Medical ultrasound facts for kids
Diagnostic ultrasonography is the use of ultrasound to visualize hidden body structures. This medical imaging technique is used to display muscles, tendons, and other internal organs. It makes it easier to assess damage done to these structures. Obstetric sonography is the name for a number of tests done during the pregnancy of a woman. Diagnostic sonography has a wide field of use, including emergency medicine, where it is regularly performed on patients which are in a state of shock or trauma. This test is known as Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma. It can detect any fluid in the body cavities. Doctors can then decide whether life-saving surgery must be performed.
Images for kids
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An ultrasound result on fetal biometry printed on a piece of paper.
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Ultrasound of human heart showing the four chambers and mitral and tricuspid valves.
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Orthogonal planes of a 3 dimensional sonographic volume with transverse and coronal measurements for estimating fetal cranial volume.
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Neck ultrasound.
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Urinary bladder (black butterfly-like shape) and hyperplastic prostate (BPH) visualized by medical sonographic technique
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Medical ultrasound scanner
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Linear array transducer
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Duplex scan of the common carotid artery
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Parametric imaging of vascular signatures (diagram)
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Ultrasound-guided hip joint injection.
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Panoramic ultrasonography of a proximal biceps tendon rupture. Top image shows the contralateral normal side, and lower image shows a retracted muscle, with a hematoma filling out the proximal space.
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Double aorta artifact in sonography due to difference in velocity of sound waves in muscle and fat.
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A normal appendix without and with compression. Absence of compressibility indicates appendicitis.
See also
In Spanish: Ecografía para niños
