Recent technological developments

Diagnostic ultrasound is constantly evolving and developing new applications and techniques.  While some of these new developments are less likely to be tested on a registry examination, this section of the site is designed to provide you with an overview of these recent advances.

• Elastography

• Extended field of view

• B-flow

• 2D arrays

• 3D/4D ultrasound

• Automated Breast Ultrasound

• Cable-less (wireless) transducers

• Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

• Canon's SMI

• Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (CMUT)

• Fusion Imaging

• Artificial Intelligence