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1. What is the defining visual characteristic of Surface Mode rendering?
Transparent, glass-like appearance from equal voxel rendering "Plastic-like" appearance from rendering only outermost surface signals High-contrast skeletal appearance from maximum intensity voxels Fluid-filled appearance from minimum intensity voxel selection
2. What is the primary clinical focus of Surface Mode in fetal imaging?
Internal organ morphology — cardiac chambers and great vessels Skeletal architecture — fractures and cortical abnormalities External surface anatomy — facial features, limbs, and body contours Vascular mapping — placental and umbilical flow patterns
3. Which anomaly is Surface Mode NOT used to evaluate?
Cleft lip and palate Encephalocele Abdominal wall defects Ventricular septal defect
4. What tissue condition surrounding the ROI produces optimal Surface Mode quality?
Dense echogenic tissue — increases surface reflectivity Adjacent bone — generates high-intensity boundary signals Fluid or hypoechoic tissue surrounding ROI — maximises contrast Surrounding tissue type has no effect on image quality
5. What is the function of the threshold parameter in Surface Mode?
Sets maximum brightness — voxels above threshold appear brighter Defines sweep angle — voxels outside the angle are excluded Sets an intensity cutoff — voxels below are rendered transparent Controls the smoothing level applied to the rendered surface
6. What is the clinical advantage of applying smoothed textural mode?
Maximises resolution by sharpening all surface edges Removes colour mapping to restore greyscale accuracy Reduces aliasing — creates a realistic soft tissue surface appearance Applies a lighting gradient to simulate depth perception
7. What diagnostic purpose does colour or tint mapping serve in Surface Mode?
Encodes flow velocity — replacing Doppler for vascular assessment Purely cosmetic — has no diagnostic impact on the image Replaces greyscale with pseudo-colours to improve tissue contrast Applies a threshold cutoff to exclude background noise
8. In Light Mode rendering, how is brightness distributed across depths?
Closer structures appear darker; distant structures appear brighter All structures illuminated equally regardless of depth Closer structures appear brighter; distant appear progressively darker A lateral spotlight produces asymmetric directional shadowing
9. What distinguishes Gradient Light Mode from standard Light Mode?
Applies uniform illumination from all directions, eliminating shadows Simulates a directional spotlight with precise shadows and highlights Converts colour-mapped images back to greyscale for comparison A post-processing filter applied after reconstruction