Synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging system

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PATENT NO 5465722
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08308953

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An acoustical imaging system for producing high resolution medical images provides a method and apparatus for obtaining accurate velocity characterizations of samples within the human body, and for obtaining high resolution images of the samples by utilizing the velocity characterizations of the samples within the human body. The acoustical imaging system also provides a method and apparatus for efficient use of switching channels whereby for a transducer array having a plurality of transducer elements, a set of receiver channels which number less than the number of transducer elements in the array are assigned to a selected portion of the plurality of transducers in the array, wherein for any predetermined set of transducers symmetrically located about a selected transducer, the predetermined set equal in number to the number of receiver channels in the system, each receiver channel in the set of receiver channels is only assigned to one transducer in said predetermined sampling set.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fort, J Robert 24001 Muirlands, #318, El Toro, CA 92630 4 390
Landmeier, Phillip C 1520 N. Appaloosa, Pahrump, NV 89041 4 376
Morgan, Douglas J 2475 El Amigo Rd., Del Mar, CA 92014 17 702
Neidell, Norman S 315 Vanderpool, Houston, TX 77024 8 433

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