Aya Kamaya, MD
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Characterization of a linear streak artifact with pulse inversion tissue harmonics in musculoskeletal sonography.
J Ultrasound Med. 2004; (12): 1597-605
To understand a linear artifact that projects deep to reflective structures that move rapidly while using tissue harmonic imaging with pulse inversion (PI) sonography. We hypothesize that this artifact is due to a cancellation error between firings in PI imaging, and it is, therefore, similar in generation to the twinkling artifact in color Doppler sonography. This artifact could be studied with the use of surfaces of different roughness to represent different rates of motion, in which roughness corresponds to spatial fluctuations in surface height. Given very slight variations in beam focusing as occurs with sonographic imaging arrays, these spatial fluctuations translate into temporal fluctuations in the received signal as would occur with tissue motion.
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