Artifacts in diagnostic ultrasound

Reports in Medical Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-48

  Hindi, Ammar ^a   Peterson, Cynthia ^b   Barr, Richard G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northeast Ohio Medical University   (United States)

^d Radiology Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; B mode artifacts; Doppler artifacts; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALIASING; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION ARTIFACT; B SCAN; BANDING; BEAM WIDTH ARTIFACT; BULLS EYE ARTIFACT; CLEAN SHADOWING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMET TAIL ARTIFACT; DIRECTIONAL AMBIGUITY; DIRTY SHADOWING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC INTERFERENCE; FLASH ARTIFACT; GRAY SCALE ARTIFACT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INCREASED THROUGH TRANSMISSION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MRROR IMAGE ARTIFACT; PARTIAL SHADOWING; PRECOMPRESSION ARTIFACT; RANGE AMBIGUITY; REFRACTIVE SHADOWING; REVIEW; RING DOWN ARTIFACT; SHADOWING; SLIDING ARTIFACT; SPECKLE; SPEED PROPAGATION; SPURIOUS SPECTRAL BROADENING; TISSUE VIBRATION; TWINKLE; VASCULAR MOTION ARTIFACT; VOLUME AVERAGING; WORM PATTERN;

EID: 84889778963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/RMI.S33464     Document Type: Review

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