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Who first described the Doppler shirt/effect?

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Christian Johann Doppler (1803-1853) an Austrian physicist

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What is the Doppler effect?

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A change in frequency of sound, light or waves caused by motion of the source or observer

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What is the Doppler shift in ultrasound?

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Change in frequency of sound caused by motion of RBC

Difference b/w transmitted freq and received freq

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What happens to the frequency if the RBC are moving towards the transducer?

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Echo freq will be larger then the transducer therefore antegrade flow

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What happens to the frequency if the RBC are away from the transducer?

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The echo frequency will be smaller therefore retrograde flow

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What is the shift dependant on? (3)

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  1. Transmitted freq
  2. Velocity of moving blood
  3. Angle b/w moving blood and the sound beam
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What are the methods to detect and analyze Doppler shifts? (3)

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Color flow
Spectral waveforms
Audible sounds

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What is the most important factor that influences the calculation of the Doppler shift?

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Angle of insonation

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What angle would cause an ideal orientation for allowing the largest Doppler shift? What’s the COS?

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Angle of 0

Cos0=1

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What occurs when the blood flow when the angle is at 90deg?

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There is no flow/shift detected because there is no measurable frequency

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What is the angle of the transducer to the body to create blood flow?

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30-60 deg to the blood vessel

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Why do we want an insonation angle of 60deg?

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Reduces the margin of error and is reproducible

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What occurs when the Doppler angle is greater then 60deg?

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Difficult to quantify because the errors in estimating the Doppler angle relative to the reflector velocity and spectral broadening which lead to errors in estimates of peak frequencies

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How does the angle of insonation affect venous flow? (3)

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  1. Angle is not important
  2. Velocities are not used
  3. Angle correct is set to zero
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Examples of how the angles of insonation affects velocities

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60deg - vel 124cm/s
34 deg - vel 68cm/s
79deg - vel 286cm/s

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What is the simplest Doppler device?

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CW Doppler

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What happens to the returning signals of CW Doppler?

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Returning signals are amplified and filtered therefore only allowing US frequencies or higher

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Is there an image produced with CW Doppler?

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No

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Is it possible to set a depth and region to sample with CW Doppler? Why?

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No because of the continuous nature of the transmitting frequency

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What is an advantage of CW?

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It can measure high velocities so there is no aliasing!

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What is pulsed Doppler?

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Sound pulses produced by the transducer at regular intervals

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Can the operator adjust the controls to isolate signals from a desired depth in pulsed Doppler? Why?

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Yes because the pulses are sent at set intervals

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Can pulsed Doppler accurately receives signals from all depths?

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No it is limited to certain depths

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What factor limits the accurate measurement of high velocities by producing aliasing?

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PRF

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When does aliasing occur?
When the Doppler shift exceeds 1/2 PRF
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What is the name of the limit that determines if aliasing occurs?
Nyquist limit
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What is the Nyquist limit?
When the Doppler shift exceeds 1/2 PRF
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Why does aliasing occur?
Insufficient time to collect signal information before the next pulse is sent out
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What is Duplex Doppler?
The combination of Doppler instruments and realtime B mode
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What is Fast Fourier transform?
The separation of the received Doppler shifts into individual frequency components and then displayed on a monitor
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What does quadrate detection do?
Processes the signal as a + or - valve depending on direction of flow relative to the Doppler beam
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What is pulsatility?
Relationship of the peak to min velocities over the mean velocity of an entire cycle
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What are the types of pulsatility waveforms?
Low, moderate or high pul. Waveforms
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What is resistivity?
Relationship of peak systolic velocity to end diastolic velocity
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What type of resistance waveforms are there?
Low or high
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Describe low resistance waveforms
Diastolic flow above zero
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Describe high resistance waveforms
Shows reversed flow in early diastole
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What type of waveform that provides a constant flow of blood? What organs need this?
Low resistance waveforms | Brain, kidneys, liver, spleen
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What type of assessment does resistivity provide?
Qualitative and Quantitative
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What is the most common type of flow pattern?
Laminar flow
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Describe the laminar flow pattern
- all particles moves forward in concentric rings | - highest velocity in the centre and gradually decreases as they approach the wall
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What is the average velocity of laminar parabolic flow equal to?
1/2 the maximum velocity
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What profiles describe parabolic flow?
Plug and Blunt
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What are factors affecting parabolic flow? (3)
- Velocity - Changes in diameter of vessel - Curves, bifurcations and branch origins
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Describe disturbed pattern
- Friction and energy looses start to disrupt laminar flow - Still forward flow but in diverging directions - Mild version of turbulence
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Is disturbed flow considered normal?
Yes
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Describe turbulent flow
- non-linear flow - multiple directions (back and forth) - multiple velocity of blood particles
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Is turbulent flow considered normal?
No
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What does the adjutant of gain allow for?
Allow visualization without unwanted signal
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What does to high of gain cause?
False spectral broadening | Background noise or mirror image
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What does baseline do?
Adjusts to allow entire spectral signal to be seen
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What happens when the baseline is to high?
Aliasing
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What does a wall filter do?
Eliminates low frequency noise
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How should the wall filter be adjusted to optimize image?
Adjust so that low velocities are not missed on arterial or venous flow states
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How should scale, PRF and velocity range be adjusted?
Adjusted so all peak and min velocities are seen
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What are the 2 main methods to display Color?
1. Standard method color | 2. Power Doppler
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What is power Doppler?
Power or intensity of the signal so measured rather then Doppler shift
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What is power Doppler based on?
Density of RBCs not speed
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Does aliasing occur with spectral Doppler?
No
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Is power Doppler more or less sensitive of the Doppler angle?
More sensitive and independent
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What is power Doppler used to access?
Small vessels Tissue perforation Slow flow
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Why is power Doppler the preferred method when contrast is used?
Less subject to blooming
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Why is power Doppler not suitable when motion of tissue or pt is unavoidable?
Because it has a very slow FR
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Can flow direction be detected with power Doppler?
Not usually - power directional Doppler must be used to determine direction of flow
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What is color Doppler?
Stationary reflectors make up the gray scale portion of the image Moving reflectors generate a Doppler shift and are shown within boundaries of color box
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What creates the Doppler shift in color Doppler?
Interference with moving RBCs
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What does color Doppler represent?
Mean frequency shift
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What is the significance of color coding in color Doppler?
Corresponds to the direction and velocity
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How does color Doppler create a real time image of frequency shifts related to movement?
Uses hundreds of scan sites along multiple scan lines
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What is autocorrelation?
Uses 6-20 pulses per scan line to provide info about received echos
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What information does a returning echo provide?
- direction - average frequency shift - power or amplitude - variance
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Is color Doppler qualitative or quantitative?
Qualitative
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Why does color mode degrade the B mode image?
Because color mode reduces the PRF
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When adding color flow to imaging, what happens to the frame rate?
FR decreases
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Does the height affect the FR?
No
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What happens to the FR when the box is narrowed?
FR increases
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What is the color flow derived from?
Weak echos from RBCs
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What type of bar or wheel color maps are available?
Shifting hue Changing shade Variance maps
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What is the most common color map?
Shifting hue
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What is another name for changing shade?
Saturation
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Which color map has the ability to "tag" certain frequencies?
Variance maps
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How do you optimize velocity range?
High flow/ high PRF | Low flow/ low PRF
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How does the FOV (depth) affect color optimization?
Greater depth to an area of interest degrades the image and ability to display flow
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What happens when the Color scale (PRF) is to low?
Aliasing
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What happens to the image when the Color scale (PRF)to to high?
Flow not being detected and/or poor color fill in
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What is the most underused control?
Gain
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What results when insufficient gain is used?
Poor color fill in
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How do you properly adjust for gain?
Increased to a point of blooming/bleeding artifact then back to the thereshold
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What's the threshold for gain?
Gain level just before blooming occurs
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What is color priority?
Image processing priority- color vs grey scale
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What happens when the wall filter is set to high?
Eliminate low flow information (near baseline)
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Why should the baseline be adjusted to the middle of scale?
To accommodate more red or blue velocities (not usually done)
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When is power/angio used?
In cases of trickle flow or low flow states
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What is mirror image artifact?
Reflection of the image produced below Seen in grey scale, color and spectral See pg. 17
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What can occur if your color gain is set to high?
May obscure pathology
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When would color flash occur?
When transmitted pulses or adjacent motion will cause color to flash outside the vessel (heart motion)
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What is visible bruit?
Soft tissue vibration adjacent to area of high flow

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