Outpatient Ultrasound

Ultrasound is a diagnostic method that uses high-frequency sound waves to penetrate painlessly into the body and reflect back, creating an image on the ultrasound monitor. There is no radiation involved in this procedure, making it an excellent and patient-safe tool. Ultrasound may also be called diagnostic medical sonography. People that perform the ultrasound exam are referred to as ultrasound technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, or ultrasonographers. The physicians that interpret the images obtained by the sonographers are radiologists.