Patent ID: 11950954
Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. The intraluminal imaging system of claim 1,
wherein the PIM comprises the FPGA;
wherein the PIM further comprises a microcontroller coupled to the FPGA and configured to execute control firmware to control operations of the FPGA,
wherein the ultrasound echo signal comprises an analog ultrasound echo signal, and
wherein the FPGA is configured to:
receive the analog ultrasound echo signal from the ultrasound imaging component;
perform an analog to digital conversion on the analog ultrasound echo signal to convert the analog ultrasound echo signal into a digital ultrasound echo signal;
perform signal conditioning on the digital ultrasound echo signal;
perform first image processing of the digital ultrasound echo signal after the signal conditioning; and
control the ultrasound imaging component to obtain the ultrasound echo signal.