, each transducer probe having at least one transducer array that performs at least one imaging operation using an ultrasound beamformer processing integrated circuit that communicates with the at least one transducer array, the at least one imaging operation conducted using instructions received from the FPGA, wherein the graphical user interface is touch actuated to include a plurality of icons on the touch screen display area;
• a complex programmable logic device (CPLD) that clocks an ultrasound scan by at least one of the plurality of transducer probes;
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• wherein one or more imaging operations include selecting an imaging depth in response to a further gesture input detected on the touch screen display and generating at least one image of a region of interest at the selected depth using one or more imaging operations, the at least one generated image displayable on an ultrasound image display.