A Front-End Board for Modular Ultrasound Open Scanners
摘要
The development of advanced techniques for three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging demands open scanners able to simultaneously and independently control thousands of piezoelectric transducers on two-dimensional (2D) array probes. This work proposes a modular solution based on a 64-channel front-end module (FEM) capable of transmitting, receiving, conditioning, and digitizing ultrasound signals, and of transferring them to an elaboration unit through a 10GEthernet protocol with a global data-rate of 40 Gbps. Multiple FEM units can synchronously operate by sharing a common front-plane board to build high channel count (N × 64) open scanners.