Common Intraoperative Ultrasound Artifacts - Casecag.com

Refraction– Falsely Perceived ObjectsRefraction results from the US beambeing deflected from its original path as aresult of passing through a medium witha different acoustic impedanceThe transducer assumes that the reflectedimage originated from the initial scan lineand the image is displayed as such,possibly in a location laterally orotherwise displaced from its true locationThese may be referred to as mirror imageartifacts and may be mitigated bychanging the angle of the US beamMirror Image