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Images and some of the content from Bertrand, et al. JASE 2016;29:381-91. onlinejase.com/article/S0894-…
Ultrasound waves need a media to travel. Our tissues are that media. All tissues have different acoustic impedances. Air, fat, water, blood, muscle, bone listed in increasing impedance. Always there will be reflected & refracted waves as it traverses different tissue layers.