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Acoustic Propagation Properties   The effects of the medium upon the sound wave  
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Biological effects   The effects of the sound wave upon the biologic tissue through which  
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What is sound?   Carries energy from one place to another, longitudinal, travels through medium not vacuum  
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What is pressure?   Concentration of force in an area  
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What is density?   Concentration of mass in a volume  
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What is distance?   Measure of particle motion  
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What is Period?   The time it takes to complete one cycle  
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Spatial   Refers to distance or space  
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What is peak?   Maximum value  
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What is average?   The mathematical middle value  
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Temporal   Refers to all time transit and receive  
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Pulsed   Refers only to transmit time only  
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Attenuation   Decrease in intensity power and amplitude or weakening of a sound wave  
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Reflection   As sound strikes a boundary a portion of waves energy may be redirected or reflected  
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Specular reflection   When sound is reflected only in one direction in an organized manner from a smooth surface  
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Diffuse reflection   When wave reflects off an irregular surface and it radiates and more than one direction  
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Scattering   Random redirection of sound in many directions  
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Frequency   Number of cycles per second  
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Amplitude   The difference between a maximum and average value  
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Wavelength   The distance or length of one complete cycle  
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Propagation speed   The distance that a sound wave travels through a medium in one second  
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Stiffness   Describes the ability of an object to resist compression  
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Density   Describes the relative weight of a material  
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Pulse duration   The actual time from the start of one post to the end of that post  
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Spatial pulse length   The distance that a pulse occupies in space from the start to the end of a pulse  
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Pulse repetition period   The time from the start of one pulse to the start of the next pulse  
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Pulse repetition frequency   The number of pulses that an ultrasound system transmit into the body each second  
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Duty factor   The percentage or fraction of time that the system is transmitting a pulse  
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Rayleigh scattering   A special form of scattering that occurs when the structures dimensions are smaller than the Beams wavelength  
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Absorption   1 ultrasonic energy energy is converted into another energy forms such as heat  
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Attenuation coefficient   The number of decibels of attenuation that occurs when the sound travels 1 centimeter  
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Half value layer thickness   Distance that sound travels in a tissue that reduces intensity of sound to one half of its original size  
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Impendence   The acoustic resistance to sound traveling in a medium  
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Normal incidence   The incident sound Bean strikes boundary at exactly 90°  
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Oblique incidence   When the incident sound Bean strikes to pound you at any angle other than 90 degrees  
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Piezoelectric Effect   Describes the property of certain materials to create a voltage when they are mechanically deformed  
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Piezoelectric materials   Materials which conversation sound into electricity  
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Acoustic Impedance   Sound obstacle  
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Incident Intensity   Intensity of sound beam immediately before it strikes the boundary  
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Reflected Intensity   Intensity that after striking a boundary returns back or reflects to the TRX  
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Transmitted Intensity   Intensity that after striking boundary continues foward in the same general direction that it travels before  
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Spatial Peak Intensity   The beam's intensity at the location where it is maximum  
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Spatial Average Intensity   The average intensity cross beam's entire cross-sectional area  
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Temporal Peak Intensity   Measuring the intensity of the beam at the instant in time of its maximal value  
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Pulse Average Intensity   Taking averge intensity during the pulse duration(transmit time)  
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Temporal Average Intensity   Averaging the intensity during the entire pulse repetition period-both the transmit and receive times  
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Beam uniformity coefficient   Spread of beam in space  
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Logarithms   Is a novel method of reading numbers  
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Transmission   Is critical to ultrasound's ability to image structures located deep in the body  
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Acoustic Impedance   Is important tissue property that influences the amount of reflection  
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Go-return time or time-of-flight   The elapsed time from pulse creation to pulse reception  
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The 13-Microsecond Rule   Floor every 13 ms of go-return time, the object creating the reflection is 1 centimeter deeper in soft tissue  
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