Ultrasound probe with integrated electronics
First Claim
1. A method of external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
- providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation;
sending, from the external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations; and
executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the command.
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Abstract
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++.
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82 Claims
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1. A method of external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation;
sending, from the external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations; and
executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the command. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A system for external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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a user computing device having an ultrasonic application server operable to receive and process ultrasonic data via a predetermined interface;
an integrated interface program in communication with the ultrasonic application server and operable to invoke operations in the ultrasonic application server;
an external application operable to generate a command corresponding to the operations, and further operable to transmit the commands to the integrated interface program, wherein the integrated interface program invokes the ultrasonic application server to compute a result in response to the command, and transmits the result back to the external application. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A computer program product having computer program instructions for external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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computer program instructions for defining an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation;
computer program code for defining an integrated interface program having a plurality of entry points into the ultrasonic application server, the entry points operable to access each of the at least one ultrasonic operations;
computer program code for sending, from the external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations; and
computer program code for executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the command.
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58. A system for accessing and displaying ultrasonic imaging data, comprising:
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a portable information device having a wireless interface port; and
a computing device having a wireless interface port being operable to communicate with the portable information device and able to respond to requests for transmitting ultrasonic imaging data to the portable information device. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61)
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62. A method for accessing and displaying ultrasonic imaging data comprising the steps of:
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sending a connection request from a portable information device to a computing device in communication with a probe having a transducer array, control circuitry and communication control circuitry;
accepting and responding to the connection request by the computing device; and
sending ultrasonic imaging data from the computing device to the portable information device. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65)
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66. A portable information device for accessing and displaying ultrasonic imaging data, comprising:
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an interface for receiving a user input;
a wireless transceiver for transmitting and receiving wireless messages; and
a processor coupled to the interface and the wireless transceiver, the processor being configured to execute an ultrasonic imaging application, the processor being further configured to format a wireless message in accordance with a predetermined protocol suitable for communication with a computing device having ultrasonic imaging data and wherein the processor outputs a wireless connection message to the wireless transceiver for transmission. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68)
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69. An ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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a probe having a transducer array, and a control circuitry and a digital communication control circuit, the control circuitry including a transmit/receive module, beamforming module and a system controller; and
a computing device connected to the digital communication control circuit of the probe with a communication interface, the computer processing display data. - View Dependent Claims (70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82)
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