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Autocorrelation

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A rapid technique, used in most color Doppler instruments, to obtain mean Doppler-shift frequency.

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Baseline shift

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Movement of the zero Doppler shift frequency or zero flow speeds line up or down on a spectral display.

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Bernoulli effect

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Pressure reduction in a region of high-flow speed

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Bidirectional

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Indicating Doppler instrument capable of distinguishing between positive and negative Doppler shift (approaching and receding flow).

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Clutter

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Noise in the Doppler signal that generally is caused by high amplitude, Doppler-shifted echoes from the heart or vessel walls.

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Color-Doppler display

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The presentation of two dimensional, real time Doppler shift information in color superimposed on a real-time grayscale, anatomic, cross-sectional image. Flow directions toward and away from transducer are presented as different colors on the display.

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Compliance

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Distensibility; non-rigid stretchability a vessels.

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Continues-wave Doppler

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A Doppler device or procedure that uses continuous wave ultrasound.

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Cosine

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The cosine angle A in figure C – 1 is the length of side B divided by the length of side see. Abbreviated COS.

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Disturbed flow

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Flow that cannot be described by straight, parallel streamlines.

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Doppler angle

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The angle between the sound beam and the flow direction.

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Doppler effect

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A change in frequency caused by reflector motion.

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Doppler equation

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The mathematical description of the relationship between Doppler shift, frequency, Doppler angle, propagation speed, and reflector speed.

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Doppler-power display

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Color Doppler display in which colors are assigned according to the strength (amplitude, power, intensity, energy) of the Doppler shifted echoes.

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Doppler shift

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Reflected frequency minus incident frequency; the change in frequency caused by motion.

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Doppler spectrum

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The rate of frequencies present and Doppler shift it echoes.

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Duplex instrument

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And ultrasound instrument that combines grayscale sonography with pulsed Doppler and, possibly, continuous wave Doppler.

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Eddies

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Regions of circular flow patterns present in turbulence.

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Ensemble length

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Number of pulses used to generate one color – Doppler image scan line.

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Fast Fourier transform

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Digital computer inflammation of the Fourier transform.

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Filter

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And electric circuit that passes frequency within a defined range.

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Flow

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To move in a stream; volume flow rate.

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Fluid

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A material that flows and conforms to the shape of its container; a gas or liquid.

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Frequency spectrum

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The range of Doppler shift frequency’s present in the returning echoes.

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Gate

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A device that allows only a goes from a selected depth to pass.

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Hue

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The color precede based on the frequency of light.

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Inertia

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Resistance to acceleration.

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Laminar flow

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Flow in which fluid layers slide over each other in a smooth, orderly manner, with no mixing between layers.

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Luminance

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Brightness of a presented Hue and saturation.

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Parabolic flow

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Laminar flow with a profile in the shape of a parabola.

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Phase quadrature

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Two signals differing by one fourth of a cycle.

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Plug flow

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Flow with all fluid portions traveling with the same flow speed and direction.

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Poise

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Unit of viscosity.

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Poiseuille equation

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The mathematical description of the dependence of Volume flow rate on pressure, vessel length and radius and fluid viscosity.

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Priority

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The gray – scale echo strength below which color – Doppler information is shown preferentially on a display.

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Pulsatile flow

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Flow that accelerates and decelerates with each cardiac cycle.

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Pulsed Doppler

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A Doppler device or procedure that uses pulsed – wave ultrasound.

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Range gating

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Selection of the depth from which echoes are excepted based on echo arrival time.

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Resistance

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Pressure difference divided by volume flow rate for steady flow.

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Sample volume

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The anatomic region from which pulsed Doppler echoes are accepted.

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Saturation

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The amount of hue present in a mix with white.

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Spectral analysis

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Separation of frequencies in a Doppler signal for display as a doubler spectrum; the application of the Fourier transform to determine the frequency components present in a Doppler signal.

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Spectral broadening

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Why didn’t of the Doppler shift spectrum; that is, the increase in the range of Doppler shift frequency’s present that occurs because of a broad and range of flow velocities encountered by the sound being. This occurs for disturbed and turbulent flow.

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Spectral-Doppler display

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The presentation of Doppler information in a quantitive form of Doppler shift versus time. Visual display of a Doppler spectrum.

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Spectral analyzer

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A device that derives a frequency spectrum from a complex signal.

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Stenosis

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Narrowing of a vessel lumen.

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Streamline

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A line representing the path of motion of a particle of fluid.

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Turbulence

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Random, chaotic, multidirectional flow of a fluid with mixing between layers; flow that is not laminar.

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Variance

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Square of standard deviation; one of the outputs of the auto correction process; a measure of spectral broadening.

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Viscosity

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Resistance of a fluid to flow.

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Volumetric flow rate

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Fiamm of fluid passing a point per unit of time.

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Wall filter

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And electric filter that passes frequencies above a set level and eliminates strong, low-frequency Doppler shift from pulsating heart or vessel walls or tissue motion.

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Window

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An anechoic region appearing the need echo frequencies presented on a Doppler spectral display.

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