Diagnostic Medical Sonography Health Article

KEY TERMS

Color Doppler—An ultrasound technique used to locate areas of motion, such as blood flow in vessels.

Doppler—Technique for calculating the relative velocity between two points by measuring the shift in frequency of a sound wave transmitted from one point to another.

Transducer—Often called probes, transducers come in different shapes and sizes for use in different ultrasonic scanning situations.

Ultrasonic—A sound beyond the range of human hearing.

Ultrasound—The diagnostic or therapeutic use of ultrasound and esp. a noninvasive technique involving the formation of a two-dimensional image used for the examination and measurement of internal body structures and the detection of bodily abnormalities.

BOOKS

Fleischer, Arthur C. and Kepple, Donna M. Diagnostic Sonography. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders, 1995.

Hagen-Ansert, Sandra L. Textbook of Diagnostic Ultrasonography Volume Two. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 1995.

Rowland, Jeanne. Introduction to Radiologic Technology. St. Louis, MO: Mosby-Year Book, Inc. 1996.

Zwiebel, William J. and Sohaey, Roya. Introduction to Ultrasound. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders, 1998.

OTHER

"Diagnostic Medical Sonography (Ultrasound)." Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Allied Health Sciences Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program 1998. <http://www.rit.edu/~hhgscl/>.

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