title: Common artifacts in ultrasound scanning.
abstract: Numerous artifacts can occur during contact B scanning of the abdomen. These artifacts may give anatomically inaccurate scans and thus lead the interpreter into making an inaccurate diagnosis. This paper describes and illustrates artifacts resulting from improper scanning techniques, improperly set gain levels, motion related organ distortion, and acoustic reverberations.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000175:diagnosis; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D009038:Motion; D012119:Respiration; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014465:Ultrasonics / Q000379:methods; D014463:Ultrasonography; D001743:Urinary Bladder