Digital ultrasound: from beamforming to PACS

September 1999 7 medicamundi Digital electronics is certainly a technology that has had an enormous impact on our modern way of life. This is demonstrated every day in many instruments that we use. For instance, it is obviously reflected in what gives us dependable and accurate time measurement (digital clocks), undistorted music (compact disc), control of car engine power (electronic fuel injection), and access to world wide communications (digital link on internet, digital cellular phones...).