Descriptive terms

Transducer

Echogenic lesions reflect ultrasound waves & appear as bright white echoes. eg.gas, calculi, calcifications

Transducer

Hypoechoic lesions partly transmits ultrasound waves appear as intermediate echoes eg.soft tissues, masses

Transducer

 Anechoic lesions transmit all ultrasound waves & appear as black eg. Bladder, fluid collections, cysts

Transducer

Heterogeneous masses of different attenuations appear as masses of different echogenicities

Transducer

 

Hmogenous masses of same attenuation of uniform attenuations appear as masses of uniform echogenicity