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Components of Ultrasound Machine
Ultrasound unit
Transducer
Ultrasound Unit
Computer
Converts forms of electrical energy to digital energy
Translates binary information into images
Stores information
Trasnucer
Takes in electrical energy that reacts with a piezoelectric crystal that converts it to sound energy that is reflected against bodily tissues back to the transducer that gets processed into an image
Sector Transducer
Used for trasnthoracic echo.

Image Shape of Sector Transducer
Pie-shaped

TEE Transducer
Used for transesophageal echo.

Frequency
Number of cycles/second

Field of View
Width and depth of image
Affects frame rate

Focus
Area where resolution is best
Can be adjusted to different depths

Gain
Increases/decreases amplitude of entire image

TGC
Increases/decreases amplitude at specific depths

Zoom
Magnifies area of interest

Dynamic Range
Increased = more gray
Decreased = black/white

B-Color
Brightness color
Colorizes gray-scale image

Reject
Filter to get rid of lower-level echos
Can improve resolution

Attenuation
Loss of energy due to absorption, reflection, diffraction
Enhancement/shadowing
Enhancement

Shadowing

Beam Dimension
Beamwidth
Slice thickness
Sidelobe & grating lobe
Sidelobe
Extra beams of sound energy outside main ultrasound beam that result in extra echoes

Depth of Origin
Propagation speed
Range ambiguity
Beam Path
Reverberation
Refraction
Mirror-image
Reverberation
Bouncing of sound energy between structures resulting in multiple reflections appearing on the image

Mirror-Image
A duplication of structure(s) on the image due to sound bouncing between structures

How to eliminate sound artifacts
Move transducer
Adjust gain/TGC
Decrease power
Artifacts must be disproven by...
Imaging in multiple angles - otherwise can be mistaken for pathology
How to achieve ALARA
Use lowest power possible
Limit time exposure
Thermal Bioeffects
Heating tissues
Mechanical Bioeffects
Cavitation
Micro-steaming - high velocity fluid movement
Radiation force