Medical ultrasound
Ecografía médica
- Date
- 1958 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Ian Donald, John MacVicar and Tom Brown (Glasgow); Inge Edler and Hellmuth Hertz (echocardiography, Lund, 1953)
- People
- 👤 Carl Hellmuth Hertz1920–1990👤 Ian Donald1910–1987👤 Inge Edler1911–2001👤 John MacVicar1859–1928
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Imaging of the inside of the body using the echo of ultrasound, without radiation, first applied to pregnancy using weld-inspection technology. It is the most widely used imaging technique in the world.
What it led to
- The monitoring of pregnancy and the first image of the foetus
- Prenatal diagnosis and debates over sex selection
- Portable and point-of-care ultrasound
Built on
Made possible
- Echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound)29 de octubre de 1953
- Grey-scale ultrasound imaging (Octoson)1970-1976
- prenatal diagnosis
- pocket ultrasound scanner