MOBILE 3D WIRELESS ULTRASOUND IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention relates to a three dimensional ultrasound imaging system(10) comprising an ultrasound image a cquisition device (46) and a mobile console (18) which are both connected in a wireless manner. In particular the ultrasound acquisition device has a battery powered probe (14) having a probe housing (20) and the transducer array (32) and an image acquisition hardware assembly (37) comprising at least a beam former (34) and a signal processor (36) are located within the probe housing (16). By this a low weight flexible three dimensional ultrasound imaging system(10) may be provided.