Biomedical Ultrasound

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Decks in this class (18)

Acoustic Fundamentals
How does ultrasound imaging work,
What does an ultrasound machine c...,
What does the probe contain
36  cards
Deriving the Wave Equation
What is the propagation of sound ...,
What 3 equations is the wave equa...,
What happens to density when dive...
16  cards
Plane Waves and Geometric Spreading
What is the form on the solutions...,
Which direction does f x ct go,
What are one way wave equations
27  cards
Green's function and Born approximation
What are the fundamental solution...,
What is green s function,
What can any shape of sound sourc...
6  cards
Numerical Solutions to the Wave Equation
What is used in complex wave solu...,
How is a finite difference method...,
What is first order accurate back...
21  cards
Scattering and Diffraction
What are we trying to image,
Which two properties of a wave sc...,
How does a point scatterer that i...
30  cards
Attenuation and Absorption
What is absorption,
What is attenuation,
What is
25  cards
Piezoelectricity
How does an ultrasound transducer...,
What do piezoelectric transducers do,
What do piezoelectric transducers...
23  cards
Ultrasound Transducers
What is a matched load,
What happens when a single positi...,
What happens when l
33  cards
Ultrasound Fields: Single Element
What can the field from a circula...,
How does pressure vary in near fi...,
How does pressure vary in far fie...
25  cards
Ultrasound fields: Arrays
What type of transducers are used...,
What are array dimensions charact...,
How are arrays pulsed
22  cards
B-mode Ultrasound Imaging
What is a mode amplitude mode ima...,
What is an a line a mode,
In what ways can the incident pla...
27  cards
Image Resolution and Artefacts
Why does ultrasound imaging work,
For artefact free perfect resolut...,
What is spatial resolution
31  cards
Doppler Ultrasound
What is the doppler effect,
What happens to the wavelengths a...,
What is considered in order to de...
47  cards
Elastography
What is the difference between di...,
What is elastography,
How is the stiffness estimated
21  cards
Ultrafast Ultrasound
How does ultrafast ultrasound work,
How does the conventional b mode ...,
How can any field eg image acoust...
23  cards
Nonlinear Acoustics
Why is it called linear acoustics,
What real effects are not modelle...,
When are nonlinear effects notice...
32  cards
Harmonic Imaging and Contrast Agents
How can the tissue s nonlinear be...,
What must occur in tissue harmoni...,
What is one approach to s
5  cards

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