History Of Ultrasound Flashcards
Frequency of Infrasound
Below 20 hertz
Below audible sound range
Frequency of Audible sound
20-20 000 hertz
We can hear
Frequency of Ultrasound
Above 20 000 hertz
Frequency of Diagnostic Medical uses
1-30 Megahertz
1 Mega = 1 Million
Frequency of Therapeutic uses
1-3 Megahertz
1 Mega = 1Million
Which is more Intense:
Diagnostic Medical uses (1-30 Megahertz)
Therapeutic uses (1-3 Megahertz)
Therapeutic is more intense
What year did an Italian priest/scientist find that a blinded bag could function, but a deaf one could not?
1793
What and When did the Currie Brothers discover?
In 1880 they discovered the piezoelectric effect
What is the piezoelectric effect
Apply pressure waves to quartz crystal caused electrical pulses (voltage)
What is the reverse piezoelectric effect?
Apply voltage (electrical pulses) to a quartz crystal and it produces pressure waves.
What are a couple ways in which ultrasound can be used besides medical uses?
The military
- 1906 used sonar to detect icebergs
- 1916 used to detect submarines
Metal flaw detectors
-1928 these were used to check integrity of metal for ships/aircrafts
Who was Karl Dussik?
- A neurologist/psychiatrist who used ultrasound for medical purposes (1942) in Vienna
- A-mode scanning to see brain tumor
Who was George Ludwig
Used A-mode scanning to diagnose gallstones.
Who was Hertz and Edler
- 1954 they used A-mode to show heart motion
- lead to development of M-mode ultrasound
Who was Ian Donald?
- “Father of Obstetrical ultrasound”
- used ultrasound to identify gestational sac
- developed biparietal diameter measurement (BPD)