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2. Cardiovascular technologist - Wikipedia

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   Technicians who use ultrasound to examine the heart chambers, valves, and vessels are referred to as cardiac sonographers. [1] They use ultrasound instrumentation to create images called echocardiograms. An echocardiogram may be performed while the patient is either resting or physically active. Technicians may administer medication to ...

3. American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography

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   The American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS), incorporated in June 1975, is an independent nonprofit organization that administers examinations and awards credentials in the areas of diagnostic medical sonography, diagnostic cardiac sonography, vascular technology, physicians’ vascular interpretation, musculoskeletal sonography and midwifery ultrasound.

4. Sonographer - Wikipedia

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   The American Society of Ultrasound Technical Specialists, now the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, was founded in 1970 as the primary professional society for sonographers. [3] The two credentialing bodies in the United States for sonographers are the Cardiovascular Credentialing International established in 1968 and the American ...

5. Diagnostic medical sonography - Wikipedia

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   Diagnostic Medical Sonography Job Outlook & Salary: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), overall employment of diagnostic medical sonographers is expected to increase by 17% between the years of 2016 and 2026. [ 3 ]

6. Interventional radiology - Wikipedia

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   Since its development by Charles Dotter when he did a percutaneous peripheral vascular revascularization procedure for the first time on January 16, 1964, on Laura Shaw, vascular and interventional radiology (commonly interventional radiology or IR) distinguished itself from earlier approaches to vascular disease by the use of medical imaging ...

7. 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.

8. Radiology - Wikipedia

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   Ultrasound is also limited by its inability to image through air pockets (lungs, bowel loops) or bone. Its use in medical imaging has developed mostly within the last 30 years. The first ultrasound images were static and two-dimensional (2D), but with modern ultrasonography, 3D reconstructions can be observed in real time, effectively becoming ...

9. Interventional neuroradiology - Wikipedia

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   Interventional neuroradiology (INR) also known as neurointerventional surgery (NIS), endovascular therapy (EVT), endovascular neurosurgery, and interventional neurology is a medical subspecialty of neurosurgery, neuroradiology, intervention radiology and neurology specializing in minimally invasive image-based technologies and procedures used in diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the head ...