Essentials of Sonography & Patient Care
Exam 2024
_________ describes sound frequencies beyond (ultra-) the range of normal
human hearing (i.e., 20 hertz [Hz] and 20 kilohertz [kHz]). - -Ultrasound
-Ultrasound refers to sound __________ greater than 20 kHz. - -frequency
-Used in applications such as automatic door openers and to
_________________________in metals - -detect flaws
-Common use of ultrasound is __________, which can locate objects under
water as well as determine the distance. - -sonar
-Ultrasound has medical uses in both diagnostic and ______________
applications - -therapeutic
-Ultrasound in ____________ and ______________ therapy to increase blood flow
to help speed up the healing process and to create a warming in the tissues.
- -physical and occupational
-___________: ultrasound is used at high power levels to break up gallstones,
kidney stones, and even heel spurs. - -lithrotripsy
-Most common use of ultrasound in medicine is - -diagnostic ultrasound
-The term ___________ is very broad and includes both medical and
nonmedical uses of sound waves as well as therapeutic and diagnostic
applications in medical applications. - -ultrasound
-__________ is the term used to specify the diagnostic imaging application of
ultrasound - -sonography
-Ultrasonography is a ___________ for sonography - -synonym
-Sonography is the third __________ imaging modality - -oldest
-Jacque and Pierre Curie (1880)
____________ effect: allowed the construction of transducers to generate and
receive sound waves in water - -piezoelectric
-Who invented a sonar type device that used echolocation to detect
submarines - -Paul Langevin (1915)
, -Who Detected gallstones - -Ludwig 1940's
-Explored the use of ultrasound in the heart using a technique that added a
continuous moving display of the returning echoes (M-mode) to ____________
the motion of the heart valves - -Edler and Hertz (1953)//evaluate
-Credited with discovering the first diagnostic applications of ultrasound - -
Ian Donald
-Refined techniques for obstetric procedures - -Ian Donald
-Ian Donald Discovered importance of a full bladder to __________ pelvic
structures - -visualize
-Holmes, Wright, and Meyerdirk (1962) Developed the first compound
contact __________ scanner - -B-mode
-Kossoff developed a new type of scan converter that could process the
returning echoes and display them as different shades of gray, depending on
their intensity, and ___________ ___________ was born - -grayscale imaging
-Who founded Advanced Diagnostic Research (ADR) Corporation - -Wilcox
-By mid-1980s, new and improved real-time ____________ became available
and started to replace the static B-scanners - -equipment
-The ultrasound field continued to grow as new ____________________
__________________continued to develop - -transducer technologies
-Baker—designed several sophisticated, _____________ flowmeters - -
implantable
-Strandess—developed __________ measuring of the peripheral vascular
system; his 1967 publication assigned particular waveforms to specific
disease conditions. - -noninvasive
-Baker, Rushmer, and Franklin—developed a small, hand-held, portable,
continuous-wave Doppler device for - -transcutaneous use
-Baker and __________—developed first pulsed Doppler unit (1970) - -
Watkins
-Baker—developed technique for determining blood flow __________ from
Doppler velocimetry measurements - -volume
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