Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9218802-B2
Application number	US-59120109-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2009
Priority date	Nov 13, 2008
Publication date	Dec 22, 2015
Grant date	Dec 22, 2015

Abstract

The number of signal lines connecting an ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus main body is reduced or wireless communication is realized by reducing a volume of data of reception signals outputted from plural ultrasonic transducers. The ultrasonic probe includes: plural ultrasonic transducers for transmitting ultrasonic waves according to drive signals and receiving ultrasonic echoes to output reception signals; signal processing units for performing orthogonal detection processing or orthogonal sampling processing on the reception signals to generate two signals representing a complex baseband signal; sampling units for sampling the two signals to generate parallel sample data; a serializing unit for converting the parallel sample data into serial sample data; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the serial sample data.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An ultrasonic probe comprising:
plural ultrasonic transducers configured to transmit ultrasonic waves according to drive signals and receive ultrasonic echoes to output reception signals;
signal processing parts each configured to perform one of quadrature detection processing and quadrature sampling processing on the reception signal outputted from respective one of said plural ultrasonic transducers to generate first and second signals representin…

Assignees

• Kondo Yuji
• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Kondo Yuji

Classifications

• A61B8/4472

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G01S7/003

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01S7/52028

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10K11/346 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01S7/5208

  Physics · mapped topic