DMS Vascular 1

Catalog description

This course introduces the Diagnostic Medical Sonography student to the principles of vascular sonographic imaging. Topics include vascular physics, terminology, hemodynamics, and cerebrovascular applications of ultrasound, and normal, abnormal and pathologic sonographic presentation of vascular anatomy. The laboratory portion of this course permits the student to simulate ultrasound examinations of anatomical structures for the purposes of identification of structures and pathology, and to reinforce scanning technique in preparation for performing these examinations in the clinical setting.