Sonography

What is a Sonography?

Sonography, sonogram/ an ultrasound is safe and widely used noninvasive diagnostic test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create an image through a transducer. These images show the size, shape, density of internal body structures.

How does it help?

  • It provides valuable information for diagnosing and treating variety of diseases and conditions.
  • Extremely safe in pregnancies to monitor developing baby’s health.
  • High resolution ultrasound can be used for imaging superficial structures, small parts, internal organs and provide extremely fine images.
  • It can also recognize blood or fluid flow and can detect the vascular abnormalities, presence of blood clots or blockages in blood vessels.
  • Useful to guide a needle for Biopsy or FNAC.

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  • Highly sensitive Doppler technology with directional information with HD-Flow and HD live tools.

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Frequently Asked Questions

An ultrasound also known as sonography / ultra-sonography or USG scan uses advanced equipment to send high frequency sound waves into the body and captures the returning waves or data to create images on computer which are interpreted by the Radiologist.

Ultrasound studies can be used to diagnose many diseases and to assess internal organs. It is used to evaluate symptoms such as pain, swelling, infection etc. To check an unborn baby’s health and development during pregnancy. Ultrasound is also used for guide procedures like fine needle aspiration, biopsies etc.

For general scan of abdomen and pelvis you may be asked not to eat for 4 hours before your scan and to drink up to six glasses of water prior to your exam and avoid urinating.

For ultrasound of pregnancy, small parts, peripheral Doppler studies, no preparation is required.

For most ultrasound exams, you will lie face-up on an exam table. Patients may be turned to either side to improve the quality of the images. The radiologist will apply a water-based gel to the area of the body being studied. The transducer is placed on the body over the area of interest and desired images are captured.

Ultrasound is used to view the fetus inside the uterus and to check the fetus’s health and development. It helps to monitor the pregnancy and detect many congenital anomalies.

Benefits

Ultrasound scanning is noninvasive (no needles or injections), safe and does not use radiation.

Ultrasound is the preferred imaging modality for the diagnosis and monitoring of pregnant women and their unborn babies.

Risks

Standard diagnostic ultrasound has no known harmful effects on humans.

Ultrasound waves are disrupted by air or gas and therefore it is not an ideal imaging technique for the air-filled bowel, for imaging of air-filled lungs. Similarly, ultrasound cannot penetrate bone, but may be used for imaging bone fractures or for infection surrounding a bone.

Large patients are more difficult to image by ultrasound because greater amounts of tissue attenuate the sound waves for analysis.

Each modality images differently. Sometimes it is necessary to image with different modalities different ways for the best diagnosis. 

Ultrasound is a very good and safe test. If additional imaging is needed, the Radiologist will recommend it.