Ultrasound Awareness Month 2024

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Across
  1. 2. An artifact creating multiple echoes that appear as a series of parallel lines or repetitive echoes behind the structure
  2. 3. The reason that we're celebrating this month!
  3. 5. An artifact that occurs when the angle of the ultrasound beam is not perpendicular to the tissue being scanned, most notable in MSK US
  4. 6. Cross-sectional view
  5. 8. A type of pregnancy growing outside of the expected uterine location
  6. 11. Used when looking for twinkle artifact/stones
  7. 12. When a structure exhibits the same brightness as the surrounding structures
  8. 13. Occurs when the velocity of measured flow exceeds the limits of the set scale or PRF
  9. 17. A handheld device that sends sound waves and receives echoes
  10. 18. Occurs when the endometrium grows into the muscular wall of the uterus
  11. 20. Frequency is inversely related to period and __________.
Down
  1. 1. Total number of adult, MSK, and peds scanning techs in our departments
  2. 4. Alternate term for the hindbrain
  3. 7. Without echoes
  4. 9. A unit used in US to measure the frequency of sound
  5. 10. A technical factor that students don't like to turn down
  6. 14. An organ frequently imaged on pediatric patients, but rarely well visualized in adult patients.
  7. 15. Our fearless leader
  8. 16. The mode that we follow on the adult side when a certain Radiologist with initials W.W. is QCing
  9. 19. Tami's favorite class