Sonography

Career Profile: Sonographer
Also Called: Ultrasonographer, Ultrasound Technologist, Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
Job Description: Sonography, also called ultrasonography, is the use of sound waves to generate an image for the assessment and diagnosis of various medical conditions. While this technology has many uses in the medical field, its primary use and most common association is with obstetrics, and the viewing of a fetus in the womb.
Sonographers use special equipment to direct sound waves into areas of a patient's body. Ultrasonographers properly operate the ultrasound equipment, which forms an image that may be videotaped, transmitted, or photographed for diagnosis and/or interpretation by a physician.
Sonographers may specialize in obstetric and gynecologic sonography (the most common, the study of the female reproductive system, and examining a pregnant patient's fetus to track it's growth), abdominal sonography (the liver, kidneys, gall bladder, spleen, and pancreas), neurosonography (the brain) or opthalmologic sonography (the eyes.)
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