Ultrasound imaging system having digital ultrasonic imaging devices

Abstract

An ultrasound (US) imaging system (100) is disclosed. The US imaging system (100) includes an ultrasound imaging device (110) comprising a transducer; and a digital transducer interface (DTI (206)). The DTI (206) includes a plurality of transducer ports (309) each comprising a plurality of digital data streams adapted to transmit digitized echo output data from the ultrasound imaging device (110). The transducer ports (309) are adapted to connect to the ultrasound imaging device (110). The US system also includes: a switching circuit (301) connected to each of the plurality of transducer ports (309); and a controller (102) adapted to control switches (24) of the switching circuit (301) to transmit digital input data to and the digital echo output data from one of the plurality of transducer ports (309) at a time.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.