The usage of ultrasound to produce visual images for medicine is called medical ultrasonography or simply sonography.
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The usage of ultrasound to produce visual images for medicine is called medical ultrasonography or simply sonography.
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The practice of examining pregnant women using Medical ultrasound is called obstetric ultrasonography, and was an early development of clinical ultrasonography.
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Intravascular Medical ultrasound uses a specially designed catheter with a miniaturized Medical ultrasound probe attached to its distal end, which is then threaded inside a blood vessel.
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Endoanal Medical ultrasound is used particularly in the investigation of anorectal symptoms such as fecal incontinence or obstructed defecation.
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Musculoskeletal Medical ultrasound is used to examine tendons, muscles, nerves, ligaments, soft tissue masses, and bone surfaces.
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Strong, short electrical pulses from the Medical ultrasound machine drive the transducer at the desired frequency.
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Images from the Medical ultrasound scanner are transferred and displayed using the DICOM standard.
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An additional expansion of Medical ultrasound is bi-planar Medical ultrasound, in which the probe has two 2D planes perpendicular to each other, providing more efficient localization and detection.
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For example, one study combined B-mode, colour Doppler, real-time elastography, and contrast-enhanced Medical ultrasound, achieving an accuracy similar to that of multiparametric MRI.
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Medical ultrasound adapted their industrial ultrasound equipment to conduct experiments on various morbid anatomical specimens and assess their ultrasonic characteristics.
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Diagnostic Medical ultrasound has since been imported into practically every other area of medicine.
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Medical ultrasound 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.
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