Sonography Week 2025

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Across
  1. 5. A lesion or tissue appearing the same echogenicity as surrounding tissue
  2. 6. Occurs when the blood supply to the tissue in a hernia is cut off
  3. 7. Surgery where gallbladder is removed
  4. 12. Accumulation of fluid within spaces of the abdomen
  5. 13. An ultrasound probe that emits a fan shaped ultrasound beam
  6. 14. Medical detective that uses high frequency sound waves to assess anatomical structures and pathologies
  7. 15. Reduction in amplitude or intensity as sound wave travels through medium
  8. 19. Artifact causing structures to appear more hypoechoic if sound beam isn't perpendicular
  9. 20. Type of twin pregnancy that shares a placenta
Down
  1. 1. Type of twin pregnancy that develops in 2 separate gestational sacs
  2. 2. Deposition of calcium salts in renal parenchyma
  3. 3. The device that is used to generate and receive ultrasound energy
  4. 4. Special ceramic crystal materials that vibrate to produce high frequency sound waves when electric current is applied
  5. 6. A type of fibroid that grows under the lining of the endometrium and may protrude into the endometrial cavity
  6. 8. A method for measuring and displaying the relative stiffness of tissues
  7. 9. Ability to distinguish between two objects in close proximity
  8. 10. Artifact caused by sound waves bouncing back and forth between 2 strong parallel reflectors
  9. 11. Occurs when there is an intrauterine gestation and an extrauterine gestation
  10. 16. Bony prominence at the end of a normal bone contour or at the margin of joint
  11. 17. Setting the modifies the amplification of received echo signals
  12. 18. Benign tumor of vascular origin that appears well-defined and hyperechoic on ultrasound