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Physics 111 Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
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The rule that states that it takes 13 ms for sound to travel 1 cm in soft tissue

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13 ms rule

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Amplitude mode; the height of the spike on the image is related to the strength (amplitude) of the echo generated by the reflector

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A-Mode

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As low as reasonably achievable; the principle that states one should always use the lowest power and shortest scanning time possible to reduce potential exposure to the patient

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ALARA

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The part of the receiver that increases or decreases the received echoes equally, regardless of depth.

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Amplification

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The maximum or minimum deviation of an acoustic variable from the average value of that variable; the strength of the reflector.

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Amplitude

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The part of the digital scan converter that converts the analog signals from the receiver to binary for processing by the computer

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Analog-to-digital (A-to-D) converter

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Without echoes or black

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Anechoic

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The technique that varies the voltage to the individual elements to reduce grating lobes

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Apodization

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9
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Echoes on the screen that are not representative of actual anatomy, or reflectors in the body that are not displayed on the screen

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Artifacts

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Brightness mode; the brightness of the dots is proportional to the strength of the echo generated by the reflector

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B-Mode

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11
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The instrument that shapes and steers the beam on the transmit end

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Beam Former

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12
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The digital language of zeroes and ones

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Binary

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13
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Black and white image

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Bistable

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The smallest unit of memory in a digital device

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Bit

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Eight bits of memory

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Byte

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Display that uses an electron gun to produce a stream of electrons toward a phosphor-coated screen

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Cathode ray tube (CRT)

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17
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A way of processing the pulse to improve contrast resolution and reduce speckle

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Coded excitation

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18
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A type of reverberation artifact caused by small reflectors

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Comet tail

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19
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The function of the receiver that changes the brightness of the echo amplitudes to compensate for attenuation with depth

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Compensation

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The function of the receiver that decreases the range of signal amplitudes present with the machines receiver; opposite of dynamic range

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Compression

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21
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The ability to differentiate one shade of gray from another

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Contrast resolution

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22
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The function of the receiver that makes the signal easier to process by performing rectification and smoothing

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Demodulation

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Part of the digital scan converter that converts the binary signals from computer memory to analog for display and storage

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Digital-to-analog (D to A) converter

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24
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The series of echo amplitudes present within the signal

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Dynamic range

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25
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Refraction artifact caused by the curved surface of the reflector

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Edge shadowing

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26
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Arc-like bands that occur when the machine is too close to an unshielded electrical device

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Electrical interference

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27
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An artifact caused by sound passing through an area of lower attenuation

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Enhancement

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28
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One half of a frame on the display

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Field

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29
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Places pixels where there is no signal information based on adjacent scan lines

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Fill-in interpolation

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30
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One complete ultrasound image

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Frame

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31
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Averages the frequencies across the image to improve contrast resolution and reduce speckel

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Frequency compounding

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32
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The operating or resonating frequency emitted by the transducer

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Fundamental frequency

33
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An artifact caused by extraneous sound not along primary beam path; occurs with arrays; reduced or eliminated by apodization, subdicing and tissue harmonics

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Grating lobes

34
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Displayed echoes that are relatively brighter than the surrounding tissue; may also be referred to as echogenic

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Hyperechoic

35
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Displayed echoes that are relatively darker than the surrounding tissue

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Hypoechoic

36
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Display that uses the twisting and untwisting of liquid crystals in front of a light source

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Liquid crystal display (LCD)

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Motion mode; used to display motion of the reflectors

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M-Mode

38
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The timing component of the ultrasound machine that notes how long it takes for signals to return from reflectors

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Master synchronizer

39
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An artifact caused by sound bouncing off of a strong reflector and causing a structure to appear on both sides of the reflector

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Mirror image

40
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An artifact caused by the beam bouncing off of several reflectors before returning to the transducer

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Multipath

41
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Principle that pressure waves change in shape as they travel deeper, through in a disproportionate way

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Nonlinear propagation

42
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Waves that are not pure sine waves

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Nonsinusoidal

43
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Output power; strength of sound entering the patient

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Output

44
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Receiver function that increases or decreases all the echo amplitudes equally

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Overall gain

45
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Picture archiving and communication system; a type of display and storage device commonly used in ultrasound and other imaging modalities

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PACS

46
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The smallest component of a 2D digital iamge

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Pixel (picture element)

47
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Occurs in the A to D converter; The image must be live

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Preprocessing

48
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Occurs in the D-to -A converter; the image must be frozen

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Postprocessing

49
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Part of the beam former that controls the amount of energy in the pulse

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Pulser

50
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Equation used to calculate the distance to the reflector; in soft tissue, d=0.77t where “d” is the depth of the reflector and “t” represents the round trip time of the pulse

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Range equation

51
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The type of magnification performed in the D to A converter (postprocessing) that magnifies the image by enlarging the pixels

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Read zone

52
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The component of the machine that processes the signals coming back from the patient

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Receiver

53
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The part of the receiver that inverts the negative voltages to positives

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Rectification

54
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Function of the receiver that is used to reduce image noise; sets a threshold below which the signal will not be displayed

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Rejection

55
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An artifact caused by the beam bouncing between two strong reflectors

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Reverberation

56
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A type of reverberation artifact caused by air

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Ring down

57
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The part of the ultrasound machine that processes the signals from the receiver; consist of the A - to - D converter, computer memory, and D - to - A converter

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Scan converter

58
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Created when one or more pulses of sound return from the tissue containing information related to the depth and amplitude of the reflectors

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Scan line

59
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An artifact caused by the failure of sound to pass through a strong attenuator

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Shadowing

60
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An artifact caused by extraneous sound that is not found along the primary beam path; occurs with single-element transducers

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Side lobes

61
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Part of the demodulation component of the receiver; an “envelope” is wrapped around the signal to eliminate the “humps”

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Smoothing

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Algorithm used in signal processing to reduce the amount of acoustic speckle

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Speckle reduction

63
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Dividing the piezoelectric elements into very small pieces to reduce grating lobes

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Subdicing

64
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Harmonic signal produced by the patient and is a multiple of the fundamental frequency; also referred to as native tissue harmonic imaging

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Tissue harmonics

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Time gain compensation; Compensation

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TGC

66
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The smallest component of a 3D image

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Voxel (volume element)

67
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The type of magnification performed in the A -to- D converter (postprocessing) that magnifies the image by redrawing it before it is stored in memory

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Write zoom

68
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the plane that is perpendicular to the beam path

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X-Axis

69
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The plane that is parallel to the beam path

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Y-Axis

70
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The brightness, or amplitude, of the dots on the display

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Z-Axis

71
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Having two possible states

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Bistable

72
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Sequential display of all the frames stored in memory at a controllable frame rate

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Cine loop

73
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A sophisticated form of transmission in which the driving voltage pulses have intrapulse variations in amplitude, frequency, and/or phase

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Coded excitation

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A single one or two way path for transmitting electric signals, in distribution from other parallel paths; an independent transmission delay line and transducer element path; an independent reception transducer element , amplifier, analog - to - digital converter, and delay line path

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Channel

75
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Conversion of voltage pulses from radio frequency to video form. Also called demodulation , amplitude detection and envelope detection.

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Detection

76
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Imaging tissue stiffness by tracking movement under mechanical stress

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Elastography

77
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A backlighted rectangular matrix of thousands of liquid crystal elements

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Flat panel display

78
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Constant display of one of the frames in memory

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Freeze

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