Tissues behind a bone can be easily imaged with an ultrasound.

When an ultrasound beam propagates from medium 1 into medium 2, it has 30% reflection from the interface. When another ultrasound beam propagates in the opposite direction from medium 2 into medium 1, the reflection from this interface is

If the ultrasound speed in the tissue is 1540 m/s, how short does the ultrasound pulse need to be in order to resolve a 1-mm thick tissue layer?

A low-pass filter may be used in a homodyne demodulator to remove the signals due to the slow movement of vessel walls in Doppler ultrasound measurements.

Application of a voltage across a piezoelectric crystal causes the crystal either contract or expand depending upon the polarity of the voltage.

The acoustic impedance of a plastic matching layer for a transducer should be as close as possible to that of the piezoelectric crystal.

Signal-to-noise ratio can be improved by using higher ultrasound frequency.

Increasing the degree of transducer damping will reduce the lateral resolution.

The divergence angle of an ultrasound beam from an unfocused transducer decreases with decreasing the transducer diameter.

Ultrasound is a transverse, mechanical wave.