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Why use ultrasound for medical imaging?
The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are In
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)Is there an upper frequency limit to ultrasound?How is it possible for an Ultrasound device to correctly interpret a negative density change in tissue?How specifically does an MRI machine build an image from received radio wavesIs it possible to send modulated ultrasound wave from underwater to air?Why the Doppler Ultrasound beam needs to be looking directly down at a pipeIntensity of an ultrasound beam?Dynamic range of ultrasound machine expressed in dBUltrasound wave/beam generationDoppler effect of sound waves in bloodAveraging speed of ultrasound between two differnt boundaires
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What advantage does ultrasound have over sound between 20-20000Hz that it is used in medical imaging over sound in that frequency range?
energy acoustics frequency wavelength medical-physics
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What advantage does ultrasound have over sound between 20-20000Hz that it is used in medical imaging over sound in that frequency range?
energy acoustics frequency wavelength medical-physics
edited 9 hours ago
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your edits are quite helpful, but can I ask why you do edits so frequently?
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Homework-like question, lack of effort.
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– Pieter
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What advantage does ultrasound have over sound between 20-20000Hz that it is used in medical imaging over sound in that frequency range?
energy acoustics frequency wavelength medical-physics
edited 9 hours ago
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What advantage does ultrasound have over sound between 20-20000Hz that it is used in medical imaging over sound in that frequency range?
energy acoustics frequency wavelength medical-physics
energy acoustics frequency wavelength medical-physics
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your edits are quite helpful, but can I ask why you do edits so frequently?
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– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
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Tagging is important, it helps people find things, helps the system that auto-identified related content, and enables meaningful analysis of site usage patterns. BUt good tagging takes time, attention to detail, and a minimum level of expertise so that you can identify the relevant tags.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
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Homework-like question, lack of effort.
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– Pieter
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you have a point, I’ll try to stop posting trivial questions from now on
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– Ubaid Hassan
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your edits are quite helpful, but can I ask why you do edits so frequently?
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– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
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Tagging is important, it helps people find things, helps the system that auto-identified related content, and enables meaningful analysis of site usage patterns. BUt good tagging takes time, attention to detail, and a minimum level of expertise so that you can identify the relevant tags.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
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Homework-like question, lack of effort.
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– Pieter
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you have a point, I’ll try to stop posting trivial questions from now on
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– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
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your edits are quite helpful, but can I ask why you do edits so frequently?
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– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
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your edits are quite helpful, but can I ask why you do edits so frequently?
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– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
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Tagging is important, it helps people find things, helps the system that auto-identified related content, and enables meaningful analysis of site usage patterns. BUt good tagging takes time, attention to detail, and a minimum level of expertise so that you can identify the relevant tags.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
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Tagging is important, it helps people find things, helps the system that auto-identified related content, and enables meaningful analysis of site usage patterns. BUt good tagging takes time, attention to detail, and a minimum level of expertise so that you can identify the relevant tags.
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– dmckee♦
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Homework-like question, lack of effort.
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– Pieter
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Homework-like question, lack of effort.
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– Pieter
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you have a point, I’ll try to stop posting trivial questions from now on
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I think the simple answer here is resolution.
Generally when imaging with waves (including light) the limit to resolution is a length that is similar to the wavelength, $lambda$.
If $f$ is the frequency and $c$ is the speed of the wave then the wavelength is given by
$$lambda = c over f $$
so the higher we make $f$ the smaller $lambda$ becomes and the better the resolution and the more detail we can see in scans....
The speed of sound in water is ~1500 m/s and with say 1.5 MHz = 1 500 000 Hz frequency we calculate
$$lambda = 0.001 rm m = 1 rm mm$$
At 20000 Hz $lambda = 75$ mm
answered 9 hours ago
tomtom
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Is it correct to say wavelength is inversely proportional to resolution? Or that sound wave frequency is directly proportional to resolution?
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– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
1
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The correct statement is in terms of wavelength. That said, for non-dispersive waves (which is reasonably true for sound) in consistent media (not really true for medical ultra-sounds) the wavelength statements implies the frequency one as a corollary.
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8 hours ago
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Using waves for imaging, you want to distinguish points in the specimen. Consider the simplest case: you'd like to distinguish 2 discs (or spheres).
The waves are coming from behind the specimen passing through the circle or the waves are reflected on the circle. Considering the phase relationship of the waves at the detector (i.e. investigating interference) because of the diffraction on the 1 circle, even with focusing, one cannot get a single point on the detector. Take a look on the single slit diffraction and on the 2D version, on the Airy disk.
On the focused image you will get concentric circles. For $alpha$, the angular distance between the two most visible, inner ones one gets
$$lambda /left( 2d right) = sin left( alpha right) approx alpha ,$$
where $lambda$ corresponds to the wavelength and $d$ is the size of disc (therefore, your discs cannot be closer than this). With a huge, $180^circ$ imaging device one can resolve a distance of $lambda/2$. It can be seen that the achievable resolution (resolvable smallest distance) is proportional to wavelength.
And as it is known,
$$lambda = c/f,$$
where $c$ is the speed of the wave and $f$ is frequency, the higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength is, increasing the achievable resolution.
Estimation
You can make an estimation on the achievable resolution. You'd like to do measurements in a human body. That consists of water mainly, the speed of sound in the water is $1500m/s$. At $20textKHz$ the resolvable distance is
$$frac1500textm/texts2 cdot 20textkHz = 3.75textcm.$$
We considered only 2D imaging here, but similar applies to 3D where you'd like to get information in 3D. In 3D one measures the time difference between the emission and detection of the signal, and using the $v=s/t$ formula, the distance of the object can be calculated.
answered 8 hours ago
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Higher frequency provides higher resolution.
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I think the simple answer here is resolution.
Generally when imaging with waves (including light) the limit to resolution is a length that is similar to the wavelength, $lambda$.
If $f$ is the frequency and $c$ is the speed of the wave then the wavelength is given by
$$lambda = c over f $$
so the higher we make $f$ the smaller $lambda$ becomes and the better the resolution and the more detail we can see in scans....
The speed of sound in water is ~1500 m/s and with say 1.5 MHz = 1 500 000 Hz frequency we calculate
$$lambda = 0.001 rm m = 1 rm mm$$
At 20000 Hz $lambda = 75$ mm
answered 9 hours ago
tomtom
6,42711627
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Is it correct to say wavelength is inversely proportional to resolution? Or that sound wave frequency is directly proportional to resolution?
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– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
1
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The correct statement is in terms of wavelength. That said, for non-dispersive waves (which is reasonably true for sound) in consistent media (not really true for medical ultra-sounds) the wavelength statements implies the frequency one as a corollary.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
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$begingroup$
I think the simple answer here is resolution.
Generally when imaging with waves (including light) the limit to resolution is a length that is similar to the wavelength, $lambda$.
If $f$ is the frequency and $c$ is the speed of the wave then the wavelength is given by
$$lambda = c over f $$
so the higher we make $f$ the smaller $lambda$ becomes and the better the resolution and the more detail we can see in scans....
The speed of sound in water is ~1500 m/s and with say 1.5 MHz = 1 500 000 Hz frequency we calculate
$$lambda = 0.001 rm m = 1 rm mm$$
At 20000 Hz $lambda = 75$ mm
answered 9 hours ago
tomtom
6,42711627
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$begingroup$
Is it correct to say wavelength is inversely proportional to resolution? Or that sound wave frequency is directly proportional to resolution?
$endgroup$
– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
1
$begingroup$
The correct statement is in terms of wavelength. That said, for non-dispersive waves (which is reasonably true for sound) in consistent media (not really true for medical ultra-sounds) the wavelength statements implies the frequency one as a corollary.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
I think the simple answer here is resolution.
Generally when imaging with waves (including light) the limit to resolution is a length that is similar to the wavelength, $lambda$.
If $f$ is the frequency and $c$ is the speed of the wave then the wavelength is given by
$$lambda = c over f $$
so the higher we make $f$ the smaller $lambda$ becomes and the better the resolution and the more detail we can see in scans....
The speed of sound in water is ~1500 m/s and with say 1.5 MHz = 1 500 000 Hz frequency we calculate
$$lambda = 0.001 rm m = 1 rm mm$$
At 20000 Hz $lambda = 75$ mm
answered 9 hours ago
tomtom
6,42711627
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I think the simple answer here is resolution.
Generally when imaging with waves (including light) the limit to resolution is a length that is similar to the wavelength, $lambda$.
If $f$ is the frequency and $c$ is the speed of the wave then the wavelength is given by
$$lambda = c over f $$
so the higher we make $f$ the smaller $lambda$ becomes and the better the resolution and the more detail we can see in scans....
The speed of sound in water is ~1500 m/s and with say 1.5 MHz = 1 500 000 Hz frequency we calculate
$$lambda = 0.001 rm m = 1 rm mm$$
At 20000 Hz $lambda = 75$ mm
answered 9 hours ago
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edited 9 hours ago
answered 9 hours ago
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answered 9 hours ago
tomtom
6,42711627
answered 9 hours ago
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Is it correct to say wavelength is inversely proportional to resolution? Or that sound wave frequency is directly proportional to resolution?
$endgroup$
– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
1
$begingroup$
The correct statement is in terms of wavelength. That said, for non-dispersive waves (which is reasonably true for sound) in consistent media (not really true for medical ultra-sounds) the wavelength statements implies the frequency one as a corollary.
$endgroup$
– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Is it correct to say wavelength is inversely proportional to resolution? Or that sound wave frequency is directly proportional to resolution?
$endgroup$
– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
1
$begingroup$
The correct statement is in terms of wavelength. That said, for non-dispersive waves (which is reasonably true for sound) in consistent media (not really true for medical ultra-sounds) the wavelength statements implies the frequency one as a corollary.
$endgroup$
– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
$begingroup$
Is it correct to say wavelength is inversely proportional to resolution? Or that sound wave frequency is directly proportional to resolution?
$endgroup$
– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
$begingroup$
Is it correct to say wavelength is inversely proportional to resolution? Or that sound wave frequency is directly proportional to resolution?
$endgroup$
– Ubaid Hassan
8 hours ago
1
1
$begingroup$
The correct statement is in terms of wavelength. That said, for non-dispersive waves (which is reasonably true for sound) in consistent media (not really true for medical ultra-sounds) the wavelength statements implies the frequency one as a corollary.
$endgroup$
– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
$begingroup$
The correct statement is in terms of wavelength. That said, for non-dispersive waves (which is reasonably true for sound) in consistent media (not really true for medical ultra-sounds) the wavelength statements implies the frequency one as a corollary.
$endgroup$
– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Using waves for imaging, you want to distinguish points in the specimen. Consider the simplest case: you'd like to distinguish 2 discs (or spheres).
The waves are coming from behind the specimen passing through the circle or the waves are reflected on the circle. Considering the phase relationship of the waves at the detector (i.e. investigating interference) because of the diffraction on the 1 circle, even with focusing, one cannot get a single point on the detector. Take a look on the single slit diffraction and on the 2D version, on the Airy disk.
On the focused image you will get concentric circles. For $alpha$, the angular distance between the two most visible, inner ones one gets
$$lambda /left( 2d right) = sin left( alpha right) approx alpha ,$$
where $lambda$ corresponds to the wavelength and $d$ is the size of disc (therefore, your discs cannot be closer than this). With a huge, $180^circ$ imaging device one can resolve a distance of $lambda/2$. It can be seen that the achievable resolution (resolvable smallest distance) is proportional to wavelength.
And as it is known,
$$lambda = c/f,$$
where $c$ is the speed of the wave and $f$ is frequency, the higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength is, increasing the achievable resolution.
Estimation
You can make an estimation on the achievable resolution. You'd like to do measurements in a human body. That consists of water mainly, the speed of sound in the water is $1500m/s$. At $20textKHz$ the resolvable distance is
$$frac1500textm/texts2 cdot 20textkHz = 3.75textcm.$$
We considered only 2D imaging here, but similar applies to 3D where you'd like to get information in 3D. In 3D one measures the time difference between the emission and detection of the signal, and using the $v=s/t$ formula, the distance of the object can be calculated.
answered 8 hours ago
DanielTuzesDanielTuzes
21816
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Maybe "enter link description here" is not the link description you want.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
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$begingroup$
Using waves for imaging, you want to distinguish points in the specimen. Consider the simplest case: you'd like to distinguish 2 discs (or spheres).
The waves are coming from behind the specimen passing through the circle or the waves are reflected on the circle. Considering the phase relationship of the waves at the detector (i.e. investigating interference) because of the diffraction on the 1 circle, even with focusing, one cannot get a single point on the detector. Take a look on the single slit diffraction and on the 2D version, on the Airy disk.
On the focused image you will get concentric circles. For $alpha$, the angular distance between the two most visible, inner ones one gets
$$lambda /left( 2d right) = sin left( alpha right) approx alpha ,$$
where $lambda$ corresponds to the wavelength and $d$ is the size of disc (therefore, your discs cannot be closer than this). With a huge, $180^circ$ imaging device one can resolve a distance of $lambda/2$. It can be seen that the achievable resolution (resolvable smallest distance) is proportional to wavelength.
And as it is known,
$$lambda = c/f,$$
where $c$ is the speed of the wave and $f$ is frequency, the higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength is, increasing the achievable resolution.
Estimation
You can make an estimation on the achievable resolution. You'd like to do measurements in a human body. That consists of water mainly, the speed of sound in the water is $1500m/s$. At $20textKHz$ the resolvable distance is
$$frac1500textm/texts2 cdot 20textkHz = 3.75textcm.$$
We considered only 2D imaging here, but similar applies to 3D where you'd like to get information in 3D. In 3D one measures the time difference between the emission and detection of the signal, and using the $v=s/t$ formula, the distance of the object can be calculated.
answered 8 hours ago
DanielTuzesDanielTuzes
21816
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Maybe "enter link description here" is not the link description you want.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Using waves for imaging, you want to distinguish points in the specimen. Consider the simplest case: you'd like to distinguish 2 discs (or spheres).
The waves are coming from behind the specimen passing through the circle or the waves are reflected on the circle. Considering the phase relationship of the waves at the detector (i.e. investigating interference) because of the diffraction on the 1 circle, even with focusing, one cannot get a single point on the detector. Take a look on the single slit diffraction and on the 2D version, on the Airy disk.
On the focused image you will get concentric circles. For $alpha$, the angular distance between the two most visible, inner ones one gets
$$lambda /left( 2d right) = sin left( alpha right) approx alpha ,$$
where $lambda$ corresponds to the wavelength and $d$ is the size of disc (therefore, your discs cannot be closer than this). With a huge, $180^circ$ imaging device one can resolve a distance of $lambda/2$. It can be seen that the achievable resolution (resolvable smallest distance) is proportional to wavelength.
And as it is known,
$$lambda = c/f,$$
where $c$ is the speed of the wave and $f$ is frequency, the higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength is, increasing the achievable resolution.
Estimation
You can make an estimation on the achievable resolution. You'd like to do measurements in a human body. That consists of water mainly, the speed of sound in the water is $1500m/s$. At $20textKHz$ the resolvable distance is
$$frac1500textm/texts2 cdot 20textkHz = 3.75textcm.$$
We considered only 2D imaging here, but similar applies to 3D where you'd like to get information in 3D. In 3D one measures the time difference between the emission and detection of the signal, and using the $v=s/t$ formula, the distance of the object can be calculated.
answered 8 hours ago
DanielTuzesDanielTuzes
21816
$endgroup$
Using waves for imaging, you want to distinguish points in the specimen. Consider the simplest case: you'd like to distinguish 2 discs (or spheres).
The waves are coming from behind the specimen passing through the circle or the waves are reflected on the circle. Considering the phase relationship of the waves at the detector (i.e. investigating interference) because of the diffraction on the 1 circle, even with focusing, one cannot get a single point on the detector. Take a look on the single slit diffraction and on the 2D version, on the Airy disk.
On the focused image you will get concentric circles. For $alpha$, the angular distance between the two most visible, inner ones one gets
$$lambda /left( 2d right) = sin left( alpha right) approx alpha ,$$
where $lambda$ corresponds to the wavelength and $d$ is the size of disc (therefore, your discs cannot be closer than this). With a huge, $180^circ$ imaging device one can resolve a distance of $lambda/2$. It can be seen that the achievable resolution (resolvable smallest distance) is proportional to wavelength.
And as it is known,
$$lambda = c/f,$$
where $c$ is the speed of the wave and $f$ is frequency, the higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength is, increasing the achievable resolution.
Estimation
You can make an estimation on the achievable resolution. You'd like to do measurements in a human body. That consists of water mainly, the speed of sound in the water is $1500m/s$. At $20textKHz$ the resolvable distance is
$$frac1500textm/texts2 cdot 20textkHz = 3.75textcm.$$
We considered only 2D imaging here, but similar applies to 3D where you'd like to get information in 3D. In 3D one measures the time difference between the emission and detection of the signal, and using the $v=s/t$ formula, the distance of the object can be calculated.
answered 8 hours ago
DanielTuzesDanielTuzes
21816
edited 7 hours ago
answered 8 hours ago
DanielTuzesDanielTuzes
21816
answered 8 hours ago
DanielTuzesDanielTuzes
21816
answered 8 hours ago
DanielTuzesDanielTuzes
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Maybe "enter link description here" is not the link description you want.
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– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
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$begingroup$
Maybe "enter link description here" is not the link description you want.
$endgroup$
– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
$begingroup$
Maybe "enter link description here" is not the link description you want.
$endgroup$
– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
$begingroup$
Maybe "enter link description here" is not the link description you want.
$endgroup$
– dmckee♦
8 hours ago
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Higher frequency provides higher resolution.
answered 9 hours ago
akhmeteliakhmeteli
18.5k21844
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Higher frequency provides higher resolution.
answered 9 hours ago
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Higher frequency provides higher resolution.
answered 9 hours ago
akhmeteliakhmeteli
18.5k21844
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Higher frequency provides higher resolution.
answered 9 hours ago
akhmeteliakhmeteli
18.5k21844
answered 9 hours ago
akhmeteliakhmeteli
18.5k21844
answered 9 hours ago
akhmeteliakhmeteli
18.5k21844
answered 9 hours ago
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your edits are quite helpful, but can I ask why you do edits so frequently?
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Tagging is important, it helps people find things, helps the system that auto-identified related content, and enables meaningful analysis of site usage patterns. BUt good tagging takes time, attention to detail, and a minimum level of expertise so that you can identify the relevant tags.
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Homework-like question, lack of effort.
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you have a point, I’ll try to stop posting trivial questions from now on
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