Kremkau Chapter 3 Key Terms Flashcards

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1
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Aperature

A

size of a transducer element or group of elements.

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Apodization

A

nonuniform driving of elements in an array to reduce grating lobes

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Array

A

a transducer assembly containing several piezoelectric elements

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Axial

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in the direction of the transducer axis

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Axial Resolution

A

the minimum reflector separation along the sound path that is required to produce separate echoes

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Beam

A

region containing continuous wave sound; region through which a sound pulse propagates.

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Composite

A

combination of a piezoelectric ceramic and a nonpiezoelectric polymer

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Convex Array

A

curved linear array

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Crystal

A

element

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Curie Point

A

temperature at which an element material loses its piezoelectric properties

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Damping

A

material attached to the rear face of a transducer element to reduce pulse duration; the process of pulse duration reduction.

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12
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Detail Resolution

A

the ability to image fine detail and to distinguish closely spaced reflectors

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13
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Disk

A

a thin, flat, circular object.

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14
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Dynamic aperature

A

aperature that increases with increasing focal length

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dynamic focusing

A

continuously variable reception focusing that allows the increasing depth of the transmitted pulse as it travels.

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Element

A

the piezoelectric component of a transducer assembly

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17
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Elevational Resolution

A

the detail resolution in the direction perpendicular to the scan plane. it is equal to the section thickness and is the source of section thickness artifact.

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18
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Far zone

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the region of a sound beam in which the beam diameter increases as the distance from the transducer increases. aka far field

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Focal length

A

distance from a focused transducer to the center of a focal region or to the location of the spatial peak intensity

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Focal region

A

region of minimum beam diameter and area

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21
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Focal zone

A

length of the focal region

22
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Focus

A

the concentration of the sound beam into a smaller beam area than would exist otherwise

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Grating lobes

A

additional weaker beams of sound traveling out in directions different from the primary beam as a result of the multi element structure of transducer arrays

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Lateral

A

perpendicular to the direction of sound travel

25
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Lateral Resolution

A

minimum reflector separation perpendicular to the sound path that is required to produce separate echoes.

26
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Lead zirconate titanate

A

a ceramic piezoelectric material . PZT

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Lens

A

a curved material that focuses a sound or light beam

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Linear

A

adjectival form of line

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Linear array

A

array made of rectangular elements arranged in a straight line

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Linear phased array

A

linear array operated by applying voltage pulses to all elements, but with small time differences to direct ultrasound pulses out in various directions.

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Linear sequenced array

A

linear array operated by applying voltage pulses to groups of elements sequentially

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Matching layer

A

material attached to the front face of a transducer element to reduce the reflections at the transducer surface

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Natural Focus

A

the narrowing of a sound beam that occurs with an unfocused flat transducer element.

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Near zone

A

the region of a sound beam in which the beam diameter decreases as the distance from the transducer increases; also called near field

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Operating frequency

A

preferred frequency of operation of a transducer

36
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Phased array

A

an array that steers and focuses the beam electronically

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Phased linear array

A

linear sequenced array with phased focusing added; linear sequenced array with phased steering of pulses to produce a parallelogram shaped display

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Piezoelectricity

A

conversion of pressure to electric voltage

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Probe

A

transducer assembly

40
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Resolution

A

the ability to distinguish echoes in terms of space, time, or strength.

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Resonance frequency

A

operating frequency

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Scanhead

A

transducer assembly

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Sector

A

a geometric figure bounded by two radii and the arc of the circle included between them

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Sensitivity

A

ability of an imaging system to detect weak echoes.

45
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Side lobes

A

weaker beams of sound traveling out from a single element in directions different from those of the primary beam.

46
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Sound beam

A

the region of a medium that contains virtually all of the sound produced by a transducer.

47
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Source

A

an emitter of ultrasound; transducer

48
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Transducer

A

a device that converts energy from one form to another

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Transducer assembly

A

Transducer elements with damping and matching materials assembled in a case.

50
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ultrasound transducer

A

a device that converts electric energy to ultrasound energy, and vice verse

51
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Vector array

A

linear sequenced array that emits pulses from different starting points and from different directions