A Brief Talk About the Development of Whole-Body Ultrasound Technology and Its Significance

Ultrasound is high-frequency soundwaves used for examinations, which show a picture or image of the inner structures of the body on a screen.

A radiologist uses an ultrasound scanner that utilizes a smooth handheld device known as a transducer. It is moved across the body in sliding and rotating action, which transmits the ultrasound waves into the body. These sound waves produce a moving image by converting the sound waves reflected from different tissues, organ structures, or body parts into electrical impulses.

As compared to other diagnostic methods, ultrasound offers numerous advantages. Some of them include:

Noninvasive.

It does not use any ionizing radiation. Therefore, it is safe.

It ensures images with great details and gives a clear picture of soft tissues that do not demonstrate clearly on x-ray images.

It preferred imaging modality to diagnose and monitor pregnant women and their unborn babies.

It provides real-time imaging; thus, it is good for guiding minimally invasive procedures, such as needle biopsies and needle aspiration.

The development of ultrasound included the advancing Doppler paradigm (1966) to enable scanning layers of the heart via blood flow. Doppler ultrasound is a widely used method to diagnose any condition in modern medical science. It can estimate the blood flow through vessels compared to the traditional ultrasound method, which cannot show blood flow. This requires us to understand what a Doppler ultrasound is and why Viatom provides a handheld ultrasound scanner with this technology.