12 Facts About Medical ultrasonography

The practice of examining pregnant women using ultrasound is called obstetric Medical ultrasonography, and was an early development of clinical Medical ultrasonography.

Scrotal Medical ultrasonography is used in the evaluation of testicular pain, and can help identify solid masses.

Doppler Medical ultrasonography employs the Doppler effect to assess whether structures are moving towards or away from the probe, and their relative velocity.

Contrast medium for medical ultrasonography is a formulation of encapsulated gaseous microbubbles to increase echogenicity of blood, discovered by Dr Raymond Gramiak in 1968 and named contrast-enhanced ultrasound.

Current future of contrast Medical ultrasonography is in molecular imaging with potential clinical applications expected in cancer screening to detect malignant tumors at their earliest stage of appearance.

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Molecular Medical ultrasonography uses targeted microbubbles originally designed by Dr Alexander Klibanov in 1997; such targeted microbubbles specifically bind or adhere to tumoral microvessels by targeting biomolecular cancer expression .

Interventional Medical ultrasonography involves biopsy, emptying fluids, intrauterine Blood transfusion .

Compression Medical ultrasonography has both high sensitivity and specificity for detecting proximal deep vein thrombosis in symptomatic patients.

Panoramic Medical ultrasonography is the digital stitching of multiple ultrasound images into a broader one.

Multiparametric Medical ultrasonography combines multiple ultrasound techniques to produce a composite result.

Medical ultrasonography adapted their industrial ultrasound equipment to conduct experiments on various morbid anatomical specimens and assess their ultrasonic characteristics.

Medical ultrasonography was used in 1953 at Lund University by cardiologist Inge Edler and Gustav Ludwig Hertz's son Carl Hellmuth Hertz, who was then a graduate student at the university's department of nuclear physics.