Ultrasound - sonography

Ultrasound is the collective term for sound frequencies that are above those frequencies human beings are able to detect. Ultrasound is also the colloquial term for sonography, an examination using ultrasound frequencies.

During a sonography or so-called ultrasound examination, a contact gel is put on the area to be examined and a probe. This probe is placed onto the skin and sends ultrasound waves being reflected from the borders of different body tissues. Information on these tissues are detected by the ultrasound device and reconstructed. This way, an image for diagnostic purposes is created.

Ultrasound examinations / sonography is not harmful and is even used to examine the unborn live previous to birth.

Depending on ultrasound device and probe, different examinations are possible. At Beta Klinik we perform, for example, the following ultrasound examinations:

• internistic sonography
• sonography of the thyroid gland
• heart sonography (Doppler echochardiography)
• depiction of throat, neck and head vessels (Doppler / Duplex sonography)
• Mamma sonography (examination of the breast)
• joint sonography