Attenuation: Part 1

Attenuation: Part 1
SPI Exam Prep

Attenuation: Part 1

This video introduces attenuation, the weakening of ultrasound beam intensity as it travels through body tissue. It covers how attenuation is influenced by absorption, reflection, and scattering, explains the relationship between transducer frequency and penetration, and describes how different tissues (bone, fluid) create posterior shadowing and enhancement artifacts.

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Hello everyone. Welcome to Pre's ultrasound Physics Registry Review course. I'm Jenna Laquerre, an A-R-D-M-S certified sonographer in your guide through the exciting journey of ultrasound physics. As sound waves travel in a medium, they propagate from one structure into another. The region where any two structures meet is called a boundary. In this imaging example, it shows you the boundary...

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