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Waves and sound have many applications in medicine and health sciences. Ultrasound uses sound waves to create images of internal organs and tissues, such as viewing a fetus during pregnancy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) also uses wave properties like resonance to detect tumors. High intensity focused ultrasound can be used to target and treat affected tissues by combining ultrasound waves with temperature measurement. Sound waves are also used in tools like surgical aspirators to carefully remove tiny fragments of diseased tissue. Overall, waves continue to have growing uses in medical diagnostics, treatment, and research.

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Physics Journal 2

Waves and sound have many applications in medicine and health sciences. Ultrasound uses sound waves to create images of internal organs and tissues, such as viewing a fetus during pregnancy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) also uses wave properties like resonance to detect tumors. High intensity focused ultrasound can be used to target and treat affected tissues by combining ultrasound waves with temperature measurement. Sound waves are also used in tools like surgical aspirators to carefully remove tiny fragments of diseased tissue. Overall, waves continue to have growing uses in medical diagnostics, treatment, and research.

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PHYSICS JOURNAL 2

Item 2: Describe how Waves & Sound can be applied to your course or to Medical and Health sciences.

Answer:
From the stethoscopes doctors have been using to hearing the internal acoustics
and vibrations of the human body since the 19th century to the obstetric ultrasound
images so recognizable to future parents, sound has a lengthy history in medicine.
Pictures of the liver, veins, heart, and other body parts are created by sound waves being
transmitted into the body and reflecting back. The heart's beating and the blood flow
surrounding it can both be measured. There are features that can not be examined as
precisely with other techniques like MRI or CT scans.

A wave is the most fundamental type of motion seen in X-ray imaging. Regardless
if they are electromagnetic waves or mechanical waves, all waves exhibit some
fundamental characteristics and behaviors. The medical field can benefit from wave
phenomena like refraction, reflection, and diffraction. According to classical physics,
electromagnetic radiation is made up of oscillating waves that move through space as
deformations caused by the electromagnetic field. According to quantum physics,
photons, the quanta of light, are the building blocks of electromagnetic radiation. Since
X-rays are merely different types of light with varying wavelengths or frequencies,
electromagnetic radiation is essentially different types of light. A white image is produced
when X-Rays strike bones or organs like your kidneys, however, since the waves are
blocked.

Resonance is a wave characteristic that MRI scans utilize to detect tumors.


Resonance is a type of oscillation that exhibits its greatest vibrating intensity at a specific
frequency. Magnetic resonance imaging is referred to as MRI. It is a radio wave
transmission technology. In addition to assessing potentially harmful atherosclerotic
plaques and monitoring chronic liver disease, sound waves can also assist in the delivery
of medications to specific parts of the body. This method, known as MR-guided focused
ultrasound (MRgFUS), targets and treats affected tissue by combining high intensity
ultrasound waves with MR thermometry or the measurement of temperature. In order to
help persons with speech abnormalities and hearing issues communicate better,
acoustics is also combining with other fields like psychology and neuroscience.

Ultrasounds are applied to create images utilizing safe sound waves


in medical settings. The B-mode of ultrasound is used to examine several aspects of
pregnancy, such as the development of the fetus. Multiple acoustic transducers are used
in ultrasonography, also known as sonography, to transmit sound pulses into a
substance. Calculations are made to determine the depth of the tissue interface
responsible for the echo by measuring how long it takes for the echo to return to the
probe. Brain tumors are removed by neurosurgeons using a tool called a cavitron
ultrasonic surgical aspirator (CUSA), which was long regarded to be highly challenging to
use. The surgeon can carefully remove tiny fragments of cancerous tissue with the use
of the probe's small tip without injuring or harming the healthy tissue around it.

Ultrasound was first employed for clinical imaging in 1942, while ultrasound has
been utilized for driving chemical reactions since the 1980s despite sound waves being
a component of research and medicine for decades. There are numerous additional uses
for waves in daily life, including body diagnostics and preservation. Waves assist work,
entertainment, and healthcare in a wide range of real-world applications. When utilized
for imaging, some electromagnetic waves can help surgeons see what's happening inside
a patient's body without having to do surgery. In the present, sound in medicine is being
used in a great number of increasingly sophisticated ways.

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