Patent ID: 11899141
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. An ultrasound imaging system comprising:
a multi-element set of ultrasound transducer elements;
an excitation pulse generator providing a succession of excitation pulses to the ultrasound transducer elements;
a receiving switch matrix modulating echoes received by the ultrasound transducer elements in response to the excitation pulses applied to an object, with a random sequence of modulation coefficients;
a circuit summing the modulated echoes in an analog domain;
and the image reconstruction processor configured to apply an imaging matrix to the summed modulated echoes to thereby generate one or more images of the object;
wherein the imaging matrix is a combination of transmitted excitation waveform matrix, propagation matrix, and beamforming function.