used in a preferred embodiment of the present invention transducer array 207 comprises 128 transducer elements however in other embodiments of the invention different quantities of transducer elements 202 are present individual transducer elements 202 are electrical coupled to conductive traces 204 on one of two flexible printed circuits fpcs 203 such that adjacent transducer elements 202 are connected to a conductive trace 204 on a different one of fpcs 203 while many of the embodiments of the present invention described herein are shown with fpcs standard printed circuit boards flexible circuits or other media for providing the appropriate signal can also be used with certain embodiments returning to fig2 each fpc 203 is connected to a separate cable bundle 205 which merges into signal cable 201 while this embodiment of the present invention utilizes two fpcs to divide electrical connections to transducer elements 202 more fpcs can be used to further divide the electrical connections to transducer elements transducer assembly 200 further comprises two dowel pins 208 attached to body 206 holes in fpcs 203 not shown are sized to receive tooling features in this embodiment dowel pins 208 which project through the holes to accurately position fpcs 203 in a desired position relative to each other fig3 is an.