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Image Artifacts and Pitfalls

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Artifacts are a system-immanent aspect of ultrasonography. They arise due to physical phenomena when ultrasound waves pass through the human body (Table 8.1). Artifacts are disruptive artificial products that make it very difficult to image and evaluate the thorax, especially due to the anatomical features of this region. Artifacts can distort existing structures in terms of their size, position, form, and echogenicity; cause incorrect or incomplete imaging of their topography; or suggest the presence of structures that, in fact, do not exist.

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Schuler, A. (2011). Image Artifacts and Pitfalls. In: Mathis, G. (eds) Chest Sonography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21247-5_8

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