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US 2022/0175349 A1Published application
System and Methods for Ultrasound Imaging with Modularized Frontend and Personal Computer System
OwnerYanwei Wanginventor
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Abstract
A modularized ultrasound apparatus utilizes a PC system such as PC case, thermal management subsystem, power supply unit, motherboard, CPU, memory, hard drive, GPU, to build an ultrasound system by inserting frontend modules integrated on PCIe expansion cards as modularized components into the PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem.
Claims17
An ultrasound imaging apparatus comprising:
- a frontend subsystem configured to control the operation of a probe connected to said frontend subsystem by transmitting and receiving ultrasound wave into the target of interest, condition and digitize the received signal, and send the digital data into an imaging processor;
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- a PC system configured to implement the image processor to generate at least one ultrasound image;
- wherein the frontend subsystem is further configured to have a single or a plurality of frontend module(s) of the form of computer high-speed bus PCIe card(s) which is(are) plugged into a single or a plurality of high-speed PCIe expansion slot(s) of the PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem.
- wherein said frontend module's PCIe form factor matches PCI slot of said PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem box and secures itself to said PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem box when plugged into the PCIe expansion slot of said PC system.
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An ultrasound treatment apparatus comprising:
- a treatment frontend subsystem configured to control the operation of a probe connected to said frontend subsystem by transmitting ultrasound wave into the target of interest;
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- a PC system configured to control the frontend subsystem;
- wherein the frontend subsystem is further configured to have a single or a plurality of Frontend module(s) of the form of computer high-speed bus PCIe card(s) which is(are) plugged into a single or a plurality of high-speed PCIe expansion slot(s) of the PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem.
- wherein said Frontend module's PCIe form factor matches PCI slot of said PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem box and secures itself to said PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem box when plugged into the PCIe expansion slot of said PC system.
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An ultrasound treatment as well as imaging apparatus comprising:
- an imaging frontend subsystem configured to control the operation of a probe connected to said frontend subsystem by transmitting and receiving ultrasound wave into the target of interest, condition and digitize the received signal, and send the digital data into an imaging processor;
- a treatment frontend subsystem configured to control the operation of a probe connected to said frontend subsystem by transmitting ultrasound wave into the target of interest;
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- a PC system configured to implement the image processor to generate at least one ultrasound image;
- wherein the frontend subsystem is further configured to have a single or a plurality of Frontend module(s) of the form of computer high-speed bus PCIe card(s) which is(are) plugged into a single or a plurality of high-speed PCIe expansion slot(s) of the PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem.
- wherein said Frontend module's PCIe form factor matches PCI slot of said PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem box and secures itself to said PC system's PCIe expansion subsystem box when plugged into the PCIe expansion slot of said PC system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.