Contradictory Images A Cultural Anthropologist Views Obstetrical Ultrasound

Clinical Policy Title: Prenatal Obstetrical Ultrasound

ABOUT THIS POLICY: Select Health of South Carolina has developed clinical policies to assist with making coverage determinations. Select Health of South Carolina’s clinical policies are based on guidelines from established industry sources, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state regulatory agencies, the American Medical Association (AMA), medical specialty professiona...

Temperature Mapping Using Ultrasound Digital Images

Introduction:  The  success  of  hyperthermia  depends  on  the  accuracy  of  the  temperature  monitoring in the tumor and the surrounding normal tissue. In this study, the temperature changes  were determined by computing the speckle displacement in the ultrasound digital images. Speckle  tracking algorithm was used to compute the displacement.  Materials and Methods: The experiment was perf...

Parallel Beamformation Method to Enhance Ultrasound Images

Contrast resolution and detail resolution are two important parameters in ultrasound imaging. This paper presents a new method to enhance these parameters, simultaneously. A parallel auxiliary beamformer has been employed whose weightings are such that an estimation of the leaked signal through the main beamformer is obtained. Then the output of main beamformer is modified according to the ...

Cultural bias and 'no-scalpel vasectomies': lessons learned by a Brown anthropologist in Mexico.

Circumference measurements in obstetrical ultrasound: ellipse vs. arithmetic mean.

Quantitation of fetal parameters by prenatal sonography enables the assessment of menstrual age and fetal development. Appropriate fetal growth can be surmised on the basis of sequential measurements, as well as the relative variation of parameters such as biparietal diameter (BPD), femur diaphysis length (FDL), abdominal circumference (AC 1, and head circumference (HC). Accurate determination ...