enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sonographer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonographer

    A sonographer performing pediatric echocardiography. A sonographer is an allied healthcare professional who specializes in the use of ultrasonic imaging devices to produce diagnostic images, scans, videos or three-dimensional volumes of anatomy and diagnostic data. The requirements for clinical practice vary greatly by country.

  3. Diagnostic medical sonography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_medical_sonography

    Diagnostic medical sonography (DMS), a branch of diagnostic medical imaging, is the use of imaging by medical ultrasound for medical diagnosis. DMS uses non-ionizing ultrasound to produce 2D and 3D images of the body. In Canada, the credentialing for diagnostic medical sonography is the Canadian Association of Registered Ultrasound Professionals.

  4. Medical ultrasound - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound

    Medical ultrasound includes diagnostic techniques (mainly imaging techniques) using ultrasound, as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound. In diagnosis, it is used to create an image of internal body structures such as tendons, muscles, joints, blood vessels, and internal organs, to measure some characteristics (e.g., distances and velocities) or to generate an informative audible sound.

  5. Ultrasound - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound

    The first article on the history of ultrasound was written in 1948. [3] According to its author, during the First World War, a Russian engineer named Chilowski submitted an idea for submarine detection to the French Government. The latter invited Paul Langevin, then Director of the School of Physics and Chemistry in Paris, to evaluate it.

  6. Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Diagnostic...

    The Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) is a nonprofit professional association, representing over 24,000 sonographers and sonography student members across all fifty U.S. states and forty-eight countries, as of 2022. [1]

  7. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the...

    The timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet Earth. Dates in this article are consensus estimates based on scientific evidence , mainly fossils .

  8. Sonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonology

    Sonology is a neologism used to describe the study of sound in a variety of disciplines.. In medicine, the term is used in the field of [imaging] to describe the practice of medical ultrasonography. [1]

  9. Echocardiography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echocardiography

    In 2009, New Mexico and Oregon became the first two states to require licensure of sonographers. [citation needed] The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is a professional organization made up of physicians, sonographers, nurses, and scientists involved in the field of echocardiography. One of the most important roles that the ASE plays ...