In ultrasound technology, which type of sound wave-object interaction creates echoes that are processed to form images?

Ultrasound images are formed from echoes that return to the transducer after sound waves bounce off boundaries between different tissues. This interaction is reflection, so the correct choice is reflection. Refraction bends a wave as it passes between materials, while diffraction is the spreading of waves around an obstacle.

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