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Ultrasound

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Decks in this class (18)

Lecture 1
Diagnostic purposes of ultrasound,
Therapeutic uses of ultrasound,
Lithotripsy
6  cards
Lecture 2: Waves
What is a transverse wave,
What is a longitudinal wave,
What type of wave is ultrasound
23  cards
Lecture 3: Mathematical preliminaries
What is a scalar,
Write down the full form of grad,
Write down the full form of diver...
8  cards
Chapter 4 : Derivation of the wave equation
What three fundamental assumption...,
What two ways are there of derivi...,
How does the wave equation descri...
9  cards
Chapter 5: Analytical solutions
What is a dispersive medium,
Dispersion relation,
What is geometric spreading
4  cards
Chapter 6: Wave phenomena
Characteristic acoustic impedance...,
Nonlinearity parameter is also ca...,
Continuity of pressure is what
29  cards
Chapter 7: Viscous Absorption
Viscous absorption,
Molecular relaxation absorption,
What does the equipartition theor...
5  cards
Chapter 8: Piezoelectricity and transducers
What is the direct piezoelectric ...,
The separation of two charges is ...,
In some crystal structures the sy...
22  cards
Chapter 9 : Ultrasound fields
Near field,
Far field,
The structure of the beam emitted...
50  cards
Chapter 10: Diagnostic Imaging
A mode imaging,
M mode imaging motion,
B mode imaging brightness
6  cards
Topic 11: Doppler Ultrasound
What is a wall filter,
Explain range gating,
Explain aliasing
11  cards
Topic 12: Elastography
There are different modes of elas...,
What are the two main steps requi...,
What is radiation force based ela...
17  cards
Chapter 13: Photoacoustic imaging
What are the principles of photoa...,
The absorption of light occurs on...,
Thermal confinement
10  cards
Chapter 14: Nonlinearity & Harmonic Imaging
The linear propagation regime has...,
For ultrasound waves with amplitu...,
Under what conditions of the wave...
22  cards
Topic 15: Ultrasound contrast agents
Why do bubbles normally dissolve ...,
What is the extra pressure in bub...,
What is the laplace pressure equa...
25  cards
Topic 16: Ultrasound biophysics and safety
What different ways can ultrasoun...,
Consider a plane wave propagating...,
As discussed in chapter 7 the pre...
43  cards
Chapter 17: Therapeutic applications of ultrasound
The goal of therapeutic applicati...,
What are the applications of ultr...,
What are the two categories of ul...
26  cards
Chapter 18: Metrology
What is acceptance testing,
Subsequent measurements that chec...,
A third category of use of metrol...
19  cards

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