Abstract
In modern ultrasonic digital sector scanners, the interaction between angulated line-of-sight vectors and a square pixel matrix results in Moiré artifacts in the image. These artifacts are a result of non-sampling of some pixels under certain conditions. The conditions which govern the appearance and progression of these artifacts are discussed, and an actual hardware demonstration is given.
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