LECTURE NOTES IN MEDICAL ENGINEERING

How to See with Sound

A Short Introduction to Ultrasound

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Welcome back to Medical Engineering. So today we want to talk about ultrasound. This is a key imaging technology and it’s very broadly used. It’s also a very safe imaging modality and it can be used to diagnose many many different diseases. We will see that it is also very versatile and we can use it also in acute scenarios because by now the imaging modality has already been transferred into rather small systems and some of them are portable. So looking forward to exploring ultrasound with you guys.