Chapter 19 Flashcards
Creation of everyday doppler shift
The change in frequency as a result of relative motion between the sound source and the receiver
Doppler shifts
are created when transmitted sound waves strike moving red blood cells
Positive Doppler Shift
When red blood cells move toward the transducer
The reflected ƒ is higher than the transmitted ƒ
Negative Doppler Shift
When red blood cells move away from the transducer
The reflected ƒ is lower than the transmitted ƒ
The 2 represents the fact that there are two Doppler shifts during an ultrasound exam
First Shift: Receiver (RBC) moves towards or away from the sound source (probe).
Second Doppler Shift: The RBC is hit with the beam and reflects it back towards the probe, thus becoming the sound source while the probe is now the receiver
Nondirectional Doppler systems
simply measure the presence of moving blood cells by detecting a Doppler shift
Bidirectional Doppler
Bidirectional distinguishes the direction of flow
Doppler spectrum
Flow towards is displayed above the baseline
Flow away is displayed below the baseline
Phase quadrature (quadrature detection)
is the commonly used signal processing technique used to identify direction in bidirectional Doppler systems
Continuous Wave Doppler
Requires two crystals:
One constantly transmits while the other continuously receives the reflected signals from RBC
Advantage: because it is constantly sampling the motion of the red blood cells, CW can accurately measure very high velocities
Disadvantage: Doppler shifts and velocities are arising from the entire length of the beam; therefore, uncertain from where the highest velocity came
A second disadvantage is reflections from deeper RBCs will have lower amplitude
range ambiguity
Doppler shifts and velocities are arising from the entire length of the beam
Duplex imaging
When there is a 2D reference image and PW or CW Doppler graph/display on the screen
interval display
Older systems periodically briefly interrupt the Doppler display (thick black line seen) to update the 2D reference image
simultaneously (display)
both the 2D and the Doppler display are live (the reference image is not frozen and no black update lines interrupt the Doppler display)
dedicated CW or “Pedoff” probe
Cross shaped wand with a spherical footprint
2 crystals in the shape of a semicircle
Pulsed Wave Doppler
One crystal alternates between sending and receiving ultrasound pulses
Advantage: Selecting the exact location of Doppler interrogation called range resolution, range specificity or freedom from range ambiguity artifact
Disadvantage: inaccurate measurement of high velocity signals
Continuous Wave Transducers
While performing CW Doppler with a conventional imaging array probe, a select pair of crystals (and associated electronics) are used for the Doppler
Pulsed Wave Doppler Transducers
is accomplished by a single crystal in the imaging probe
Aliasing
presents as high velocities being cut off and wrapped around our Doppler baseline and displayed as if they are moving in the opposite direction
With audio, aliasing presents as sound arising from the incorrect speaker
the Nyquist Limit
when aliasing will occur in PW Doppler