Medical ultrasound includes diagnostic techniques (mainly imaging techniques) using ultrasound, as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound. In...
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Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz. This frequency is the approximate upper audible limit of human hearing in healthy young...
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Breast ultrasound is a medical imaging technique that uses medical ultrasonography to perform imaging of the breast. It can be performed for either diagnostic...
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High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), or MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MR-guided focused ultrasound ablation), is an incisionless therapeutic...
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Abdominal ultrasonography (redirect from Abdominal ultrasound)
called abdominal ultrasound imaging or abdominal sonography) is a form of medical ultrasonography (medical application of ultrasound technology) to visualise...
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3D ultrasound is a medical ultrasound technique, often used in fetal, cardiac, trans-rectal and intra-vascular applications. 3D ultrasound refers specifically...
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magnetoencephalography to localize the source of brain activity. Medical ultrasound uses high frequency broadband sound waves in the megahertz range that...
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Obstetric ultrasonography (redirect from Obstetric ultrasound)
Obstetric ultrasonography, or prenatal ultrasound, is the use of medical ultrasonography in pregnancy, in which sound waves are used to create real-time...
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Journal of Medical Ultrasound. doi:10.3877/cma.j.issn.1672-6448.2013.01.03. "History of the development of ultrasound in China". www.ob-ultrasound.net. Retrieved...
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Sonographer (redirect from Medical sonographer)
physiology, and pathology. A sonologist is a medical doctor who has undergone additional medical ultrasound training to diagnose and treat diseases. Sonologist...
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ultrasound (EUS) or echo-endoscopy is a medical procedure in which endoscopy (insertion of a probe into a hollow organ) is combined with ultrasound to...
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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is the application of ultrasound contrast medium to traditional medical sonography. Ultrasound contrast agents rely...
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Scrotal (or transscrotal) ultrasound is a medical ultrasound examination of the scrotum. It is used in the evaluation of testicular pain, and can help...
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Echogenicity (category Ultrasound)
echogeneity is the ability to bounce an echo, e.g. return the signal in medical ultrasound examinations. In other words, echogenicity is higher when the surface...
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Renal ultrasonography (redirect from Renal ultrasound)
ultrasonography (Renal US) is the examination of one or both kidneys using medical ultrasound. Ultrasonography of the kidneys is essential in the diagnosis and...
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Doppler ultrasonography (redirect from Doppler ultrasound)
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound using gas-filled microbubble contrast media can be used to improve velocity or other flow-related medical measurements.[citation...
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Ultrasound-guided hip joint injection is a joint injection in the hip, assisted by medical ultrasound. Hip and groin pain often presents a diagnostic...
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Therapeutic ultrasound refers generally to the use of ultrasound for the treatment of a medical condition or for therapeutic benefit. Physiotherapeutic...
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form of medical ultrasound tomography utilizing ultrasound waves as physical phenomenon for imaging. It is mostly in use for soft tissue medical imaging...
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acoustics, and phased arrays of acoustic transducers are used in medical ultrasound imaging scanners (phased array ultrasonics), oil and gas prospecting...
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Maria; Gomes, Marco; Santos, Jaime (2021). "A-scan ultrasound in ophthalmology: A simulation tool". Medical Engineering & Physics. 97: 18–24. doi:10.1016/j...
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femoral vein. It drains blood from the leg. It can be assessed using medical ultrasound. It can be affected by popliteal vein entrapment. The popliteal vein...
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Home ultrasound is the provision of therapeutic ultrasound via the use of a portable or home ultrasound machine. This method of medical ultrasound therapy...
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up ultrasound in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kHz. Ultrasound may also refer to: Medical ultrasound...
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Echocardiography (redirect from Cardiac ultrasound)
cardiac ultrasound, is the use of ultrasound to examine the heart. It is a type of medical imaging, using standard ultrasound or Doppler ultrasound. The...
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Functional ultrasound imaging (fUS) is a medical ultrasound imaging technique for detecting or measuring changes in neural activities or metabolism, such...
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Awareness Month Health Literacy Month International Walk to School Month Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month Rett Syndrome Awareness Month World Blindness Awareness...
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Ultrasonic transducer (redirect from Ultrasound transducer)
signals into ultrasound, receivers convert ultrasound into electrical signals, and transceivers can both transmit and receive ultrasound. Ultrasound can be...
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Bionics (redirect from Bionics (medical))
of boats imitating the thick skin of dolphins or sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating animal echolocation. In the field of computer science...
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Perinatal Medicine and director of Ian Donald Inter-University School of Medical Ultrasound. He is a regular fellow of World Academy of Art and Science, European...
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