Medical Uses of Ultrasound

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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

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx36f

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