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Side Lobe Artifact

  • Additional off-axis ultrasound energy
  • Often hyperechoic in far field of fluid filled structure
  • “psuedosludge”

annotated ultrasound side lobe image



sensor position

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Side Lobe Artifact

Side lobe/ pseudosludge




Actual sludge



sensor position

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Side Lobe Artifact

  • Additional off-axis ultrasound energy
  • Hyperechoic in far field of fluid filled structure
  • “psuedosludge”

annotated ultrasound side lobe image



sensor position

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Artifacts in Ultrasound

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Lesson NameMinutes id
Intro and Shadowing1
241
Edges and Mirrors1
242
Sidelobe1 checkmark
243
Reverb Comets and Rings1
244
Doppler and Summary1
245

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