Ultrasound probe with integrated electronics
First Claim
1. A method of integrating an ultrasonic imaging system with an external application comprising:
- providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation;
receiving from the external application, a request for at least one of the ultrasonic operations; and
executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the request.
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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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57 Claims
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1. A method of integrating an ultrasonic imaging system with an external application comprising:
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providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation;
receiving from the external application, a request for at least one of the ultrasonic operations; and
executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the request. - 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, 29)
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30. A system for integration of an ultrasonic imaging system with an external application comprising:
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a user computing device having an ultrasonic application server operable to receive and process ultrasonic data;
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 communicate with the integrated interface program, such that the integrated interface program communicates with the ultrasonic application server to transmit the ultrasonic data to the external application. - View Dependent Claims (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, 57)
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