Laurent PELISSIER,Kris DICKIE,Benjamin Eric KERBY,Nishant UNIYAL,Reza Zahiri
申请号：
US15817003
公开号：
US20180310922A1
申请日:
2017.11.17
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
This disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for performing at least three modes of ultrasound imaging using a single ultrasound transducer. In a first mode, transducer elements are activated so that ultrasound signals are transmitted from the contact surface at one or more directions normal to the contact surface. In a second mode, a first subset of the transducer elements are activated so that parallel ultrasound signals are transmitted from the contact surface. In a third mode, a second subset of the transducer elements are activated so that ultrasound signals are steered from the second subset of transducer elements.
