Ch. 6 Artifacts in scanning Flashcards
Improper Doppler-shift information from a pulsed wave Doppler or color Doppler instrument when the true Doppler shift exceeds one half the pulse repetition frequency
Aliasing
Echo-free
Anechoic
Movement of the zero Doppler-shift frequency or zero flow speed line up or down on a spectral display
Baseline shift
Series of closely spaced reverberation echoes
Comet tail
Leakage of strong signals in one direction channel of a Doppler receiver in the other channel; can produce the Doppler mirror-image artifact
Cross-talk
Increase in echo amplitude from reflectors that lie behind a weakly attenuating structure
Enhancement
Having relatively weak echoes
Hypoechoic
Artifactual gray-scale, color flow, of Doppler signal appearing on the opposite side (from the real structure or flow) of a strong reflector
Mirror image
Several reflections produced by a pulse encountering a pair of reflectors; reverberation
Multiple reflection
Doppler-shift frequency above which aliasing occurs; one half the pulse repetition frequency
Nyquist limit
Artifact produced when echoes are placed too close to the transducer because a second pulse was emitted before they were received
Range ambiguity
Condition where a driven mechanical vibration is of a frequency similar to a natural vibration frequency of the structure
Resonance
Multiple reflections
Reverberation
Artifact resulting from a continuous stream of sound emanating from an anatomic site
Ring-down
Thickness of the canned tissue volume perpendicular to the scan plane; also called slice thickness
Section thickness
Reduction in echo amplitude from reflectors that lie behind a strongly reflecting or attenuating structure
Shadowing
Granular appearance of images and spectral displays that is caused by the interference of echoes from the distribution of scatterers in tissue
Speckle
Propagation speed that is different from the assumed value (1.54 mm/ms)
Speed error
Axial resolution
Caused by: Pulse length