Fundamentals of Ultrasound Practice
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Medical Ultrasound - Correct Answers Imaging technology that uses high frequency sound
waves to produce images of patient anatomy
Ultrasound can be used therapeutically to: - Correct Answers Modify or destroy tissue
Destroy blood clots
Deliver drugs non-invasively
Destroy tumours
Who first considered the low risk surgical technique of ultrasound and when? - Correct Answers
William Fry in the time period of 1947-1949
When was the first ultrasound imaging scanner produced and who by? - Correct Answers In
1950, Douglass Howry and Joseph Holmes produce a 2D compound scanner with images
displayed in black and white.
In what year did George Kossof, William Garret and David Robinson work on an analogue scan
converted to show soft tissue? - Correct Answers 1959
What was produced in 1965? - Correct Answers Vidoson - real time scanners
Throughout the 2000s what ultrasound technologies have advanced? - Correct Answers 3D and
4D ultrasound, contrast enhanced ultrasound, molecular imaging, fusion imaging, and
elastography
List 7 types of Ultrasound Imaging - Correct Answers Musculosketetal Ultrasound
Compact Ultrasound Systems
,Focused Assessment by Sonography
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound
Interventional Ultrasound
Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound
High-intensity Focused Ultrasound
Ultrasound Elastography
What are the 7 patient positions? - Correct Answers Recumbent
Supine
Prone
Lateral decubitus
Semi-erect
Fully erect
What are the three tiers of government? - Correct Answers Federal
State
Local
What two schemes is the Federal Government responsible for? - Correct Answers Medicare and
the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
What is the State Government responsible for? - Correct Answers Management of public
hospitals and the funding of community health schemes, dental clinics, ambulance services, etc.
What is the Local Government responsible for? - Correct Answers Community-based health and
home are services, along with environmental health
, List the 3 tiers in the healthcare system - Correct Answers Primary care: such as GP
Secondary care: such as specialist - surgeon
Tertiary care: public and private hospitals
What is Medicare's aim? - Correct Answers To make healthcare affordable and accessible for
Australians through free subsidised healthcare
List medicare's 3 main objectives. - Correct Answers To fund medical services
To fund pharmaceutical benefits
To fund hospital care
Define plagiarism - Correct Answers Taking credit for and submitting another's work or idea as
your own work without acknowledgement.
What are the 4 types of plagiarism? - Correct Answers Direct: exactly copying another's work
without quotation marks or acknowledging the source
Self: knowingly using your own previous work without acknowledgement
Accidental: unintentionally forgetting to acknowledge the source
Collusion: two or more people working together doing unauthorised group work
Name some consequences of plagiarism - Correct Answers Name is recorded in Academic
Misconduct Database
Makes may be reduced or assessment may be marked as a fail
Academic probation
Suspension or expulsion
What does ECG stand for? - Correct Answers Echocardiogram
with correct answers 100% 2026
Medical Ultrasound - Correct Answers Imaging technology that uses high frequency sound
waves to produce images of patient anatomy
Ultrasound can be used therapeutically to: - Correct Answers Modify or destroy tissue
Destroy blood clots
Deliver drugs non-invasively
Destroy tumours
Who first considered the low risk surgical technique of ultrasound and when? - Correct Answers
William Fry in the time period of 1947-1949
When was the first ultrasound imaging scanner produced and who by? - Correct Answers In
1950, Douglass Howry and Joseph Holmes produce a 2D compound scanner with images
displayed in black and white.
In what year did George Kossof, William Garret and David Robinson work on an analogue scan
converted to show soft tissue? - Correct Answers 1959
What was produced in 1965? - Correct Answers Vidoson - real time scanners
Throughout the 2000s what ultrasound technologies have advanced? - Correct Answers 3D and
4D ultrasound, contrast enhanced ultrasound, molecular imaging, fusion imaging, and
elastography
List 7 types of Ultrasound Imaging - Correct Answers Musculosketetal Ultrasound
Compact Ultrasound Systems
,Focused Assessment by Sonography
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound
Interventional Ultrasound
Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound
High-intensity Focused Ultrasound
Ultrasound Elastography
What are the 7 patient positions? - Correct Answers Recumbent
Supine
Prone
Lateral decubitus
Semi-erect
Fully erect
What are the three tiers of government? - Correct Answers Federal
State
Local
What two schemes is the Federal Government responsible for? - Correct Answers Medicare and
the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
What is the State Government responsible for? - Correct Answers Management of public
hospitals and the funding of community health schemes, dental clinics, ambulance services, etc.
What is the Local Government responsible for? - Correct Answers Community-based health and
home are services, along with environmental health
, List the 3 tiers in the healthcare system - Correct Answers Primary care: such as GP
Secondary care: such as specialist - surgeon
Tertiary care: public and private hospitals
What is Medicare's aim? - Correct Answers To make healthcare affordable and accessible for
Australians through free subsidised healthcare
List medicare's 3 main objectives. - Correct Answers To fund medical services
To fund pharmaceutical benefits
To fund hospital care
Define plagiarism - Correct Answers Taking credit for and submitting another's work or idea as
your own work without acknowledgement.
What are the 4 types of plagiarism? - Correct Answers Direct: exactly copying another's work
without quotation marks or acknowledging the source
Self: knowingly using your own previous work without acknowledgement
Accidental: unintentionally forgetting to acknowledge the source
Collusion: two or more people working together doing unauthorised group work
Name some consequences of plagiarism - Correct Answers Name is recorded in Academic
Misconduct Database
Makes may be reduced or assessment may be marked as a fail
Academic probation
Suspension or expulsion
What does ECG stand for? - Correct Answers Echocardiogram
