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Highlights: This curriculum uses videos, text, and assessment questions to explore how sound waves can be used in noninvasive diagnostic imaging.
Abstract: Ultrasound is a non-invasive form of imaging that provides topographical and temporal information of internal organs and blood flow in real-time, e.g. prenatal ultrasound. This curriculum provides context for the following concepts: sound waves, the speed of sound, decibels, diffraction, absorption, doppler shift, penetration of sound in tissue, acoustic impedance, shadowing, and 3D imaging. The curriculum includes a manuscript with key concepts, video series from a medical professional, video comprehension questions, and pre-lecture checkpoints and homework problems.
Resource Types: Video, Pre-class assignment, Homework, Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access
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Physics Topics: 

Oscillations & Waves > Acoustics > Architectural Acoustics, Intensity and Attenuation, Pitch, Wave Analysis and Synthesis

Oscillations & Waves > Wave Motion > Doppler Effect, Impedance and Dispersion, Longitudinal Pulses and Waves, Reflection and Refraction (Sound), Reflection, Refraction, Transmission, Transfer of Energy in Waves, Transverse Pulses and Waves, Wave Properties of Sound

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Cross-cutting Biological Concepts

Medical Applications > Biomedical Imaging > Ultrasound & Doppler

Math Topics: 
Algebra; Exponentials and Logarithms; Geometry; Trigonometry

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Copyright:   2021 Portland State University

License:   CC: BY-NC-SA - Attribution, No Commercial uses and Share Alike. Derivative works must have the same license

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