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Ultrasound: Don’t Be Blinded by Your Amplifier’s Slow Overload Recovery (.PDF Download)

April 11, 2019
Ultrasound: Don’t Be Blinded by Your Amplifier’s Slow Overload Recovery (.PDF Download)

Ultrasound receivers are frequently exposed to overload conditions during B-mode and pulsed Doppler operation. These conditions can saturate the amplifiers and/or the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) within the receive amplifier-front-end (AFE) signal chain. An ultrasound receiver with poor overload recovery characteristics can greatly complicate design, significantly reduce image quality, and lengthen time-to-market. This article reviews ultrasound system design challenges with regard to overload recovery, and presents a new approach to address this issue.

The Ultrasound System

Ultrasound has a wide range of medical applications, including imaging, blood flow measurement, cancerous lesion detection, bone densitometry, and needle or catheter guidance.