Case Study Micro Vex Probe Ultrasound - 1039 Words

Engineering Girl Essay: Micro-Vex Probe Ultrasound One promising new technology related to engineering is ultrasound probes which are used in Veterinarian Medicine also considered as a part of Biomedical Engineering. Taking biomedical engineering is a major required to take in order to learn the basics of this career path in college. Veterinarians use instruments to see what is wrong with their patient or in this case their animal. An example of one instrument veterinarian’s use most often that might need to be advanced, is an ultrasound probe. Which is used to view the inside of an animal and detect where the source of the problem is located. How it works: Ultrasound is a sound wave with a frequency used in diagnostic radiology is in the range of approximately 1 to 10 megahertz; audible sound is about 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz. Ultrasonography has many medical applications in which a machine is used to create these high-frequency sound waves. The machine has a hand-held wand, which is placed directly on the animal’s skin. The sound waves emanate from the face of the transducer, which is a few inches long, relatively thin, and shaped some-what like an electric shaver. The sound waves are transmitted through the animal’s body, so the area that is imaged consists of the skin under the transducer and everything below it. In other words, when you place the transducer on the animal, the image shown on the screen will be a â€Å"slice† of the body below the spot where you place it. The