The color flash artifact is a commonly encountered artifact on color Doppler ultrasound, representing spurious flow signal arising due to tissue/transducer motion. Physics The flash artifact is caused by movement of reflective tissues (e.g. due to respiration), or the transducer, which generates a Doppler shift, and thus a color signal 1.
mirror- image Color flash artifact can be eliminated by: turning down the gain setting Artifacts appearing as horizontal, parallel, equally spaced lines (like a ladder) are characteristic of reverberation. Flash artifact Flash artifact occurs as a result of motion of the patient or the transducer and presents as a sudden flash of color filling the color box and obstructing the grayscale image. Auto Flash Artifact Suppression White Paper The new ACUSON Sequoia is built with unique and patented BioAcoustic Imaging technologies to virtually eliminate color flash architects and penetrate deeper than conventional ultrasound systems.
The flash artifact can make color Doppler interrogation of structures influenced heavily by respiratory/cardiac movements difficult, if not impossible. This is a commonly encountered problem e.g. in the evaluation of the left lobe of the liver.
Equally important was learning how to balance the contrast of an image and how it can help you eliminate image artifacts. Now that you know the basics of these fundamental controls, you can put them to work for you, enhancing the information that every Ultrasound exam provides for your patient. Ready for round four? All of the following methods can be used to eliminate artifacts except Select one: adjust machine controls image from a different plane maintain body in a supine position move the transducer to another location maintain body in a supine position Artifacts appearing as horizontal, parallel, equally spaced lines (like a ladder) are characteristic of.
Artifacts in spectral and color Doppler imaging can be confusing and lead to misinterpretation of flow information. The authors review these artifacts by considering three main causes: inappropriate equipment settings, anatomic factors, and physical and technical limitations of the modality. These artifacts can adversely affect an automated image quantification algorithm or interfere with a physician's assessment of a radiological image.
This paper proposes a soft wavelet thresholding method to replace regions adversely affected by these artifacts with the texture due to the underlying tissue (s), which were originally obscured. Now, in this short write-up on the Top Ten Doppler (Color and Spectral) Errors and Artifacts, I clearly will not be able to provide all of the contextual physics which makes artifacts valuable or most easily avoided when not beneficial, but I can at least give you a starting point for thought. So this is my list of the top ten errors and artifacts which occur in color and spectral Doppler.