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Physiologist Lazzaro Spallanzani was the first to study echolocation among bats, which form the basis for ultrasound physics. -
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Brothers Pierre and Jacques Curries discover piezoelectricity. Ultrasound transducers (probes) emit and receive sound waves by of the piezoelectric effect. -
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Sonography was used to treat members of European soccer teams as a form of physical therophy, to appease arthritic pain and eczema and to sterilize vaccines states Joan Barker who holds several ARDMS ultrasound certifications. -
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Neurologist Karl Dussik is credited with being the first to use sonography for medical diagnoses. He transmitted an ultrasound beam through the human skull in attempts of detecting brain tumors. -
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George D. Ludwig, M.D., an internist at the Naval Medical Research Institute, developed a made ultrasound equipment to detect gallstones. -
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Douglas Howry and Joseph Holmes, from the University of Colorado were some of the leading pioneers of B-mode ultrasound equipment, including the 2D B-mode linear compound scanner. -
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Physician, Inge Elder and Engineer C. Hellmuth Hertz performed the first successful echocardiogram by employing an echo test. -
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Dr. Ian Donald incorporated ultrasound into the OB/GYN field of medicine. -
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Don Barker, Dennis Watkins, and John Reid designed pulsed Doppler ultrasound technology; their developments led to imaging blood flow in various layers of the heat. -
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The 1970's saw many developments including the continuous wave Doppler, spectral wave Doppler and the color Doppler ultrasound instruments. -
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Kazunori Baba of the University of Tokyo developed 3D ultrasound technology and captured three-dimensional images of a fetus in 1980 -
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Professor Daniel Lichtenstein began incorporating lung and general sonography in intensive care units. -
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Ultrasound guided biopsies (endoscopic ultrasounds) also began in the 1995's -
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Just like personal communication devices are continuously evolving and becoming more convenient, so are ultrasound technologies. -
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A variety of compact, handheld devices have come onto the market in recent years. The Iphone now has a telesonography app and NASA has developed a virtual guidance program for non-sonography to perform ultrasound in space. -
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Over the years, SDMS membership was grown exponentially, reaching more than 20,000 in August 2007. -
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Pioneer has announced a new printing service that can produce holographic photos from a computer-generated 3D model instead of photographing an actual object.