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1
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What are the 3 variables of the range equation?

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  • Time
  • Distance
  • Speed
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What is the time from a pulse being sent to a pulse being recieved called?

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Time of flight.

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When is time of flight short? in superficial or deep structures?

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Superfical.

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4
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The time-of-flight is directly related to what?

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Depth.

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What is the range equation?

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Depth (mm)=(1.54 mm/usec x time-of-flight (us))/2

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6
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For every 13us of time-of-flight, the object creating the reflection is how much deeper?

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1cm

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7
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What is the reflectors depth if a pulses time-of-flight is 26 us?

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2 cm deep.

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8
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How do you find period?

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1/f

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9
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How do you find the frequency?

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1/t

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10
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What is PRP?

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It is the time from the start of one pulse to the start of the next pulse.

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When the depth of view is shallow, what type of PRP would it have?

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Short.

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12
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When the depth of view is deep, what does it PRP look like?

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Long.

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13
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What is the equation for PRP?

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PRP=imaging depth (cm) x 13us/cm

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14
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What is PRP directly related to?

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Maximum imaging depth.

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15
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When the depth of view is shallow, how is the PRF?

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High.

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16
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When the depth of view is deep, PRF is like?

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Low.

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17
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What is the equation for PRF?

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

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18
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PRF is inversely related to what?

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Imaging depth.

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19
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What is “duty factor”?

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It counts how long a pulse is on duty.

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20
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What is the equation of Duty Factor?

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DF %=(Pulse duration/PRP) x 100

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21
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What are the advantages of a Pencil probe/Pedof probe?

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  • Sensitive
  • Inexpensive
  • Inexpensive electronics necessary
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22
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What are the disadvantages of the Pencil probe/Pedof probe?

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  • No image
  • Manual steering
  • Fixed focus for transmiting and receiving.
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23
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Describe a Mechanical transducer: single element

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  • First generation (static scanners)
  • Mechanical steering-single element.
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24
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What are the advantages to a mechanical transducer: single element?

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  • 2D image
  • Wide field
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25
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What are the disadvantages to a Mechanical transucer: single element?

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  • No steering
  • Fixed transmitig and recieving focus.
  • Parts wear out/break,
  • Motion artifacts
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26
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What are the advantages to a Mechanical transducer: Annular array?

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  • 2D
  • Variable focus (lateral, elevation)
  • Wide field
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27
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What are the disavantages to a Mechanical transducer: Annular array?

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  • Motion artifact
  • Parts wear out
  • Limited temporal resolution
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28
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What are the advantages of a Linear Switched Array?

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  • 2D
  • Electronic switches
  • Wide field.
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29
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What are the disadvantages of the Linear Switched Array?

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  • No steering
  • Fixed focus (lateral, elevation)
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30
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What is the Linear Phased Array associated with?

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Hugen’s principle.

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31
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What are the advantages of the Linear Phased Array?

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  • 2D image
  • Electronic pulsed sequencing
  • Variable focus (lateral)
  • Steering.
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32
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What are the disadvantages of the Linear Phased Array?

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  • Expensive
  • Fixed focus (elevation)
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33
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What are the advantages of the Sector Phased Array?

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  • Viable focus in lateral
  • Has a small footprint which aids in intercostal access.
  • 2D
34
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What are the disadvantages to a Sector Phased Array?

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  • Fixed elevation focus
  • Expensive
  • No steering in elevation direction.
35
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What are 4 other types of transducers?

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  1. Transesophogeal
  2. transrectal
  3. Intravascular
  4. Waterpath-standoff
36
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What 4 things can cause damage to transducers?

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  1. Heat
  2. Dropping
  3. Delamination
  4. Cable damage
37
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How does heat damage the transducers?

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It causes:

  • Adhesive failure
  • Depolarization
38
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How does dropping damage the transucer?

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It causes:

  • Cracking case
  • Electrical exposure
  • Loss of probe sensitivity
39
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How does delamination damage the transducer?

A

It causes:

  • Caustic solvents
  • Loss of probe sensitivity
40
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How does cable damage, damage the transducer?

A

It causes:

  • System degradation
  • Loss of probe sensitivity.
41
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What is frame rate also known as?

A

Frame frequency.

42
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What is the time it takes to shoot one image called?

A

“frame time”

43
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What is the equation for Frame Rate?

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FR=1/FT

44
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What is the equation for line time?

A

LT=13us/cm x depth cm

45
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What is the equation for frame time?

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FT= Line time x # of lines.

46
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What does color add to frame time?

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It adds a “packet”

47
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What is the equation for packet time?

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PT=( Line time x # lines repeated )/packet.

48
Q

What happens to the frame frequency and temporal resolution if the frame time increases?

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They both decreases.

49
Q

What are 3 ways to impove frame rate?

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  1. Decrease depth
  2. Turn off color
  3. Decrease width of color box.
50
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What does decreasing the width of the color box do?

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It reduces amount of times a packet has to shoot.

51
Q

What does the transmitter/pulser do?

A

It turns electropotential energy into PZT then into pressure and vice versa.

52
Q

What does the transmitter/pulser sensitivity aid it?

A

Detecting the weakest signal.

53
Q

Increased power transmitted and intensity results in?

A

Improved sensitivity.

54
Q

What happens if you increase the power?

A

It increases exposure to patient.

55
Q

What is power porpotional to?

A
  • Intensity
  • Amplitude (brightness)
56
Q

Gain is _____

A

Power.

57
Q

What is the equation for gain?

A

Gain=20 Log Amax/Amin

58
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What is the “signal-to-noise” ratio?

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It is a comparison of meaningful information (signal) in an image, compared to the amount of contamination (noise).

59
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When is the signal much stronger than the noise AND the image is of high quality?

A

When the signal-to-noise ratio is high.

60
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When is the signal strength closer to the the strength of noise? The image will contain a larger amount of visible contamination.

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When the signal-to-noise ratio is low.

61
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What does increased power do to the signal-to-noise ratio?

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It increases the signal-to-noise ratio.

62
Q

What does the beam former do?

A
  • It creates appropriate phase delays to transmitted signal.
  • Applies appropriate phase delays to recieved signal.
63
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What are 3 characteristics of a beam former?

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  1. Stable
  2. Programmable
  3. Accepts large bandwidth
64
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What is apodization?

A

It is when the beam former adjust electrical spike voltages to reduce lobe artifacts.

65
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What does apodization do to lobes?

A

It decreases lobes.

66
Q

What is the most important thing to remember of a reciever?

A

Reciever functions do not affect exposure to patients.

67
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What are the 5 functions of the reciever?

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  1. Amplification
  2. Compensation
  3. Compression
  4. Demodulation
  5. Rejection
68
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What does a recievers amplification do?

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  • It raises strength of attenuated reflections
  • Strength increases equally for all reflections
69
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What does a recievers compensation do?

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  • It corrects for attenuation as depth increases
70
Q

What is a function that can be used for compensation?

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  1. TGC
  2. DGC
  3. TDC
71
Q

What does a recievers compression do?

A
  • It maintains “relative” difference in reflection.
  • Considers limitations of viewer (shades of grey)
72
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What does a recievers demodulation do ?

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  • It changes signal into suitable form for monitor
  • Rectification→Flips
  • Smoothing→Simplifies the echo
73
Q

What does a recievers reject do?

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  • Removes :
    • Low-level reflections
    • Non-meaningful information/noise
74
Q

What are 6 different types of imagining modes?

A
  1. A-Mode
  2. B-Mode
  3. C-Mode
  4. M-Mode
  5. Real-time
  6. Grey scale
75
Q

What is A-Mode?

A
  • Amplitude
  • it is mainly used in opthamology.
76
Q

What is M-Mode?

A
  • Motion
  • Used in echo.
77
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What is C-Mode?

A
  • Constant
  • Doppler and color.
78
Q

What is the equation for dynamic range?

A

dB=20 Log10Amax/Amin

79
Q

How many dB is in US?

A

100

80
Q

How many dB in the human eye?

A

36 dB (shades of grey)

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