Ultrasound probe
AssigneeHitachi Medical Corporation
InventorsToshiro Kondo, Takaya Osawa
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Abstract
An ultrasound probe obtained by arranging, on a backing 10, a plurality of transducers each of which comprising a piezoelectric transducer 20, an acoustic lens 40, and an acoustic matching layer provided between the piezoelectric transducer 20 and the acoustic lens 40, the acoustic matching layer containing a fibrous material, and the direction of fibers in the fibrous material being perpendicular to the direction of sound waves.
Claims10
An ultrasound probe obtained by arranging, on a backing, a plurality of transducers each of which comprising a piezoelectric transducer, an acoustic lens, and an acoustic matching layer provided between said piezoelectric transducer and said acoustic lens, said acoustic matching layer containing a fibrous material, and the direction of fibers in said fibrous material being perpendicular to the direction of sound waves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.