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Common artifacts in ultrasound scanning
Author(s) -
Skolnick M. Leon,
Meire Hylton B.,
Lecky James W.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870030408
Subject(s) - medicine , artifact (error) , distortion (music) , ultrasound , abdomen , acoustic shadow , set (abstract data type) , radiology , interpreter , computer vision , ultrasonography , artificial intelligence , computer science , telecommunications , bandwidth (computing) , programming language , amplifier
Numerous artifacts can occur during contact B scanning of the abdomen. These artifacts may give anatomically inaccurate scans and thus lead the interpreter into making an inaccurate diagnosis. This paper describes and illustrates artifacts resulting from improper scanning techniques, improperly set gain levels, motion related organ distortion, and acoustic reverberations.