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Lobe artifact degrades lateral resolution

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True

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________ artifact appears when sound energy is transmitted in a direction other than along the beams main axis.

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Lobe

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Lobes are weaker than the primary beam and do not typically create reflections that appear on an image.

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True

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What are the 2 characteristics of lobe artifact?

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  • a second copy of the true reflector

- the artifact and the true reflector are located side by side at the same depth

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What are lobes called when created by a single crystal transducer, such as a mechanical probe?

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Side lobes

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What are lobes called when created by array transducers?

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Grating lobes

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A process of dividing each PZT element into small pieces is called?

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Subdicing

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_________ lobe artifact can be reduced by subdicing

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Grating

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Grating lobes can be further reduced by exciting the subdiced elements with different voltage

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True

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Elements closer to the center of the sound beam are excited with higher voltages, while the outermost elements are excited with lower voltages. This process is called?

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Apodization

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2 methods to eliminate lobes

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  • Subdicing

- Apodization

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What artifact is created when a sound pulse changes direction during transmission?

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Refraction

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Refraction is transmission with a _________.

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Bend

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Refraction artifact degrades lateral resolution

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True

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What are the 2 characteristics of refraction?

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  • a second copy of the reflector

- the copy is side by side, or at the same depth as the true reflector

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What are two other names for slice thickness?

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  • section thickness artifact

- partial volume artifact

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Slice thickness artifact is related to the dimension of the _________ that is perpendicular to the imaging plane.

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Beam

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_________ is determined by the thickness of the imaging plane.

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Elevational resolution

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The _______ reflector lies either above or below the assumed imaging plane, but is displayed within the image.

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True

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Slice thickness artifact fills in hollow structures such as cysts.

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True

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Slice thickness artifact is _______ (increased or reduced) with thinner imaging planes, such as those created by one half dimensional array transducers.

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Reduced

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________ resolution artifact occurs when a pair of side-by-side reflectors are closer than the width of the sound beam.

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Lateral

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In regards to lateral resolution, the reflectors are positioned perpendicular to the beam.

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With lateral resolution, two objects appear as ______ reflection on the image.

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Lateral resolution artifact may display a small reflector as a __________ rather than a narrow dot.
wide line
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What is another name for lateral resolution artifact?
point spread artifact
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T or F | Lateral resolution artifact is most likely to occur where the beam is smallest.
false
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T or F | lateral resolution is least likely to occur at focus where beam diameter is smallest.
true
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_________ resolution artifact is created when a long pulse strikes two closely spaced structures, where one is in front of the other.
Axial
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With axial resolution artifact, the structures are __________ to the beam's main axis.
parallel
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T or F | Axial resolution artifact creates one reflection on the image from two closely spaced reflectors.
true
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T or F | Transducers that create long pulses minimize axial resolution.
false
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What artifact is created when sound pulses glance off a second structure on the way to or from the primary reflector?
Multipath artifact
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What type of reflectors redirect sound waves in directions other than back toward the transducer?
Curved or oblique
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The ability to precisely locate a moving structure at all times is called?
Temporal resolution
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Temporal resolution is best with high or low frame rates?
high frame rates
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Spatial resolution is related to the ___________ in an image.
overall detail
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What are the factors that spatial resolution is determined?
- line density - axial resolution - lateral resolution
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When is spatial resolution exceptional?
with high line density (closely packed sound pulses)
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When is spatial resolution poor?
with low line density (wider gaps between the sound pulses)
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When image information is displayed on a monitor, spatial resolution is affected by the number of ____________ scan lines per frame.
horizontal
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T or F | More lines on a monitor provide better spatial resolution.
True
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When the image information is in digital form, spatial resolution is related to __________.
pixel density
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T or F | Higher pixel density results in better spatial resolution.
true
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What artifact occurs when the pixel size is greater than the size of the reflector?
Spatial resolution artifact
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What artifact occurs when a reflecting structure is located deeper than the imaging depth of the image?
Range ambiguity artifact
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Range ambiguity artifact is eliminated by ________ (increasing or decreasing) the pulse repetition period.
increasing
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What appears as small amplitude echoes and results from many sources, including electrical interference, signal processing, and spurious reflections?
Noise
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T or F | Noise is more likely to affect low-level hypoechoic regions rather than bright echogenic areas.
true
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Noise resulting from the constructive and destructive interference of small sound wavelets is known as?
acoustic speckle
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____________ interference occurs when wavelets are in-phase.
Constructive
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____________ interference occurs with out of phase wavelets.
Destructive
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______________ is an effective tool to reduce speckle.
Spatial compounding
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Another form of noise, with the presence of false echo signals arising from locations outside of the main sound beam is?
Clutter
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Side lobes, grating lobes, and section thickness artifact are sources of _________.
Clutter
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What reduces an image's noise content?
Harmonic imaging
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What is the goal of harmonic imaging?
To selectively distinguish meaningful reflections from noise, increasing the signal to noise ratio

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