ULTRASONIC IMAGING DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE BEAM FORMER AND METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC IMAGING WITH ADAPTIVE BEAM FORMATION Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01S7/52 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to communication engineering and can be used by systems for acquiring information on a subject receiving elastic waves. An ultrasonic imaging device includes a probe (302), having a plurality of elements (301) arranged in a matrix, and converts received elastic waves into received signals; the device includes a first signal processing unit in which received signals are used to compute first output signals corresponding to elastic waves from a target location, a second signal processing unit in which first output signals for a target location are used to compute second output signals corresponding to elastic waves from the target location, and an image processing unit in which the second output signals are used to generate image data for display on an image reproducing device. One of the first signal processing unit and the second signal processing unit employs adaptive signal processing to compute first output signals or second output signals.

EFFECT: high accuracy of receiving information owing to high spatial resolution.

9 cl, 11 dwg