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The Doppler

This document defines various terms related to Doppler ultrasound. It provides definitions for terms like aliasing, angle, autocorrelation, baseline, color bar, continuous wave, cursor, Doppler effect, duplex, gain, hemodynamics, Nyquist limit, observer, packets, perpendicular, PRF, pulse wave, rage gate, ROI, scale, spectral, stenosis, triplex, turbulence, velocity, venous, and waveform. These terms describe concepts related to how Doppler ultrasound works, the display and interpretation of Doppler signals, and the measurement of blood flow characteristics.

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The Doppler

This document defines various terms related to Doppler ultrasound. It provides definitions for terms like aliasing, angle, autocorrelation, baseline, color bar, continuous wave, cursor, Doppler effect, duplex, gain, hemodynamics, Nyquist limit, observer, packets, perpendicular, PRF, pulse wave, rage gate, ROI, scale, spectral, stenosis, triplex, turbulence, velocity, venous, and waveform. These terms describe concepts related to how Doppler ultrasound works, the display and interpretation of Doppler signals, and the measurement of blood flow characteristics.

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Aliasing Incorrect display of direction or scale occurs when the sampling rate it too infrequent.

Angle Intercept between the alignment of the Doppler instrumentation in the transducer and the
blood flow.
Autocorrelation Pulse sampling technique that process compares the change in the phase of the signals that are
registered with one another.
Baseline A line where the Doppler shift is zero.
Color Bar The color displays the velocity range and direction toward or away
Color Flow Pulse sampling technique that process compares the change in the phase of the signals that are
registered with one another.
Continuous Wave Instrumentation has two independent piezoelectric elements that are continuously sending and
receiving along the line of transmission.
Cosign Cosign of the angle. Cosign of zero is one and cosign of 90 is zero.
Cursor The line of intercept used by Doppler instrumentation.
Doppler The Doppler effect is named for Christian Doppler. Doppler described that the frequency of a
light and sound wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.
Duplex Utilizing 2D and spectral Doppler mode.
Flow Relative movement from one place to another.
Gain Amplification of a signal to increase relative intensity.
Hemodynamics The dynamics of blood flow.
HPRF High Pulse Repetition Frequency.
Nyquist limit The limitation of pulsed Doppler by the frequency of pulses that can be emitted and detected.
The highest velocity that can be sampled at any particular location.
Observer The transducer is the observer in this case.
Packets Used in color Doppler, packets are the small gates that detect the direction and mean frequency
shift within a region of interest or ROI.
Perpendicular At ninety degrees intercept.
PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency.
Pulse Wave Instrumentation that uses pulse Doppler technique to sample within a range gate to detect
direction and Doppler shift.
Rage Gate Positioned on a Doppler cursor, this is where the Doppler shift occurs
Real-time Happening at a frequency that appears in real-time.
ROI Region of interest.
Scale The range that velocity or frequency shift is measured.
Spectral The graphics display of the pulsed or continuous Doppler signal.
Steering Moving Doppler instrumentation in a direction.
Stenosis A narrowing of the artery.
Triplex Utilizing 2D, color and spectral Doppler modes at once.
Turbulence Disorganized flow can indicate the severity of the stenosis, just beyond the narrowing.
Velocity The speed or velocity of blood flow or any flow.
Venous Deoxygenated blood that is returning to the right heart.
Waveform The pattern of the Doppler spectral waveform.

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