IMAGING ARTIFACTS IN DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND—A REVIEW |
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| Authors: | Robert M. Kirberger BVSc mmedVet |
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| Affiliation: | Radiology Section, Department of Surgery, Onderstepoort Veterinary Hospital, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. |
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| Abstract: | Imaging artifacts commonly occur during routine ultrasonographic evaluation of patients and contribute to image inaccuracies. These artifacts are classified into artifacts arising from factors controllable prior to imaging or from sound beam interactions within the patient which may result in clinically useful or confusing artifacts. Artifact formation, and how this influences the anatomical image location, echogenicity, size and shape, is described. The clinical interpretation of artifacts is explained in order to gain maximum diagnostic information from an ultrasonographic image. |
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| Keywords: | artifacts ultrasonography imaging |
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