MATRIX ULTRASOUND PROBE WITH PASSIVE HEAT DISSIPATION Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A61B8/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medical equipment, namely to ultrasound probes. Ultrasonic transducer array probe comprises a transducer stack, having an array of transducer elements coupled to an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a transducer array, thermally conductive frame, which is thermally coupled to the transducer stack, housing forming a probe handle, wherein the housing covers at least a part of the thermally conductive frame which stretches in part of the handle, and a thermally conductive heatspreader, which is thermally coupled to the frame, surrounds at least a part of the housing which stretches in part of the handle, and comprises an inner surface area, that is adjacent and thermally connected with housing inner surface area to prevent the development of hotspots in the housing.

EFFECT: invention usage allows to increase comfort of sonography performance.

14 cl, 8 dwg