The recording of information in real-time ultrasonic scanning
Robert C. Chivers, T. J. Bloomberg, J. C. F. Peaket, R. K. Williamson · British Journal of Radiology · 1980
The rapidly increasing use of real-time ultrasonic scanners in routine clinical investigations raises important questions concerning the records that may be most appropriately kept of the diagnostic investigations performed. We have given some thought to the most suitable system for recording the diagnostic information obtained. Clinical results from singleelement transducer compound B-scanners can be recorded photographically, either on “Polaroid” or X-ray type film, and there has been much discussion regarding the most appropriate technology (Nieman et al., 1976; Goldstein, 1976; Hall and Railton, 1975). An essential difference between real-time and compound scanning is that the latter only produces good results with repetitive scanning. Thus the photographic records produced are selections of the information received by the clinician from a number of scans and represent those which he believes are of the most clinical value. The development of realtime scanners offers similar diagnostic possibilities with a considerable economy in the time of examination.