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ARDMS BREAST SONOGRAPHY EXAM NEWEST 2025
COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW VERSION!!!
Artifact - Answer-An echo feature present or absent in a
sonographic image that does not correspond to the
presence or absence of a real structure. Eg. enhancement
or shadowing.
Attenuation - Answer-The reduction of intensity (and
amplitude) of a sound wave as it travels through a
material. Attenuation is due to absorption, reflection, and
scattering.
Complex - Answer-A structure in the body that contains
both cystic and solid components.
Echogenic - Answer-A structure or medium that produces
echoes.
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Edge Shadowing - Answer-Decreased echo amplitude
distal to the edge of a structure. This artifact results from
refraction of the sound beam.
Enhancement - Answer-Increased echo amplitude
returning from regions lying beyond an object that causes
little or no attenuation of the sound beam (typically a cystic
structure). This artifact results in a brighter than normal
appearance.
Heterogeneous - Answer-A structure that has an uneven
texture (hypoechoic and hyperechoic echoes throughout).
Synonym - non-uniform.
Homogeneous - Answer-Smooth uniform texture
Ipsilateral - Answer-On the same side.
Contrlateral - Answer-On the opposite side.
Isoechoic - Answer-Same echogenicity as another
structure or the surrounding tissue.
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Noise - Answer-Spurious echoes throughout the image.
Real-time - Answer-The scanning and display of
sonographic images at a sufficiently rapid rate so that
moving structures can be seen to move at their natural
rate. ***Frame rates of 15 frames per second or greater
are considered real time***
Reverberation - Answer-Artifact causing linear echoes
parallel to a strong interface. Sound "bounces"
Ring Down - Answer-Reverb in which numerous parallel
echoes are seen for a considerable distance. E.g. a biopsy
needle.
Sensitivity - Answer-The ability to diagnose disease in a
patient when disease is present.
Texture - Answer-The pattern of echoes seen from a mass
or area of interest in the body.
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Refractive Edge Shadowing - Answer-Bending of a sound
beam and loss of sound energy causing a shadow.
Mid level gray corresponds to _____ in the breast. -
Answer-Fat
Hyperechoic describes what three structures visualized in
breast sonography. - Answer-Fibroglandular tissue,
Cooper's Ligament, Skin
What frequency transducer is optimal for breast imaging? -
Answer-7.0-15.0 MHz is optimal for superior axial and
lateral resolution while maintaining penetration to the
chest wall. It should also be BROADBAND.
Fixed elevation focusing represents.... - Answer-Focusing
along the short axis of the transducer.
What design of transducer is used in breast imaging? -
Answer-Linear array is optimal
ARDMS BREAST SONOGRAPHY EXAM NEWEST 2025
COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW VERSION!!!
Artifact - Answer-An echo feature present or absent in a
sonographic image that does not correspond to the
presence or absence of a real structure. Eg. enhancement
or shadowing.
Attenuation - Answer-The reduction of intensity (and
amplitude) of a sound wave as it travels through a
material. Attenuation is due to absorption, reflection, and
scattering.
Complex - Answer-A structure in the body that contains
both cystic and solid components.
Echogenic - Answer-A structure or medium that produces
echoes.
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Edge Shadowing - Answer-Decreased echo amplitude
distal to the edge of a structure. This artifact results from
refraction of the sound beam.
Enhancement - Answer-Increased echo amplitude
returning from regions lying beyond an object that causes
little or no attenuation of the sound beam (typically a cystic
structure). This artifact results in a brighter than normal
appearance.
Heterogeneous - Answer-A structure that has an uneven
texture (hypoechoic and hyperechoic echoes throughout).
Synonym - non-uniform.
Homogeneous - Answer-Smooth uniform texture
Ipsilateral - Answer-On the same side.
Contrlateral - Answer-On the opposite side.
Isoechoic - Answer-Same echogenicity as another
structure or the surrounding tissue.
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Noise - Answer-Spurious echoes throughout the image.
Real-time - Answer-The scanning and display of
sonographic images at a sufficiently rapid rate so that
moving structures can be seen to move at their natural
rate. ***Frame rates of 15 frames per second or greater
are considered real time***
Reverberation - Answer-Artifact causing linear echoes
parallel to a strong interface. Sound "bounces"
Ring Down - Answer-Reverb in which numerous parallel
echoes are seen for a considerable distance. E.g. a biopsy
needle.
Sensitivity - Answer-The ability to diagnose disease in a
patient when disease is present.
Texture - Answer-The pattern of echoes seen from a mass
or area of interest in the body.
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Refractive Edge Shadowing - Answer-Bending of a sound
beam and loss of sound energy causing a shadow.
Mid level gray corresponds to _____ in the breast. -
Answer-Fat
Hyperechoic describes what three structures visualized in
breast sonography. - Answer-Fibroglandular tissue,
Cooper's Ligament, Skin
What frequency transducer is optimal for breast imaging? -
Answer-7.0-15.0 MHz is optimal for superior axial and
lateral resolution while maintaining penetration to the
chest wall. It should also be BROADBAND.
Fixed elevation focusing represents.... - Answer-Focusing
along the short axis of the transducer.
What design of transducer is used in breast imaging? -
Answer-Linear array is optimal
