Students focus on anatomy, physiology, pathology, and echocardiographic pattern recognition. Echocardiography 3 CR Continues basic echocardiography. Students concentrate on Doppler echocardiographic techniques and congenital heart disease as relating to the practice of adult echocardiography. 3 CR Presents current theory and scanning techniques for medical sonographers. Students learn Doppler techniques used to diagnose peripheral vascular and cerebral vascular disease.
Competency is required before beginning the clinical practicum.
I 3 CR Covers acoustical physics, including heat energy, light and sound, wave theory, reflection, refraction, resonance, tissue interaction, transducers, bioeffects, and computers in ultrasonics. Topics include Doppler effect, Doppler techniques, acoustic power, fluid dynamics, and quality assurance procedures. Echo-Vascular 3 CR Examines issues relating to the clinical practicum in echocardiology and vascular technology. I 15 CR Provides clinical experience in an ultrasound department under the supervision of a sonographer. CR Provides additional clinical experience in an ultrasound department under the supervision of a sonographer.