US 12,402,862 B2
Ultrasound probe connected via a cable
Andrew Lee Robinson, Kenmore, WA (US); Antonia Cornelia Van Rens, Nuenen (NL); and Alexander Ulrich Douglas, Goirle (NL)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 18/024,123
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Sep. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/074082
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 1, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/053362, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 17, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/075,756, filed on Sep. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0263506 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/54 (2013.01) [A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); G01S 7/5205 (2013.01); G01S 7/5208 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01); A61B 8/5269 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound probe configured to be operatively coupled to a cable, the cable comprising a plurality of lanes adapted to carry signals between the ultrasound probe and a data processing unit, which is configured to beamform the signals and to reconstruct ultrasound images of an imaging region, the ultrasonic probe comprising:
a transducer head comprising a plurality of transducer elements, wherein the plurality of transducer elements are configured to insonify the imaging region according to an insonification scheme and to receive ultrasound signals; and
a controller configured to receive integrity information on integrity of each lane of the plurality of lanes from a fault detection module, wherein the fault detection module is configured to detect integrity or faultiness of each lane of the plurality of lanes, and wherein the controller is further configured to, responsive to the integrity information indicating a faulty lane from the fault detection module, modify the signals carried by the one or more non-faulty lanes that are carrying the signals from one or more of the plurality of transducer elements, respectively, to include information from the signals originally carried by the faulty lane, wherein modifying the signals includes increasing a data rate of the one or more non-faulty lanes and/or reducing information from the faulty lane.