Ultrasound scanning

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Ultrasound scanning

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Ultrasound scanning equipment
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Ultrasound scanning head
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Ultrasound imaging What does it look like?
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Ultrasound imaging development of a pregnancy
24 weeks
8 weeks gestation (out of a 40 week pregnancy)
18 weeks
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Ultrasound imaging foetus feet
This is a 2D ultrasound scan through the foot of
a foetus. You can see some of the bones of the
foot.
We can process the image in a computer to find
the outline of the foot. This is called surface
rendering. Here, the foot has been surface
rendered
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Ultrasound imaging more surface rendering
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Ultrasound image of foetus used with Chapter 1
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Acknowledgments

• Slides 2 and 3 is from Computer Screens 10S and
  slide 8 is from Software Activity 10S of Chapter
  1 Imaging, Advancing Physics CD-ROM 2008
  Institute of Physics
• Slides 4 to 7 are from the PowerPoint Medical
  uses of ultrasound published by the Institute of
  Physics. The full presentation can be found on
  www.teachingmedicalphysics.org.uk where further
  information about medical physics can be found.
• PowerPoint slides compiled by John Mascall of The
  Kings School, Ely