MONOLITHIC ULTRASONIC IMAGING DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20160202349A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-14

    申请号:US15075942

    申请日:2016-03-21

    IPC分类号: G01S7/52 A61N7/00 A61B8/00

    摘要: To implement a single-chip ultrasonic imaging solution, on-chip signal processing may be employed in the receive signal path to reduce data bandwidth and a high-speed serial data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as digital data stream. The digitization of received signals on-chip allows advanced digital signal processing to be performed on-chip, and thus permits the full integration of an entire ultrasonic imaging system on a single semiconductor substrate. Various novel waveform generation techniques, transducer configuration and biasing methodologies, etc., are likewise disclosed. HIFU methods may additionally or alternatively be employed as a component of the “ultrasound-on-a-chip” solution disclosed herein.