ULTRASOUND PROBE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS

摘要

A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++.

主权项

1. A method for providing streaming video in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation and corresponding ultrasonic data; sending, from an external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations; executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the commands; and sending data from the ultrasonic application server to the external application.