Ultrasound probe and ultrasound imaging system

Abstract

Ultrasound probe (106) comprising: several transducer elements (152) arranged in an array (150), the several transducer elements (152) being organized to form a transmit aperture (154) and a receive aperture (156), the array (150) of transducer elements (152) being divided into a transmit aperture (154) and a receive aperture (156) for a continuous-wave Doppler mode, the transmit aperture (154) and the receive aperture (156) not overlapping; several summing nodes (214); several sets of receive switches (232), each set of receive switches (232) being assigned to a different individual of the several transducer elements (152) in the receive aperture (156), each set of receive switches (232) being configured to selectively control the assigned transducer element (152). to connect to any one of the multiple summing nodes (214).

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