Pulsed Echo Instrumentation & Displays/Image Processing

Which of the following ultrasound system components determines the firing delay patterns?

• Beam former

• Pulser

• Transducer

• Master synchronizer

Which of the following components of an ultrasound system converts electrical energy to acoustic energy during transmission

• Transducer

• Pulser

• Beam former

• Receiver

Thermal index and Mechanical index measure the output of the ________

• Pulser

• Master synchronizer

• Dynamic range

• Rectification

Output power is adjustable

• True

• False

Innacurate portion of data which degrades the quality of information

• Noise

• Reject

• Thermal index

• ALARA

If an image is too dark, this should be increased first

• Receiver gain

• Output power

• Compression

• Amplification

This changes the brightness of the entire image

• Amplification

• Compensation

• Compression

• Smoothing

Smoothing and rectification are the parts of the _______ process

• Demodulation

• Amplification

• Compression

• Compensation

Demodulation is adjustable by the sonographer

• True

• False

This eliminates low-level noise in our images

• Reject

• Compression

• Amplification

• Demodulation