ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM

An ultrasound imaging system includes a transducer, an ultrasound module, and a computer. The ultrasound module provides signal pre-processing and is highly programmable. The ultrasound module has several independently programmable functional units. The computer performs real-time scan conversion, display, data collection, user interface and input and output data exchange. The operational mode of the ultrasound module can be set under software control from the computer. The ultrasound imaging system is versatile, software-unreadable, and can perform a wide range of imaging applications in real-time. Several ultrasound imaging systems can be integrated as clients in a network of ultrasound devices having a client/server architecture for archiving, reporting and remote-control purposes.