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US 2003/0158482 A1Published application
Portable 3D ultrasound system
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsMckee D. Poland, Martha G. Wilson
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Abstract
An apparatus including a portable ultrasound device having an emitter to emit ultrasound energy, a receiver to receive responses generated in accordance with the ultrasound energy, a signal processor to convert the generated responses into a 3D ultrasound image and a display unit to display the 3D ultrasound image.
Claims26
An apparatus, comprising:
- a portable ultrasound device, comprising
- an emitter to emit ultrasound energy;
- a receiver to receive responses generated in accordance with the emitted ultrasound energy;
- a signal processor to convert the generated responses into a 3D ultrasound image;
- and
- a display unit to display the 3D ultrasound image.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a portable ultrasound device, comprising:
- a transducer, comprising:
- a plurality of acoustic elements to transmit ultrasound energy and receive responses generated in accordance with the ultrasound energy, and
- a plurality of sub-array beamformers to generate a plurality of sub-array summed acoustic signals from the generated responses;
- a dynamic beamformer, comprising:
- a plurality of dynamic receive delays to delay the sub-array summed acoustic signals, and
- a full-array summer to sum the delayed sub-array summed acoustic signals to generate a full set of beamformed data;
- an image detector to generate 3D detected data from the full set of beamformed data;
- a scan converter to convert the 3D detected data into a 3D ultrasound image;
- and
- a display unit to display the 3D ultrasound image.
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A method, comprising:
- scanning a body with a portable or hand-held device;
- transmitting ultrasound energy from the portable or hand-held device;
- receiving responses generated in accordance with the transmitted ultrasound energy with the portable or hand-held device;
- converting the responses to a 3D ultrasound image with the portable or hand-held device;
- and
- displaying the 3D ultrasound image on the portable or hand-held device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.