Reverberation, Comet Tail, Shadow - Video Lesson

Hey everybody. Welcome back to today's lesson on artifacts in ultrasound imaging. This lesson will focus on reverberation, comet tail, and shadowing artifacts, their formation, distinguishing characteristics, and clinical impact. Let's get started. Remember, artifacts in diagnostic ultrasound are image distortions that occur due to the interaction of ultrasound waves with tissue structures. Understanding these artifacts is crucial for accurate image interpretation and avoiding diagnostic errors. Artifacts are frequently encountered when scanning patients, and while some are unwanted, others may reveal valuable information related to the structure and composition the transducer after a single reflection and that the time in which the echo returns is used to calculate the depth of the signal. Violations of this assumption are the basis of a number of commonly encountered artifacts. First