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Q: Why are ultrasound waves partly reflected by body organs?
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Why are ultrasonic waves partly reflected by body organs?

because the waves are sent back to the machine as sound


Which use of sound waves depends on the fact that sound waves are reflected?

ultrasound


What happens when EM waves encounter a medium?

The energy in the wave is partly transmitted, partly absorbed, and partly reflected.


What happens when EM waves encounter a material medium?

The energy in the wave is partly transmitted, partly absorbed, and partly reflected.


How defects in a metal block can be detected using ultrasound?

The ultrasound waves are allowed to pass through metal block to which are fitted detectors to detect the waves. If the metal block has a very small defect, such as an air bubble or a crack, then the ultrasound waves are reflected from such spots. The reflected ultrasonic waves indicates that metal block is defective.


Why is ultrasound monitoring of fetuses similar to mapping the seabed?

Reflected sound waves


What is sonolucent area?

is the area where the ultrasound waves cannot be reflected back at a given frequency


Person who uses sound waves to make images of the body?

A sonographer uses ultrasound to image body organs.


Why are sonograms are made with ultrasound waves?

it is because ultrasound help us to hear sound.it helps to see the muscles tendons and many organs to capture size and structure


What is an echo scan?

It uses ultrasound waves that is reflected off objects within your body to create a picture. A variation on a theme is a Doppler echo that uses the same ultrasound waves to measure rate of flow, for example blood flow through an artery.


High frequency sound that is used in medicine to form images of the body and its organs is called?

They are known as Overtones. If they are beyond the range of human hearing, they are called ultrasound, or ultrasonic waves.


Can you urinate blood after an abdominal ultrasound?

NO an abdominal sonogram/ultrasound will not cause youto urinate blood. If you had that symptom before it was caused by something other than the ultrasound. An ultrasound is a test using high frequency sound waves to take images of your internal organs