Transducers are the core of Ultrasound technology. Integrating physics, electronics and geometrics in their design is the greatest engineering challenge of the Signal Processing Chain. Transducers are the primary component of a Signal Processing Chain, the system that leads to the final diagnostic image.

Although a great deal of time has been spent on the optimization of scan converters, post-processing algorithms, and sophisticated speckle-reduction technologies, ultrasound transducers remain a scanner’s primary interface between patient and user.