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Ultrasound

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Ultrasound Tests Summary
926 words, approx. 3 pages
Ultrasound (or sonogram) technology allows doctors to "see" inside a patient without resorting to surgery. A transmitter sends high-frequency sound waves into the body, where they bounce off the different tissues and organs to produce a distinctive...
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Ultrasonics Summary
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Ultrasonic waves are sound waves too high-pitched for human ears to detect. Their frequencies range from 20,000 hertz to about 10 trillion hertz (the maximum that modern ultrasonic generators are able to produce). Because ultrasonic waves are...
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Ultrasound : Environmental Health Terms
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Sound of a frequency above that which can be detected by the human ear. This is generally taken as above a frequency of around 20,000 Hz (see HERTZ). Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics such as Ultrasound Tissue Characterisation and...
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Ultrasound : Environmental Science and Engineering
9 words, approx. 1 pages
Sound with a frequency above the audible...
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Ultrasound Information
3,559 words, approx. 12 pages
Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Although this limit varies from person to person, it is approximately 25 kilohertz (25,000 hertz) in healthy, young adults and thus, 25kHz serves as a...
 


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Dynamic Chiropractic
Musculoskeletal ultrasound
08/16/2003: 1,631 words, approx. 5 pages
My last article discussed the basics of ultrasound in medical imaging. I thought I should continue the discussion by exploring the application of ultrasound to the musculoskeletal system. I must admit I am not an expert when it comes to ultrasound, but I do...
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Dynamic Chiropractic
Diagnostic ultrasound
07/14/2003: 2,204 words, approx. 7 pages
This article is intended to be a brief discussion of the physics behind the imaging of diagnostic ultrasound. It may seem slightly tedious to discuss ultrasound in this manner, but I think that before we can appreciate this imaging modality, we need to know...
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S.C. senators drop mandatory ultrasound
4/12/2007: 298 words, approx. 1 pages
A state Senate panel on Thursday dropped a measure from an abortion bill that would have made South Carolina the only state to require women to review an ultrasound image of the fetus before terminating a pregnancy.Under the new proposal, a doctor would be required...
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Ultrasound Can Affect Brain Development
8/14/2006: 670 words, approx. 2 pages
Exposure to ultrasound can affect fetal brain development, a new study suggests. But researchers say the findings, in mice, should not discourage pregnant women from having ultrasound scans for medical reasons. When pregnant mice were exposed to ultrasound, a small...
 


 

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