Physics A-Level
Medical imaging
What Medical imaging means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Medical imaging
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Reference: OCR
The use of display modes such as A-scan and B-scan, for example in measuring the length of the eye or foetal scanning.
Topics that use Medical imaging
- Using ultrasound (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- A-scan
- Acoustic impedance
- Acoustic impedance mismatch
- Acoustic matching
- Angle dependence of Doppler shift
- B-scan
- Coupling gel
- Coupling gel in ultrasound scanning
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