ARDMS SPI Exam Review TEST 18 October 28, 2017 By Rana Waqar Leave a Comment 1. What is the component of the ultrasound machine used to detect positive versus negative frequency shifts? a. Analog Doppler b. Oscillator c. Fourier transformer d. Phase quadrature 2. Which of the following is true for continuous-wave Doppler devices? a. It only needs to have one piezoelectric element b. It must have at least two piezoelectric elements c. It must have three piezoelectric elements d. No piezoelectric elements are needed for CW Doppler 3. Which of the following will result in aliasing? a. Too low an operating frequency b. Increased sampling of the blood flow c. Undersampling of the blood flow d. Too high a Doppler angle 4. Which mathematical processing technique is used to analyze the data and produce a spectral waveform? a. Amplitude shifting b. Autocorrelation c. Amplitude sampling d. Fast Fourier transform 5. Which of the following represents the resistive index? a. Peak systolic velocity minus the end diastolic velocity divided by the mean velocity b. End diastolic velocity minus the peak systolic velocity divided by the peak systolic velocity c. Peak systolic velocity minus the end diastolic velocity divided by the peak systolic velocity d. Peak systolic velocity minus the end diastolic velocity divided by the end diastolic velocity 6. What does the brightness of the dots that make up the spectral display represent? a. The number of red blood cells present b. The velocity of the signal c. The frequency shift d. The amount of turbulence present 7. What is said to occur when the window of the spectral Doppler display is filled-in? a. There is spectral broadening b. There is laminar flow c. The Doppler gate is small and centered within the vessel d. There is only one velocity at a given point in time 8. In order to add more spectral Doppler waveforms to the display, what setting on the machine should be adjusted? a. PRF b. Sweep speed c. Heart rate d. Gain 9. Which of the following may result if the spectral Doppler gain is too high? a. Too much output power sent into the patient b. Undermeasurement of the velocities c. Overmeasurement of the velocities d. An image that is too dark 10. The Doppler shift is lowest at what angle to flow? a. 0_ b. 45_ c. 60_ d. 90_ Δ For More questions please join Our facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/249298882082586/?ref=br_rs
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