Patent ID: 8038622

Claim:
A remotely manipulatable ultrasound transducer assembly for wirelessly communicating with a remote work station including a display, the transducer assembly comprising a transducer array for collecting multi-planar ultrasound images, a first motor for rotating the transducer array in a plane parallel to the human body about a point, the remotely manipulatable transducer array configured to be fixed to a human body surface, a second motor for twisting the transducer array about a line of the transducer array from a default position and the transducer array, responsive to the second motor, configured to direct ultrasound waves directly into the human body to which the transducer array is fixed to other planes below skin surface from the line of the transducer array; a third x axis motor and a fourth y axis motor configured to move the transducer array in two directions within a two-dimensional footprint on the human body surface; a transceiver for communicating wirelessly with the remote work station; a controller for receiving motor control data from said transceiver and controlling said first, second, third and fourth motors responsive to receipt of motor control data to relocate said transceiver array; and a housing for the transducer array and the first, second, third and fourth motors, the housing having a relatively flat surface configured for fixation to a two-dimensional footprint of the human body surface.