Ultrasound technology uses sound waves produced and detected by a tool called a transducer. An echo is produced when body tissues reflect the sound waves emitted by the transducer. The transducer ...

Details to help new and experienced clinicians perform ultrasound-guided vascular cannulation have been added to updated guidelines from the American Society of Echocardiography. “Ultrasound ...

Ultrasound operates like radar, with a probe beam sent to the object and an echo recorded. In the simplest case, the reflected signal is at the same frequency as the probe, and the return signal gives ...

The probe transmits a lower-amplitude vibration ... shear wave that propagates throughout the liver tissue. The pulse-echo ultrasound allows measurement of wave velocity (in meters per second ...

Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 103, No. 4 (2020), pp. 1-24 (24 pages) Traditional hand-held ultrasound probe has some limitations in prostate biopsy. Improving the localization and accuracy of ...