公开(公告)号：EP3515315A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-31

申请号：EP17853286.7

申请日：2017-08-09

申请人： Samsung Medison Co., Ltd. ,  Sogang University Research Foundation

发明人： KIM, Kang Sik ,  SONG, Tae-kyong ,  PARK, Ji Won

IPC分类号： A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B5/026

公开(公告)号：EP3207875A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-23

申请号：EP16188815.1

申请日：2016-09-14

申请人： SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD. ,  Sogang University Research Foundation

发明人： LEE, Woo Youl ,  SONG, Tae-kyong ,  KANG, Hyun Gil ,  PARK, Ji Won

IPC分类号： A61B8/00 ,  G01S15/89 ,  A61B8/08 ,  G10K11/34

CPC分类号： A61B8/4494 ,  A61B8/145 ,  A61B8/4405 ,  A61B8/4488 ,  A61B8/461 ,  A61B8/469 ,  A61B8/483 ,  A61B8/52 ,  A61B8/5207 ,  A61B8/54 ,  G01S7/52047 ,  G01S7/52085 ,  G01S15/8925 ,  G01S15/8927 ,  G10K11/346

摘要： The present disclosure provides a beamforming apparatus, ultrasonic probe having the same, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and controlling method thereof, which increases the quality of an image in a region of interest by adjusting time delays of analog and digital beamformers in a two dimensional (2D) transducer of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a beamforming apparatus for beamforming ultrasound received through a two dimensional (2D) arrayed ultrasonic transducer is provided. The apparatus includes an analog beamformer for delaying analog signals received from a subarray including at least one array of the transducer; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for converting an analog signal to a digital signal; a digital beamformer for beamforming the digital signal; and a beamformer controller for calculating an initial time delay based on a reference focus point corresponding to a region of interest, and determining a starting point of a sample and hold (S/H) circuit included in the analog beamformer.

摘要翻译： 本公开提供了一种波束形成设备，具有该波束形成设备的超声波探头，超声波诊断设备及其控制方法，其通过调整二维（2D）模拟和数字波束形成器的时间延迟来增加感兴趣区域中的图像的质量 ）超声波诊断装置的传感器。 根据本公开的一方面，提供了一种用于波束形成通过二维（2D）阵列式超声换能器接收的超声波的波束形成设备。 该设备包括模拟波束形成器，用于延迟从包括换能器的至少一个阵列的子阵列接收的模拟信号; 模数转换器（ADC），用于将模拟信号转换成数字信号; 用于波束形成数字信号的数字波束形成器; 以及波束形成器控制器，用于基于对应于感兴趣区域的参考聚焦点来计算初始时间延迟，并且确定包括在模拟波束形成器中的采样和保持（S / H）电路的开始点。

公开(公告)号：EP3267219A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-10

申请号：EP17150111.7

申请日：2017-01-03

申请人： Samsung Medison Co., Ltd. ,  Sogang University Research Foundation

发明人： KIM, Kang-Sik ,  SONG, Tae-kyong ,  KANG, Hyun-gil ,  PARK, Ji-Won

IPC分类号： G01S7/52 ,  G01S15/89 ,  G10K11/34

CPC分类号： A61B8/4494 ,  A61B8/4405 ,  A61B8/462 ,  G01S7/52025 ,  G01S7/5208 ,  G01S15/8915 ,  G01S15/8927 ,  G10K11/346

摘要： An ultrasound probe includes a plurality of transducer elements (311) configured to transmit ultrasound waves to an object and receive ultrasound echo signals corresponding to the transmitted ultrasound waves from the object, wherein the plurality of transducer elements (311) are classified to be included in a plurality of first sub-arrays (310a, 310b, 310c), a plurality of first analog beamformers (330a, 330b, 330c) configured to generate first synthesized signals by performing first beamforming on each of the ultrasound echo signals received by the plurality of transducer elements (311) included in each of the plurality of the first sub-arrays (310a, 310b, 310c), and a second analog beamformer (340) configured to generate a second synthesized signal by performing second beamforming on the first synthesized signals generated by the plurality of first analog beamformers (330a, 330b, 330c).

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种超声波探头，该超声波探头包括：多个振子元件（311），其向对象发送超声波，接收来自该对象物的与所发送的超声波对应的超声波回波信号;多个振子元件（311） 多个第一子阵列（310a，310b，310c），多个第一模拟波束形成器（330a，330b，330c），其被配置为通过对由所述多个 包括在所述多个第一子阵列（310a，310b，310c）中的每一个中的换能器元件（311）;以及第二模拟波束形成器（340），配置为通过对所生成的第一合成信号执行第二波束形成来生成第二合成信号 由多个第一模拟波束成形器（330a，330b，330c）提供。