Concept information
Preferred term
Ultrasonography
Type
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Definition
- The visualization of deep structures of the body by recording the reflections or echoes of ultrasonic pulses directed into the tissues. Use of ultrasound for imaging or diagnostic purposes employs frequencies ranging from 1.6 to 10 megahertz.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonym(s)
- Diagnostic Ultrasound
- Echography
- Echotomography
- Sonography, Medical
- Ultrasonic Imaging
- Ultrasonographic Imaging
- Ultrasound Imaging
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- drug effects (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- ethics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- methods (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Échotomographie
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Ultrasonographie
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-R16GVT8W-P
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