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Ch 7 Range Equation & Ch 8 Transducer Basics Flashcards

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What is time of flight also called?

A

go-return-time

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What is time of flight?

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Elapsed time from pulse creation to pulse reception

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How is time of flight related to depth?

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Directly, shallow imaging = shorter ToF, deep imaging = longer ToF

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How do you calculate depth from go-return time?

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1.54 (mm/us) x go-return time (us) / 2

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When does the 13 microsecond rule apply?

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Whenever sound is traveling through soft tissue

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What is the 13 microsecond rule?

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For every 13 us of go-return-time, the object creating the reflection is 1 cm deeper into the body

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If GRT is 26 us, how deep is the structure creating the reflection?

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2 cm deep

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If GRT is 26 us, what is the total distance traveled by the pulse?

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4 cm

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How is PRP related to go-return time?

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PRP is the go-return time of a sound pulse between the transducer and the bottom of the image

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10
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How is PRP related to depth?

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Directly related

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If depth is 10 cm, how long is the PRP?

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130 us

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If depth is 5 cm what is PRP?

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5 x 13 = 65 us

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13
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How far can sound travel in 1 second?

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To & from a depth of 77,000 cm, or to & from a depth of 7.7 cm 10,000 times

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How is PRF related to depth?

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Inversely

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When depth is shallow, PRF is

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High (can travel to & from depth more times/sec)

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When depth is deep, PRF is

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Low (to & from depth less time/sec)

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17
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How is PRF calculated using depth?

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PRF = 77,000 (cm/s) / depth (cm)

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18
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What is a transducer?

A

Any device that converts one form of energy to another

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19
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How does an US machine convert energy?

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Electrical to acoustic

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20
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What are the two functions of transducers?

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Transmission and reception

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21
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What is transmission?

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Electrical energy from the system is converted to sound

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22
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What is reception?

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Reflected sound pulse is converted into electricity

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What is the piezoelectric effect?

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The property of certain materials to create voltage when they are mechanically deformed or when pressure is applied to them

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What is reverse piezoelectric effect?

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Materials change shape when voltage is applied

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What are piezoelectric materials AKA?
Ferroelectric materials
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What are piezoelectric materials?
Materials which convert sound into electricity and vice versa
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How are piezoelectric materials sourced?
Some are natural ex. Quartz, tourmaline, in US mostly synthetic
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What is a common synthetic piezoelectric material used in US?
Lead zirconate titanate (PZT)
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What are the 7 components of a basic transducer?
- case - electrical shield - acoustic insulator - PZT/active element - wire - matching layer - backing layer
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What does the transducer case do?
- protects the internal components of the transducer from damage - insulates the patient from electrical shock
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What is the electrical shield?
Thin metallic barrier lining inside of case - prevents electrical signals in the air from contaminating clinically important signals
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What is the acoustic insulator?
Cork or rubber layer, isolates internal components from case and prevent vibrations in the case from inducing electrical voltage in PZT
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What results in reflections at boundaries?
Differences in impedance
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The impedance of PZT compared to impedance of skin is
20 times greater
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If sound traveled directly from the PZT to skin what would happen?
Majority of sound would reflect back into PZT, only a small fraction would transmit, resulting in extremely limited clinical imaging
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What does the matching layer do?
It provides an impedance in between the active element and skin
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How does the matching layer affect reflections?
decreases reflection at the boundary of PZT and skin, increases transmission
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What does gel do?
Provides an impedance in between the matching layer and skin, “coupling” transducer to patient
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Order in decreasing order of impedance: Gel, matching layer, PZT, skin
PZT > matching layer > gel > skin
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How thick is the matching layer?
1/4 wavelength thick
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How thick is the active element?
1/2 wavelength thick
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What is backing material AKA? What does it do?
Damping material, keeps pulses short
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What would happen without backing material?
PZT will vibrate longer than it should
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If the PZT vibrates for too long how does it affect the image?
Pulse has increased length and duration, image has lower resolution and accuracy
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What are the characteristics of damping material?
- high degree of sound absorption - acoustic impedance similar to PZT
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Why does the backing material need to have similar impedance to PZT?
Sound pulse moves from PZT into backing material where it is absorbed
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What are three consequences of using backing material?
1. Decreased sensitivity 2. Wide bandwidth 3. Low quality factor
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Why does backing material cause decreased sensitivity?
- reduces PZT vibration during transmission and reception - makes transducers less responsive to small sound reflections returning from body
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What is bandwidth?
Range of frequencies in the pulse
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How does backing material create wide bandwidth?
PZT is restricted from vibrating freely, short duration sound click is released containing sound at many different frequencies
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What kind of bandwidth do continuous wave transducers produce?
Narrow bandwidth due to lack of backing material
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If a transducer with a 3 MHz frequency produces a pulse ranging from 1-5 MHz, what is the bandwidth?
5-1 = 4 MHz
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Long duration events are ________ bandwidth, short duration events are _______ bandwidth.
Narrow, wide
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What is quality factor?
A unitless number inversely related to bandwidth
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How is quality factor calculated?
QF = main frequency / bandwidth
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Why does backing material cause low quality factor?
Backing material causes wide bandwidth which results in low QF
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Which probes have a low Q factor? Which probes have high Q factor?
Wide bandwidth, narrow bandwidth

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