Patent ID: 11931203
Assignee: FUJIFILM SONOSITE, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B  G  H  Y | IPC A  B  G  H

Claim 13:
14. A lens for an ultrasound imaging probe comprising:
an acoustic lens layer having a center curved section and two flat side sections, wherein:
the center curved section includes a center portion having a midpoint and two endpoints such that the center portion has a first thickness at the midpoint and a second thickness at each of the two endpoints;
an average of the first thickness and the second thickness is substantially equal to an odd multiple of a ¼ wavelength of a center frequency of the ultrasound transducer; and
the lens layer is bonded to a matching layer which is operationally coupled to a transducer layer, the matching layer comprising a first matching layer comprising an epoxy, and wherein bonding the lens layer comprises bonding a second matching layer to the lens layer using the first matching layer such that the second matching layer is positioned between the first matching layer and the transducer layer.