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  2. Medical ultrasound - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Ultrasound - Wikipedia

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    Ultrasound has been used by radiologists and sonographers to image the human body for at least 50 years and has become a widely used diagnostic tool. [36] The technology is relatively inexpensive and portable, especially when compared with other techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT).

  4. Medical imaging - Wikipedia

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    Ultrasound is also used as a popular research tool for capturing raw data, that can be made available through an ultrasound research interface, for the purpose of tissue characterization and implementation of new image processing techniques. The concepts of ultrasound differ from other medical imaging modalities in the fact that it is operated ...

  5. Instruments used in radiology - Wikipedia

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    uses ultrasound to produce images from within the body; video link: X-ray: uses X-rays to produce images of structures within the body; video link: Contrast media for X-rays: to provide a high contrast image of the details of the viscera under study; e.g. salts of heavy metals, gas like air, radio-opaque dyes, organic iodides, etc ...

  6. Radiology - Wikipedia

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    Medical ultrasonography uses ultrasound (high-frequency sound waves) to visualize soft tissue structures in the body in real time. No ionizing radiation is involved, but the quality of the images obtained using ultrasound is highly dependent on the skill of the person (ultrasonographer) performing the exam and the patient's body size.

  7. Acoustic angiography - Wikipedia

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    Microbubbles work as contrast agents in ultrasound for two main reasons: The large difference in acoustic impedance between body tissues and the microbubbles and their quality of having a resonant frequency generally under 10 MHz. Due to the larger mismatch in acoustic impedances, the microbubbles are near-perfect reflectors of ultrasound waves ...

  8. Your Gout Guide: From Symptoms to Treatment - AOL

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    When there’s too much uric acid in the body, it can form sharp, needle-like crystals in and around your joints. ... Imaging tests like an X-rays, ultrasound, or CT scan to visualize uric acid ...

  9. Contrast agent - Wikipedia

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    A contrast agent (or contrast medium) is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging. [1] Contrast agents absorb or alter external electromagnetism or ultrasound, which is different from radiopharmaceuticals, which emit radiation themselves.