The comet tail artifact appears as a dense tapering trail of echoes just distal to a strongly reflecting structure. This reverberation type of artifact occurs when there is a marked difference in acoustic impedances between an object and its surround. This paper presents a spectrum of comet tail artifacts seen in clinical practice and discusses their usefulness in decision making.
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Thickman et al. (1983) studied this question.