Ultrasound

Ultra­sound is a safe and pain­less imag­ing tech­nique that uses high-fre­quen­cy sound waves to cre­ate pic­tures of inter­nal organs and tis­sues. It’s wide­ly used for var­i­ous rea­sons, includ­ing mon­i­tor­ing fetal devel­op­ment, exam­in­ing organs like the gall­blad­der, liv­er, and kid­neys, and help­ing to diag­nose a range of med­ical conditions.

Also known as sonog­ra­phy, this test pro­duces images by record­ing the echoes of sound waves as they bounce off body tis­sues. Ultra­sound can be used alone or in com­bi­na­tion with oth­er diag­nos­tic pro­ce­dures, and it’s even help­ful for guid­ing doc­tors dur­ing biopsies.