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This document contains a medical physics worksheet about ultrasound scans. It includes 4 questions about how ultrasound scans work, the properties of ultrasound waves, and how dolphins use echolocation to scan for fish. Key details include that gel is used with the ultrasound probe to help transmit the sound waves into the body, the probe contains transducers that produce and detect ultrasound waves, ultrasound waves have a frequency of 5000 kHz and are longitudinal waves, and dolphins can use echolocation to determine the distance of a fish based on the time it takes an echo to return.

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Ultrasound Scans Worksheet - 0

This document contains a medical physics worksheet about ultrasound scans. It includes 4 questions about how ultrasound scans work, the properties of ultrasound waves, and how dolphins use echolocation to scan for fish. Key details include that gel is used with the ultrasound probe to help transmit the sound waves into the body, the probe contains transducers that produce and detect ultrasound waves, ultrasound waves have a frequency of 5000 kHz and are longitudinal waves, and dolphins can use echolocation to determine the distance of a fish based on the time it takes an echo to return.

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Medical Physics

Worksheet

Ultrasound scans
The marks available for each question are shown in square brackets at the end of the question

1. In order to produce an ultrasound scan, like the one shown below, a probe and gel
are used.

(a) Why is the gel used? [1]


(b) In the diagram above the part of the probe that produces the ultrasound
waves is labelled X. What does X contain? [1]

2. A doctor use 5000 kHz ultrasound waves to scan a foetus.

(a) Why can humans not hear these waves? [1]


(b) Ultrasound waves are longitudinal. What is a longitudinal wave? [1]
(c) What is the time period for a 5000 kHz wave? [1]

3. Dolphins also scan using ultrasound. A dolphin hears an echo from a fish 0.02
seconds after it makes a noise (speed of sound in water is 1500 m/s)

(a) How far has the ultrasound wave travelled? [1]


(b) How far away is the fish? [1]
(c) The dolphin swims closer to a distance of 9m from the fish, how long will it
take to hear the echo? [2]
(d) Other than medical imaging, give one other example of scanning using
ultrasound [1]

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