Artefacts Flashcards
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BEAM HARDENING
- Physics based artefact

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PARTIAL VOLUME ARTEFACT
- > differs from PV averaging
- Physics based artefact

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PHOTON STARVATION
- Cause: severe attenuation, loss of photons reaching detector
- Physics based artefact

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UNDERSAMPLING / ALIASING
- Physics based artefact

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HIGH DENSITY MATERIAL ARTeFACT
- Physics based artefact

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MOTION ARTEFACT
- Patient based artefact

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DETECTOR FAILURE / NON-LINEARITY (Ring artefacts)
- Scanner based artefact

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EDGE GRADIENT ARTEFACT
- Physics based artefact

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TRUNCATION
- Physics based artefact

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HELICAL ARTIFACT (Windmill)
- Physics based artefact

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WHAT SETTINGS SHOULD BE USED TO VIEW BULLAE WITH FLUID?

POINT SPREAD EFFECT (also review blooming)
- Physics based artefact
- > Bullae with fluid: Apparent thickening -> worse when use low freq, low and narrow WW/WL due to reduced inherent contrast in this situation cf air-filled bullae which have more contrast. -> BASICALLY MAKE MORE LIKE A BONE WINDOW!

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EDGE ENHANCEMENT ARTIFACT = Rebound / Uberschwinger
- > see pulmonary margin and region of epidural space
- Physics based artefact

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