Network-based ultrasound imaging system

A method of ultrasound imaging comprising the steps of:

• transmitting an unfocused three-dimensional ping into an object from a transmitter element of a transducer array in a probe of a data capture device;
• receiving echoes of the unfocused three-dimensional ping from one or more reflectors with a plurality of receiver elements of the transducer array;
• converting analog signals from each of the plurality of receiver elements into a full dataset of digital sample sets, wherein the full dataset comprises digital sample sets from all the receiver elements;
• communicating the full dataset to a network-based image generation system;
• in the network-based image generation system, combining digital sample sets from a plurality of the receiver elements to represent a three-dimensional location of each reflector as a voxel in a 3D volume;
• selecting first voxel within the 3D volume;
• identifying closest digital sample sets within the full dataset to the selected first voxel for each receiver element;
• summing the closest digital sample sets to produce a final representation of the selected first voxel.