WO2010055427A1 - Générateur d’impulsions doubles pour émetteur d’ultrasons - Google Patents

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WO2010055427A1
WO2010055427A1 PCT/IB2009/054752 IB2009054752W WO2010055427A1 WO 2010055427 A1 WO2010055427 A1 WO 2010055427A1 IB 2009054752 W IB2009054752 W IB 2009054752W WO 2010055427 A1 WO2010055427 A1 WO 2010055427A1
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    • G01MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01SRADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • B06GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL
    • B06BMETHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY, e.g. FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL
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    • B06B1/02Methods or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic, or ultrasonic frequency making use of electrical energy
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    • G01SRADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01SRADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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  • This invention relates to medical diagnostic ultrasound systems and, in particular, to a transmitter for an array of ultrasound transducer elements which includes a dual level pulser.
  • an ultrasonic wave is transmitted into the body of a patient by the elements of a transducer array.
  • the transmitted ultrasound can be steered in a desired direction and focused at a desired depth in the body.
  • the energy of the transmitted waves is reflected by tissue and cells in the body and the resultant echo signals are received by the same transducer elements.
  • the echo signals received by the individual elements are delayed by delay amounts necessary to bring the echo signals from a desired location into coherence.
  • the properly delayed signals are combined to produce a coherent echo signal.
  • echo data is acquired which enables an image to be formed of a two or three dimensional region of the body.
  • One way to control the ultrasound is to transmit beams in different directions over an image region which thoroughly scans the region to be imaged. For optimal resolution it is desirable to focus each beam as tightly as possible so that echo signals are predominately produced along each beam direction.
  • transmitted ultrasound beams have main lobes and sidelobes, much in the same way as an antenna. Echoes received from off-axis sidelobes can contribute noise and artifact signals to the desired signals from the main beam, resulting in noisy or unclear images .
  • One way to control sidelobe production is by the technique known as apodization. Transmit apodization weights the signals applied to different transducer elements differently so that the pattern of transmitted signals from the different transducer elements will exhibit a more favorable lobe pattern which conLribuL.es less noise and artifact signals to the ultrasound image. Different apodization patterns can be used for imaging at different depths so that the most favorable lobe pattern is developed for the desired focal depth of imaging. It is thus desirable to provide control of the transmit characteristics of each transducer element independently of the others, and it is further desirable to afford flexibility in the degree of control afforded, so that those who program the beamformer have as much control as possible over transmit apodization.
  • One way to provide a high level of control for transmit apodization is to drive each transducer element of the array with a controllable linear amplifier . This will enable a maximal degree of control over apodization, since the precise waveform transmitted by each transducer element can be precisely controlled.
  • Such control is desirable for premium ultrasound systems, where the highest degree of image resolution is necessary, as are applications such as Doppler and harmonic imaging, where considerable control over transmit frequencies is needed.
  • lower performing transmitters provide acceptable performance.
  • a less expensive system can use pulse transmitters, where the signal applied to each transducer element is either on or off. The restriction to a simple on or off transmit signal greatly reduces the degree of control that the beamformer designer has over apodization, however.
  • it is desirable to provide a greater degree of control for a pulser type of transmitter so that greater control over apodization is afforded.
  • a diagnostic ultrasound system in which the elements of the ultrasound transducer are driven by a dual level pulser.
  • the dual level pulser provides twice as many transmit levels as the standard pulser, or more, depending upon the implementation.
  • the additional transmit levels afford double or more of the levels of control for transmit apodization than the conventional "transmit pulser.
  • a constructed embodiment of the present invention additionally provides an active pulldown drive for ringdown control and low power utilization for power-sensitive applications such as battery- powered ultrasound systems.
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates in block diagram form an ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system constructed in accordance with the principles of " the present invention .
  • FIGURES 2a and 2b illustrate two examples of spatial apodization control of a transducer array.
  • FIGURE 2c illustrates a pulse width modulated waveform produced by a dual level pulse of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 3 is a block diagram and schematic illustration of a dual level pulser of the present invention.
  • FIGURES 4a and 4b illustrate a dual level pulser of the present invention in schematic detail.
  • FIGURE 5 is a truth table for controlling the operating states of the dual level pulser of FIGURES 4a and 4b.
  • FIGURES 6 and 7 illustrate a four-bit control scheme for the pulser of FIGURES 4a and 4b.
  • FIGURE 8 illustrates the control levels of a transmit waveform produced by one of the pulsers of the dual level pulser o£ FIGURES 4a and 4b.
  • FIGURE 1 an ultrasound system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention is shown in block diagram form.
  • Reference numeral 10 indicates the transducer array and beamformer of the ultrasound system. These components may all be contained within an ultrasound probe as shown in US Pat. 6,102,863 (Pflugrath et al.) Alternatively, the beamformer may be partitioned between a probe containing a microbeamformer which produces partially beamformed signals, and a mainframe system which performs the rest of the beamforming as described in US Pat . 5,229,933 (Larson, III). More conventionally, the probe will contain just the transducer stack and the transmit and receive beamformers are located in the mainframe system.
  • the transmit beamformer 38 contains a plurality of transmitters which drive the transducer elements 28 of the transducer array stack 12. Echo signals received by the transducer elements are coupled by conductors 42- A , 42 ⁇ ,... 42 N to preamplifiers and delays 46 of the receive beamformer 40. The amplified and delayed signals are coupled to a summer 48 which combines the delayed signals to produce coherent echo signals at an output 50. The coherent echo signals are coupled to an image processor 58 which produces an ultrasound image of tissue, flow or motion in the region of the body being scanned ultrasonically. A controller 52 controls the transmit and receive beamformers so that they operate in a properly interleaved manner, first transmitting transmit waves, then receiving and processing echoes in response.
  • An input 56 is shown to the preamplifiers and delays 46 which sets the appropriate time delay for the signals from each transducer element.
  • An input 54 is shown Lo the transmit beamformer which, in an implementation of the present invention, controls a dual level pulser.
  • the transducer array and beamfoxmer can be partitioned differently in different embodiments. For instance, when the ultrasound probe only includes a ⁇ ransducer stack 12, conductors 42i, 42 2 ,... 42 N will be conductors of the cable connecting the probe to the system mainframe and to the inputs 44], 44z,...
  • brackets of groups of amplified and delayed signal lines between the preamplifiers and delays 46 and the summer 48 indicate that groups of signals may be combined in the probe and these partially beamformed signals coupled to the system mainframe where channels of the system mainframe beamformer complete the beamforming of the partially beamformed signals .
  • the final beamformer summer 48 will be in the system mainframe.
  • FIGURE 2a is a spatial illustration of transmit apodization which may be performed by a typical transmitter pulse of the prior art .
  • the numbers 1... 32... 64... 128 along the bottom of the figure represent the transducer element numbers of a 128-element transducer array.
  • the transmit pulser does not drive elements 1-28 or elements 101- 128.
  • the elements that are driven to produce a transmit pulse in this example are elements 29-100 as shown by the HVl level in association with those elements. Those elements are pulsed at the HVl voltage level at times appropriate for the steering and focusing of the desired transmit beam.
  • FIGURE 2b illustrates the type of apodization control which is possible with a dual level pulser of the present invention.
  • the dual level pulser allows each transducer element to be driven at one of two transmit levels .
  • transducer elements 1-28 and 101-128 are not driven at all as in the previous example.
  • elements 29-48 and elements 79-98 are pulsed at voltage level HV2 and elements 49-78 are pulsed at voltage level HVl.
  • Each element is independently controlled by its own pulser as explained below. The choice of multiple levels affords the system designer enhanced control over the transmit waveform for transmission at selected depths or with improved sidelobe control.
  • FIGURE 3 is a partial block and schematic diagram of a dual level pulser of the present invention.
  • Two output drive stages 110 and 120 each consisting of a stack of two oppositely poled MOSFET transistors 112,118 and 122,128 and diode pairs 114,116 and 124,126 are coupled by a common output to drive transducer element 28 with a transmit pulse.
  • the drive stage 110 is powered by positive and negative high voltages HVl+ and HVl-
  • the drive stage 120 is powered by positive and negative high voltages HV2+ and HV2-. Echo signals received by the transducer element 28 are coupled during reception by closure of a transmit/receive switch T/R to a preamplifier of the receive beamformer 40,46.
  • an active pull-to-ground bipolar stage capable of bilateral (bidirectional) current conduction, energized by logic power supply VDD and ground (GND) , and including a bipolar stack of MOSFET transistors 102,104 and diodes 105,107, is also coupled to the pulser output. All of the transistors are switched by logically developed signals produced by pulser conLrol 100, which is coupled Lo the gates o£ each o£ the six MOSFET transistors shown in FIGURE 3.
  • the control signals produced by the pulser control 100 provide pulse width modulation control of the pulser and the bipolar high voltage output levels enable waveforms of controlled durations, frequencies, and amplitudes to be produced by each transducer element, as exemplified by the pulse width modulated waveform of FIGURE 3b.
  • FIGURES 4a and 4b illustrate a dual level pulser with its control logic in accordance with the present invention in schematic detail.
  • the implementation of FIGURES 4a and 4b is constructed entirely of MOSFET transistors, diodes, and resistors and is capable of being fully integrated in integrated circuit form. Various semiconductor processes may be used.
  • the dual level pulser is controlled by four digital control bits shown on the left side of FIGURE 6.
  • a transmit enable bit (txen) enables the pulser for operation.
  • a select bit (sel) selects one of the dual pulsers for operation.
  • Input bits inl and in2 control the selected pulser to produce either a positive high voltage ⁇ vhp_l or vhp__2) or a negative high voltage (vhn_l or vhn_2) or a reference (ground) drive voltage output pulse, with the width of the output pulse controlled by the bit duration.
  • the four control bits are buffered and their complements produced by serial inverter pairs as shown in FIGURE 6.
  • a pulser for one bipolar high voltage (vhp__l and vhn_l) is illustrated in FIGURE 4a and a pulser for another high voltage (vhp_2 and vhn_2) is illustrated in FIGURE 4b.
  • the two pulsers are schematically the same, with the differences being in the applied control signals.
  • each pulser is the same with the difference being the transistor polarity is reversed, respectively.
  • This duality of design affords multiple dual level pulsers to be quickly and easily laid out for the same integrated circuit chip by replication.
  • the pulser of FIGURE 4a will be described below, with the understanding that its description applies also to the complementary circuitry of the pulser of FIGURE 4b.
  • the txen_buf signal is coupled to an input of NAND gate 60 and an input of NAND gate 70 to enable the dual pulsers.
  • the sel_buf signal is high, the pulser of FIGURE 4a is selected for operation, and when the sel_buf signal is low, its complement sel_n (see FIGURE 6b) at the input of NAND gate 70 selects the pulser of FIGURE 4b for operation.
  • the state of the sel bit thus selects which pulser is to be used for pulsing the transducer element coupled to the output "out.”
  • the NAND gate 60 selects the pulser of FIGURE 4a by switching the current source transistors 18 and 8 of two differential amplifier pairs into conduction to provide current for one of the differential pairs.
  • the current source transistors 18 and 8 are biased to low voltage logic levels vdd and ground (gnd) , respectively.
  • differential pair of transistors 3,4 is enabled when the pulser of FIGURE 4a is to produce a negative high voltage (vhn_l) pulse and its mirrored replica, differential pair 13,14 is enabled when the pulse is to produce a positive high voltage pulse.
  • the differential amplifier pair 13,14 is enabled by the inl_buf signal applied to the gate of transistor 14 and its inverted complement is applied to the gate of transistor 13.
  • differential pair 13,14 is enabled by the inl bit (see FIGURE 6c) .
  • differential pair 3,4 is enabled for a negative high voltage drive pulse by the in2_buf signal applied to NAND gate 62.
  • the complement of inl_buf, inl_n is applied to the other input of NAMD gate 62.
  • differential pair 3,4 is enabled by the in2 bit (see FIGURE 6d) .
  • Supply current is provided to the supply electrodes of the differential pairs by current mirror circuits 6a, 6b and 16a, 16b, respectively.
  • a single-ended output signal is used from the differential pairs, taken from the source electrodes of transistors 4 and 14, respectively.
  • the current drawn by the active one of the differential pairs drives a bipolar stack of transistors 20b, 20a or 30b, 30a, respectively, into conduction.
  • the positive high voltage stack 30b, 30a is coupled between the positive high voltage vhp_l and ground
  • the negative high voltage stack 20b, 20a is coupled between the negative high voltage vhn_l and ground.
  • the flow of current through the two-transistor stack biased by a resistor 24 or 34 to the respective high voltage supply, will pull the gate voltage of the respective high voltage drive transistor 40 or 42 toward ground, switching the drive transistor into conduction.
  • drive transistor 42 is conductive a positive high voltage pulse (vhp__l) is produced at out
  • drive transistor 40 is conductive a negative high voltage pulse (vhn_l) is produced at the output terminal out.
  • the pulser of FIGURE 4b operates in a similar manner when it is selected by a high sel_n signal .
  • transistor 42' When this pulser is selected and a positive inl bit applied, transistor 42' will be conductive Lo produce a positive high voltage pulse (vhp_2) at the output terminal out, and a positive in2 bit will produce a negative high voltage pulse (vhn_2) at the output terminal .
  • the logic truth table for the control signal bits for the pulser is shown in FIGURE 5.
  • this implementation of a dual level pulser also includes an active pull-to- ground function, which is provided by the coupling of transistors 50,52 to the output terminal by diodes 54,46 and 56,44, respectively.
  • the pull-to-ground stage is powered by low voltage levels vdd and gnd and is controlled by the decoder logic shown in FIGURE 7.
  • transistors 50 and 52 are turned off by control signals zero and zero_n. But when neither a positive or negative high voltage pulse is produced and the dual pulser remains enabled, the transistors 50 and 52 are switched on to pull the output terminal to ground potential (gnd) . This enables control of the ringdown effect of the transducer being driven, as an active turn-off of the drive signal will dampen the ringdown effect.
  • the operation of the dual level pulser may be appreciated by referring to the switched pulser waveform of FIGURE 8.
  • the txen bit will enable both pulsers and the sel bit will select one of the two pulsers to produce the illustrated waveform, which will produce a pulse of either the vhn_l or vhp_l level if the pulser of FIGURE 4a is selected, or a pulse of either the vhn_2 or vhp_2 level when the pulser of FIGURE 4b is selected.
  • the setting of the inl bit will cause the pulser to produce a +HV level pulse for the duration that the inl bit is set, where +HV equals either vhp_l or vhp_2.
  • additional pulser stages can be added and connected to the output terminal to produce transducer drive pulses of additional drive pulse levels.
  • a three, four, or more level pulser can be produced thereby.
  • the number of con rol bits must be increased to control the additional pulsers.
  • More sophisticated transmit waveforms and apodization characteristics may thereby be implemented.
  • the dual pulser of the present invention may be integrated in integrated circuit chips which contain 64 of the pulsers for 64 transducer elements, 128 pulsers for a 128-element array, or some other desirable level of circuit integration.

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L’invention concerne un émetteur pour un système d’imagerie diagnostique par ultrasons, produisant des impulsions d’attaque de transducteur à au moins deux niveaux bipolaires. L’émetteur comprend une première paire de transistors d’attaque reliés entre une première paire de niveaux de tension élevée bipolaires et possédant une sortie reliée à une borne de sortie. Une seconde paire de transistors d’attaque est reliée entre une seconde paire de niveaux de tension élevée bipolaires et possède une sortie reliée à la borne de sortie. Une logique de commande réagit à des bits de commande en sélectionnant une des paires de transistors d’attaque et la polarité de l’impulsion de sortie. Un montage de circuits de conversion de niveau convertit les signaux de commande provenant de la logique de commande en signaux d’attaque destinés aux transistors d’attaque pour tensions élevées. Un circuit d’abaissement à la masse (pull-to-ground) actif est utilisé pour abaisser le niveau de sortie à la masse à la suite d’une impulsion de sortie de manière à limiter les réverbérations du transducteur à ultrasons attaqué par l’émetteur, et pour présenter une forte impédance de sortie lorsque l’émetteur n’est pas actif.
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