Module Content

• Generation of Ultrasound
  
• Ultrasound Wave Characteristics
  
• Image Resolution
  
• Ultrasound system components
  
• Transducers
  
• Ultrasound Beam Profiles
  
• How Sound Interacts with Matter
  
• Image display and storage
  
• Pre and Post Processing
  
• Recording Media
  
• Equipment Quality Control
  
• Use of Tissue Equivalent Phantoms
  
• Safety and Bioeffects
  
• Doppler Ultrasound
  
• Cleaning & Disinfecting Equipment
  

• System setup
  
• Image Production
  
• Transducer Selection
  
• Grayscale
  
• Doppler
  
• Patient care, communication & education
  
• Patient positioning
  
• Scan Planes
  
• Scanning Technique
  
• Image Annotation
  
• Image Artifacts
  
• Mammographic Correlation
  

• Gross Anatomy of the Breast
  
• Embryology
  
• Vascular Anatomy
  
• Lymphatic System of the Breast
  
• Fibrous Planes
  
• TDLU and the Lactiferous Ducts
  
• Lymph Nodes
  
• Pregnancy Induced Changes to the Breast
  
• Involutional Changes to the Breast
  

• Benign versus Malignant Features
  
• Compressibility
  
• Vascularity
  
• Effects of Masses on the Ducts
  
• Lymphatic Involvement
  
• Specific Benign Lesions
  
• Specific Malignant Lesions
  
• Congenital Breast Abnormalities
  
• Gynecomastia
  
• Post-Surgical Changes
  

• Localizations
  
• Core Biopsy
  
• FNA
  
• Abscess Drainage
  
• Mammotomy
  
• ABBI
  
• Imaging Breast Implants
  
• MRI Appearances
  
• Ductography
  
• Breast Specimen Imaging