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Medical Uses of Ultrasound
This resource, produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), contains a presentation and teachers' notes with worksheets. It illustrates the uses of ultrasound in medicine.
The presentation describes:
* what is ultrasound
* how ultrasound imaging works
* use of ultrasound in monitoring pregnancy
* Doppler shift and measuring blood flow with ultrasound
* ultrasound safety
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