METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS IN AN ULTRASOUND DEVICE WITH TIMING DELAYS

    公开(公告)号:US20210167791A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-03

    申请号:US17109946

    申请日:2020-12-02

    IPC分类号: H03M1/12

    摘要: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to an ultrasound device having a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to operate with a first ADC clock signal having a first timing delay and a second ADC configured to operate with a second ADC clock signal having a second timing delay. The first timing delay and the second timing delay may be different. The ultrasound device may further include delay control circuitry configured to control direct digital synthesis (DDS) circuitry to implement a first delay in ultrasound data from the first ADC and a second delay in ultrasound data from the second ADC. The first delay may correct for the first timing delay and the second delay may correct for the second timing delay.

    Ultrasound signal processing circuitry and related apparatus and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10371804B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-06

    申请号:US16252382

    申请日:2019-01-18

    摘要: Ultrasound signal processing circuitry and related apparatus and methods are described. Signal samples received from an ultrasound transducer array in an ultrasound transducer based imaging system may be processed, or conditioned, by application of one or more weighting functions. In some embodiments, one or more weighting functions may be applied to the signal samples in the time domain. In other embodiments, the signal samples may be converted to the frequency domain and one or more weighting functions may be applied in the frequency domain. In further embodiments, one or more weighting functions may be applied in the time domain and one or more weighting functions may be applied in the frequency domain. The weighting functions may be channel dependent and/or channel independent. The processed data can be provided to an image formation processor.