What’s in the web for family physicians: diagnostic ultrasound

Alfred KY Tang 鄧權恩

臺大醫院綜合診療部超音波科首頁
中文超音波影像醫學教學檔
http://tis.mc.ntu.edu.tw/~sonar/

Numerous cases on diagnostic ultrasonography are presented. They are categorised into specialties such as obstetrics, surgery, urology, abdomen and paediatrics. Each case comes with history, ultrasound image and discussions.

Obstetrics Ultrasound
http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/

An obstetrics ultrasonogram website developed by a local obstetrician. It offers a comprehensive introduction to obstetrics ultrasonography with topics “What are obstetric ultrasound scans?”, “Why and when is ultrasound used in pregnancy?”, “The main use of ultrasonography”. Recent advances like transvaginal scan, doppler ultrasound, Colour Scan and 3D scan are also covered. The Image Library consists of more than 40 collections of ultrasound images. This site has received numerous awards from the major search engines on Internet.

Biosound Esaote Clinical Images
http://www.biosound.com/images.html

A library of clinical ultrasound images with the following headings: cardiac images, vascular images, stress echo images, abdominal images, small parts images, and obstetrics and gynaecology images.

Centre for Prenatal Diagnosis
http://www.cpdx.com/cpdx/main.htm

An educational tutorial on obstetrics ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis, illustrations by ultrasound images and detailed descriptions of what to look for. Both normal and abnormal findings of all trimesters are included, together with findings of foetal, uterine, and placental abnormalities.

Diagnostic Ultrasound
http://www.drgdiaz.com

A website on diagnostic ultrasound ranging from ultrasound basics (physics), recent advances like tissue characterisation with colour processing technique, and colour 3-D ultrasound, and then to creative potential developments of ultrasonography like telesonography.

GE Medical
http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/education/msucme.html

Online CME tutorials on ultrasound. Very well designed courses on ultrasound topics including learning objectives, introduction, what ultrasonogram can offer, basic ultrasonogram anatomy, diagnosis followed by a CME quiz of multiple choice giving users a good understanding of the topics they offer.

Sonography Sources
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mccormac/index.htm

Resourceful links to ultraound resources and links to ultrasounds images of various pathology. The chapter on sonographic topics covers tips on ultrasonogram of different organs, diseases and pathologies.