Shake No Bake: A Homemade Ultrasound Gel Recipe for Low-Resource Settings
| Autor: | David P. Keating, Anjuli R. Cherukuri, Dave Guy, Karina Perusse, Kristen K. DeStigter, Lucy Lane |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Low resource
Shake Galactans Imaging phantom 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Mannans 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Ultrasound coupling gel Image Interpretation Computer-Assisted Plant Gums Medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Developing Countries Poverty Ultrasonography 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine Guar gum Radiological and Ultrasound Technology business.industry Phantoms Imaging Viscosity Recipe Ultrasound Costs and Cost Analysis business Gels Biomedical engineering |
| Zdroj: | Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. 38(4) |
| ISSN: | 1550-9613 |
| Popis: | Commercially produced ultrasound coupling gel is often a scarce resource in rural regions of low-income countries that use sonography as their main imaging modality and, when available, may be cost prohibitive. Various homemade gels were created and tested to assure image quality was not compromised. Glucomannan-based gel and guar gum-based gel had superior physical properties in initial testing and showed no substantial difference compared with commercially available ultrasound gel on subject and phantom imaging and analysis (P > .05 using a 1-tailed sign test). Neither gel required heating, attracted insects, damaged ultrasound transducers, stained samples of clothing, or had harmful effects to subjects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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