used to restore vision in patients whose vision has become cloudy from cataracts
Hint: Rhymes with Waco + emulsification
What is Phacoemulsification?
100
type of medical technology used to investigate bone density with the use of sound waves at high frequencies
Hint: QUS
What is Quantitative Ultrasound (QUS) Bone Densitometry?
100
The medical term for "kidney stone"
What is calculi?
100
useful in medical diagnoses as elasticity can
discern healthy from unhealthy tissue for specific organs/growths
Hint: the stretchy stuff that holds up your pants + graph
What is elastography?
100
These are neoplasms and noncancerous growths of the uterus
What is fibroids?
200
These appointments are every six months and result in the removal calculus with shockwaves that disrupt bacterial cells, disrupt plaque biofilms, and bacterial byproducts
Hint: Performed by dental hygienist
What is having your teeth cleaned?
200
deliver drugs through the skin
What is transdermal drug delivery?
200
Application of ultrasound to the skin that increases its
permeability and enables the delivery of various substances
into and through the skin
What is sonophoresis?
200
Low frequency ultrasound treatment for localized fat reduction
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What is Ultra-Cavitation?
200
measured because its bone is similar to that found in the
hip, were fractures occur most often
What is the heel?
300
It is estimated that in the United States alone more than a
million patients are treated every year with this procedure for the removal of "traveling stones"
What is an lithotripsy?
300
therapy that destroys tissue with rapid heat elevation-which essentially "cooks" the tissue
Hint: Kind of like a magnifying glass over an ant hill
What is Intensity Focused Ultrasound, or HIFU?
300
Diagnostic screening performed mostly on women over the age of 40. Requires a lot of squishing
Hint: Telegram from your mama
What is mammogram?
300
Vibration created by sound waves is called this
What is cavitation?
300
This device came into use beginning in the late 1950s when it was apparent that ultrasound could effectively remove deposits from teeth
What is a power scaler?
400
symptoms arise when the stones begin to move down the ureter causing intense pain
Hint: Medical term referring to kidney
What is nephrolithiasis?
400
Involves the breaking down or “melting” of blood clots that can form in the leg arteries or veins
What is Ultrasound-Accelerated Thrombolysis
400
examples of this process: homogenation, cutting, extraction, inactivation of microorganisms, inactivation/activation of enzymes, drying enhancement and surface cleaning
What is bioprocessing?
400
Ultrasound or this type of image is used to find the exact location of kidney stones
What is fluoroscopic X-ray?
400
device with a titanium or steel needle that vibrates at ultrasonic frequency to sculpt and emulsify the cataract while the pump aspirates particles through the tip
What is a phaco probe?
500
condition in which bones are weakened when the spaces inside them enlarge, making fractures more likely
What is Osteoporosis ?
500
ESWL
What is extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy?
500
Modality that captures images in real time
What is ultrasound?
500
Tammy's presentation was focused on this
What is non imaging uses of Ultrasound?
500
being tested for use in aiding tissue plasminogen activator treatment in stroke sufferers in the procedure called ultrasound-enhanced systemic thrombolysis