Patent ID: 9575165
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01S,G10K

Claim:
1. An ultrasound probe comprising: a 2D transducer array comprising a plurality of transducer elements, the plurality of transducer elements organized to form a transmit aperture and a receive aperture, wherein the transmit aperture and the receive aperture do not overlap with each other; a plurality of summing nodes; and a plurality of sets of receive switches, each set of receive switches comprising a plurality of receive switches, each set of receive switches being associated with a different one of the plurality of transducer elements in the receive aperture, each set of receive switches configured to selectively connect the associated transducer element to any one of the plurality of summing nodes without an amplifier electrically connected between the associated transducer element and the one of the plurality of summing nodes when in a continuous-wave Doppler mode.