What Is Obstetric Ultrasound?

Ultrasounds continue into Obstetric and Transvaginal. Obstetric is the use of ultrasound scans in pregnancy (Woo, Dr. Joseph S.K). Transvaginal are used to capture more precise images in patients who are obese and/ or in the early stages of pregnancy and is conduction through the vaginal cavity (Woo, Dr. Joseph S.K).

Diagnostic medical sonography is a profession where sonographers direct high-frequency sound waves into a patient’s body through the use of specific equipment to diagnose or monitor a patient’s medical condition. As described by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this examination is referred to as an ultrasound, sonogram, or echocardiogram. The high-frequency sound waves emitted from the handheld device, called a transducer, bounce back creating an echo and therefore produce an image that can be viewed on the sonographers computer screen. This image provides the sonographer and physician with an internal image of the patient’s body that will be used in the diagnosis. The most familiar use of ultrasound is used in monitoring pregnancies

Medical ultrasound (also known as diagnostic sonography or ultrasonography) is an diagnostic imaging technique based on the application of ultrasound. It is used to see internal body structures such as tendons, muscles, joints, vessels and internal organs. The aim of often to find a source of a disease or to exclude any pathology. The practice of examining pregnant women using ultrasound is called obstetric ultrasound, and is widely used.

For many decades now, sound advances in the ultrasound technology have become a successful innovation towards access to 3D images of a fetus as it continues developing in the womb. This innovation has helped pediatricians to gain clinical insights on the growing fetus and parental development of the mother. These images also serve the doctors with information that is used in determining the condition of the fetus all though its growth until it is ready to be born. However it some people think that this innovation as much as it is beneficial to the parents it does not apply to all of them since it comes with expenses and extra costs. They give a precise description of the fetus and all its congenital anomalies. Doctors can be able to know if

Ultrasound screening uses sound waves to create an image of the fetus in the uterus. The test will determined the size and the position of the fetus as well as any abnormalities with the bones or organs of the unborn fetus. 2 There are many types of ultrasounds and at different levels they will reveal more in depth issues or abnormalities. The first type being nuchal translucency ultrasound; this type of ultrasound is done at 11 weeks 2 day to 14 weeks and 2 days. This ultrasound measures fluid at the back of the babies’ neck allowing detection of Down syndrome and major heart defects. The second type of ultrasound available is fetal anatomy survey or a level 1 ultrasound. This ultrasound will show how far along the pregnancy is. This is done between 17 to 20 weeks and allowing a head to toe scan to detect birth defects. If the level 1 scan is deemed to be abnormal a level 2 ultrasound will be preformed to detect harder to find defects.

Pregnancy is a beautiful time in a woman’s life. A mother waits nine long months to meet their bundle of joy they created with their partner. A mother can feel their belly grow, the baby move, and can even feel tiny sensations like hiccups. What a mother can’t do is actually see their little bundle of joy without having an ultrasound preformed. This paper will go over a brief history of obstetric ultrasound along with a slight explanation of why they are performed and include the benefits along with the possible risks of the procedure.

Charrice is a 30yo, G5 P3013, who is currently 33 weeks 4 days. She is followed through our office for a previa. At her last scan at 27 weeks it was about 9 mm from the internal os. There is also an EIF noted on her anatomic survey but she had low-risk noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT). She is here today to evaluate the placenta location.

The inception of baby scan technology has made possible for the doctors to examine the gradual development of the unborn baby. Different types of tests are performed during the gestation period. Sexing, confirmation, 3-D, and 4-D are few of them. These scans are non-invasive, safe, painless, and do not involve the use of surgical instruments.

Ultrasound is a therapeutic modality that uses vibrations which are produced mechanically at a higher frequency than sound waves. These waves are referred to as ultrasonic as they are unable to be heard by humans (Robertson et al, 2006). The success of the use of ultrasound has been recorded as early as the 1930’s, when in Berlin, sciatica in patients had been shown to have improved greatly. This evidently resulted in further research and new treatment methods being created (Stanley, 1958). Since then a lot of research has been carried out and advances in the use of ultrasound has been made and are continuing to be made all the time. The effects of ultrasound in rehabilitation will be researched and examined to understand its effectiveness.

Ultrasound technology is used widespread within the medical industry, being used to treat a range of illnesses and disease for the past decade. However, FUS technology is in the early stages of testing and research when it comes to treating neurodegenerative disorders such as AD. It is a non-invasive, cost effective alterative to many other medicinal treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Preliminary research into using FUS technology has produced promising results, this technology has the ability to penetrate deep into the brain without harming healthy tissue as well as the ability to target specific tissue in a controlled way without exposure to radiation and high ionising powers. Another benefit to this

Pregnancy is the most exciting and fulfilling life's adventure. The goal of each pregnancy is a healthy mother and baby. Most of the time it requires lots of efforts by the parents, nurses, physicians and family members. Ultrasound is one of the essential procedures that shows the health of the baby and produces stunning two, three and four-dimensional images. While mothers are waiting for the babies they can enjoy looking at those pictures of the unborn baby. The medical office, the NYC First Look Baby offers an excellent opportunity to be able to view how the baby looks like before he or she is born with an ultrasound 2D, 3D and 4D pictures. With the two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound scanning mothers can see gray scale image of the detailed

For nearly half a century ultrasound has been used in the clinical setting for medical diagnosis. It is the most common imaging modality of obstetrics and gynecology and to this day, there has been no evidence showing harmful effects of ultrasound at the clinical exposure levels. There has been research into the possible biological effects of ultrasound and while ultrasound is still generally seen as a safer form of diagnostic imaging, it is still important to understand what those biological effects are. Understanding the bioeffects of ultrasound will allow the user to know under what conditions ultrasound remains bioeffect free, and what the sonographer can do to keep ultrasound safe for the patient. This paper will go over the bioeffects

Before routine antenatal ultrasound examinations became widely accepted, the most common presentation was as a large sacral mass that is immediately obvious at birth[3]. However, with the advent of routine antenatal ultrasound, the most common presentation is now antenatal diagnosis by ultrasonography[4].

3D ultrasound also called sonograph, is often used in obstetrics during pregnancy, ultrasound uses high frequency sound waves to confirm and the date of a pregnancy and to provide images of the fetus, the placenta and the amniotic fluid (Griffin,2014). A high frequency transducer is used to record the sound waves to determine the size and shape of soft tissue (Ratini,2015). It is also used to create real time visual images of the embryo or fetus in the mother’s womb (Griffin,2014).

Ultrasound is nothing but sound of frequencies above $20000\thinspace Hz$. This is beyond the range of human hearing. Frequencies of $130\thinspace MHz$ are typical for diagnostic ultrasound. Diagnostic ultrasound technique is non invasively building up high resolution images of the internal body part from the reflected ultrasound signals captured in real time. The most commonly known application of this is in obstetric to produce images of the embryo or fetus within a pregnant woman. However, ultrasound technique is not just limited to imaging but these days analysis of the real time ultrasound signal without any image formation is gaining a lot of popularity due to lesser time consumption for analysis. The resolution attainable is higher