Ultrasonic holography imaging system and method

US10775743B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Stephan Falter · Simmerath, DE
• Dieter Lingenberg · Bad Mergentheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2018
• Grant date: Sep 15, 2020
• Expiry date: Aug 29, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49005
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An ultrasonic holography imaging system and method are provided. The ultrasonic holography imaging system includes an ultrasonic transducer array coupled to an analog processing section. The analog processing section is coupled to a digital processing section. The digital processing section generates digital signals to be converted by the analog processing section into analog signals that are transmitted to individual transceiver elements within the ultrasonic transducer array to cause separate ones of the individual transceiver elements to emit ultrasonic waveforms that are differentiated from each other by one or more parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and phase or modulation thereof.