Grayscale Imaging Artifacts

Grayscale Imaging Artifacts
SPI Exam Prep

Grayscale Imaging Artifacts

This video lesson covers grayscale ultrasound imaging artifacts, explaining how they occur, why they matter clinically, and how to identify and differentiate between equipment defects, anatomic artifacts, and true pathology. Students learn the fundamental assumptions of ultrasound machines and explore specific artifact types including posterior enhancement, posterior shadowing, focal banding, and mirror image artifact.

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Hello and welcome to Pre's ultrasound Physics Registry Review course. I'm Jenna Laquerre, an AR DMS certified sonographer in your guide through the exciting journey of ultrasound physics. In today's course, we're gonna be reviewing gray skill imaging artifacts, which are relevant to the SPI examination. An artifact in ultrasound is an imaging error where the echo does not represent actual bodily...

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