Reproductive Management Course APPENDIX 1 REPRODUCTIVE ULTRASOUND FOR MANAGEMENT OF BEEF CATTLE
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O. J. Ginther stated: “gray-scale diagnostic ultrasonography is the most profound technological advance in the field of large animal research and clinical reproduction since the introduction of transrectal palpation and radioimmunoassay of circulating hormones.” (Ginther, 1986). It is hard to imagine that many discoveries and procedures related to ovarian, uterine and fetal function that we use today would have been considered without the development of real-time ultrasound. The research and commercial applications of ultrasound developed for reproduction over the last 15 years would support the statement by O. J. Ginther.
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The use of ultrasound in monitoring reproductive physiology of beef cattle.
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