FInal part II Flashcards
Based on the acquisition and review of information from patients or animals exposed to ultrasound
exposure and response
no need to understand mechanism (+ and -)
biological significance is obvious (+)
species differences may alter results (-)
Strongest conclusion are made when the mechanistic and empirical conclusion are in agreement
- Empirical approach
- Contrast, shrinking and swelling
Resonance, nonlinear behavior
- Primary investigative technique of epidemiology
Reviewing data from patients
- Intensity most related to tissue heating
SPTA
- Bioeffect studies on non-living things
Mechanistic Approach
What type of trans causes less amount of temperature increase
Grey scale image Q.# 13, pg 421
- Possibility of patient technologist shock
Mechanical Transducer
- When is it safe to perform in Ultrasound
When the benefits outweight the risk
- Electronic component used for gray scale imaging
Scan converter pg.241
Preprocessing: TGC, log compression, write magnification, persistence spatial compounding, edge enhancement, and fill-in enhancement
- Know all of the preprocessing and post processing functions
- What function steers the scan lines in different directions
Spatial compounding pg.254
Virtually instant
no degradation of data, and the ability to electronically transmit images
report to remote sites (“store and forward”)
- Advantages of PACs systems
- Advantages of PACs systems
Virtually instant
no degradation of data, and the ability to electronically transmit images
report to remote sites (“store and forward”)
Safe metaboliccaly inert long lasting strong reflector of ultrasound small enough to pass through capillaries
- Know the requirements for contrast agents
- Signal from the transducer to the receiver
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- Know the requirements for contrast agents
Safe metaboliccaly inert long lasting strong reflector of ultrasound small enough to pass through capillaries
harmonics vs fundamental frequencies
Harmonics is double the fundamental frequency
Harmonics has nonlinear behavior
- Accelerations and deceleration of velocities from cardiac contraction
Pulsitile Flow
Acceleration and deceleration of velocities from respiration
Phasic Flow
change in flow direction increased velocity as vessels narrows turbulence downstream from the stenosis pressure gradient across the stenosis loss of pulsitility
- Know the effects of a stenosis
Supine:
Hydrostatic- 0 mmHg
Blood pressure is same (140 mmHg)
Standing: Hydrostatic -ankle - 100 mmHg - knee - 75 mmHg -waist - 50 mmHg -heart/arm - 0 mmHg - Forehead - -30 mmHg - Tip of finger - -130 mmHg Blood pressure is arterial of heart + hydrostatic
- Know hydrostatic pressure at all locations
- Flow pattern with normal physiological states
Laminar Flow
- Reynolds number for turbulent flow?
Greater than 2,000
- Know the effects of a stenosis
change in flow direction increased velocity as vessels narrows turbulence downstream from the stenosis pressure gradient across the stenosis loss of pulsitility
- Know hydrostatic pressure at all locations
Supine:
Hydrostatic- 0 mmHg
Blood pressure is same (140 mmHg)
Standing: Hydrostatic -ankle - 100 mmHg - knee - 75 mmHg -waist - 50 mmHg -heart/arm - 0 mmHg - Forehead - -30 mmHg - Tip of finger - -130 mmHg Blood pressure is arterial of heart + hydrostatic
- What is it referred to when the vessel collapses venous
coaptation
Baseline lower frequency Shallower volume depth Adjust scale CW
- Five ways to eliminate aliasing
- Venous flow in the leg decreases what is the patient doing?
Inspiration
- Doppler shift when source and receiver are moving apart?
Negative
- What is the typical range of Doppler shift
20 Hz- 20KHz
Audible
- Phenomena of high velocities appear negative
Aliasing
able to select the exact location where velocities are measured
- Primary advantages of pulsed wave
- Five ways to eliminate aliasing
Baseline shift lower frequency transducer Shallower sample volume depth Adjust scale CW
- Know what limitation is for color Doppler imaging
No measurement of velocity or direction.
Lower frame rate.
Susceptible to motion of transducer, patient, or soft tissue- flash artifact.