Patent ID: 8469893
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: A61B,G01S

Abstract:
1. An ultrasound imaging system comprising: a hand-held probe housing having a transducer array circuit including a transducer array that detects ultrasound signals; a beam transmission integrated circuit that controls transmission of ultrasound signals by the transducer array; a sampling circuit that samples detected ultrasound signals to generate sampled ultrasound signals; a beamformer integrated circuit that delays the sampled ultrasound signals and generates delayed, sampled ultrasound signals; a summing circuit that generates an electronic representation of the region of interest with the delayed, sampled ultrasound signals; a hand-held data processor housing having a memory, a battery and a data processor, the data processor generating Doppler ultrasound images from the electronic representation of the region of interest with a graphical user interface (GUI); a cable electronically connecting the hand-held probe housing to the hand-held data processor housing; and a display on the hand-held data processor housing for displaying ultrasound images with the graphical-user interface, the ultrasound images being transferred to the display using the data processor.