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History Of OB/GYN Ultrasound

By dmbradfo
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    OB/GYN

  • The Piezo-electric Effect

    Real breathrough of high frequency echo sounding techniques came when the Piezo-Electric Effect in certain crystals was discovered by Peirre Curie and his brother Jacques Curie. (Paris, France).
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  • Therapuetic vs. Diagnostic

    The use of Ultrasound in the field of medicine started initially for therapuetic application, rather than diagnostic. Its heating and disruptive effects on animal tissues. www.ob-ultrasound.net/history.html

  • Diagnostic?

    Ultrasound was experimentally used as a possible diagnostic tool in medicine. www.ob-ultrasound.net/history.html

  • Transvaginal Scanner

    Transvaginal Scanner
    Wild and Reid invented and described the use of A mode transvaginal and transrectal scanning transducers in 1955 http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history1.html

  • Medical Diagnosis

    Idea that sonar could be used for Medical Diagnosis was first put into practice. http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history1.html

  • Contact Scanner

    Contact Scanner
    Tom Brown and Ian Don Donald constructed a prototype of the worlds first Compound B mode contact scanner in 1957. The prototype progressively improved and became the Diasonograph(1963).
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  • OB/GYN

    Application of Ultrasound in OB/GYN diagnosis started in 1956 with A scan basing on a vaginal approach and later B scans at around 1962 basing on the use of the on point contact sector scanner.
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  • BPD

    Ian Donald, invented the first measurement of the biparietal diameter. (BPD) http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history1.html

  • Fetal Weight

    Estimation of in utero fetal weight based on the BPD and Thoracic circumference ws first reported in 1965 by Thompson Group in Denver, Colorado.

  • Ovarian Follicles

    Ovarian Follicles
    As early as 1972, Kratochwil successfully demonstrated visualization of ovarian follicles with static B-MODE ultrasound. http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history1.html

  • Blighted Ovum

    Blighted Ovum
    Scottish group, expounded the concept of 'blighted ovum' in OB, First described by Ian Donald in 1967. http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history1.html

  • Femur Length

    Femur Length
    Real time scanner soon enabled the accurate measurement of fetal limb bones that lead to the introduction of the important measurement of the fetal femur length by John Hobbins. http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history1.html

  • 3D

    3D
    Kazunori Baba from Tokyo, Japan, first reported a 3-D ultrasound system in 1984 and succeeded in obtaining 3-D fetal images by processing the raw 2-D images on a mini-computer in 1986.
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  • Doppler Ultrasound GYN

    Doppler Ultrasound GYN
    Kenneth Taylor described blood flow in the ovarian and uterine arteries in 1985... Asim Kurjack in Croatia pioneered the use of transvaginal color doppler in the assessment of the pelvic circulation 1989.
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  • 4D Ultrasound Video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNHk3GJwN7o 4D Ultrasound scanner was first introduced in late 2001 by GE Medical systems.