摘要 |
<p>An ultrasound medical system (10) includes an ultrasound transducer assembly which is insertable into a patient (14), which has a longitudinal axis, and which has a plurality P of ultrasound transducers (20, 26). Each transducer (20, 26) has an ultrasound-emitting surface oriented at an angle of substantially 360/P degrees apart from the ultrasound-emitting surface of an adjacent transducer when viewed in a cross section of the transducer assembly taken by a cutting plane which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. In one example, the ultrasound transducer assembly is an ultrasound imaging transducer assembly, an ultrasound medical-treatment transducer assembly, or an ultrasound imaging and medical-treatment transducer assembly.</p> |