Sonographer's Week 2025 Crossword!

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Across
  1. 2. : Bending of ultrasound waves
  2. 3. : Technique to measure blood flow
  3. 5. : Power per unit area of beam
  4. 6. : Distance between two wave peaks
  5. 8. : Medical use of ultrasound imaging
  6. 16. : Effect that generates ultrasound waves in crystals
  7. 17. : Ability to distinguish two structures separately
  8. 18. : Tissue that reflects ultrasound strongly
  9. 19. : Handheld part of ultrasound placed on the body
  10. 20. : Adjustment of image brightness
  11. 22. : Compensation for attenuation with depth
  12. 23. : Artifact from sound absorption or reflection
  13. 25. : Person trained to perform ultrasound
  14. 27. : General ultrasound scanning mode
  15. 32. : Graphical Doppler waveform display
  16. 33. : Burst of sound waves
  17. 34. : Brightness mode imaging
  18. 35. : Area of best image resolution
  19. 38. : Brighter than surrounding tissue
  20. 39. : Ratio of transmit time to total time
  21. 42. : Artifact resembling a small bright trail
  22. 43. : Region closest to the transducer
  23. 44. : Relating to sound
  24. 47. : Quality of the ultrasound transducer
  25. 48. : Imaging using multiples of fundamental frequency
Down
  1. 1. : Medium used between probe and skin
  2. 4. : Artifact with increased brightness deep to fluid
  3. 7. : Device that converts electrical energy into sound waves
  4. 9. : Darker than surrounding tissue
  5. 10. : Resistance to sound wave travel in tissue
  6. 11. : Image distortion not representing reality
  7. 12. : Artifact showing duplicated structures
  8. 13. : Artifact with multiple echoes
  9. 14. : Loss of wave energy as it travels
  10. 15. : Same echogenicity as adjacent tissue
  11. 16. : Pulse repetition frequency
  12. 21. : Artifact common in tendons
  13. 23. : Secondary beam causing false echoes
  14. 24. : Distance of tissue imaged
  15. 26. : Number of cycles per second
  16. 28. : Use of microbubbles to improve imaging
  17. 29. : Artifact from wrong sound velocity assumption
  18. 30. : Without echoes, appears black
  19. 31. : Returning of sound waves at tissue boundaries
  20. 36. : Motion mode imaging
  21. 37. : Resolution along the beam axis
  22. 40. : Region farthest from the transducer
  23. 41. : Technique measuring tissue stiffness
  24. 45. : Doppler mode showing blood flow direction
  25. 46. : Resolution perpendicular to the beam