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Advanced Imaging at Sentara: Ultrasound
Ultrasound is a method of imaging that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce precise images of organs and structures inside the body. Most associate ultrasound images with pregnancy and viewing a developing fetus, but there are many other uses for ultrasound technology in all areas of medicine.
Physicians use ultrasound images to see the heart, blood vessels, liver, gallbladder and other organs. No radiation is used during the procedure, making it an extremely safe way of getting precise images of internal organs. Using high frequency sound waves—higher than the human ear can detect—an ultrasound sends waves into the body using a hand-held device called a transducer. After the waves bounce off tissues, they are picked back up by the transducer and a computer processes the information to produce an image. These images provide important information that can help a physician diagnose and treat disease.
Ultrasound may be used to diagnose gallbladder disease, evaluate flow in blood vessels, check the biopsy and treatment of a tumor, study the heart, diagnose some forms of infection, diagnose some forms of cancer and reveal abnormalities in the scrotum and prostate, among other things.
For more information on ultrasound testing, visit Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Ultrasound Testing Locations:
For more information on these locations, select one of the locations listed above from our Where to Go section.
 Advanced Imaging Center—Sentara Port Warwick, Newport News
Advanced Imaging Center—Sentara Princess Anne, Virginia Beach
Advanced Imaging Center—Sentara Greenbrier Healthplex, Chesapeake
Executive Evaluation Center—Wainwright, Norfolk
Geddy Outpatient Center, Williamsburg
Sentara Bayside Hospital, Virginia Beach
Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Hampton
Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk
Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
Smithfield Imaging Center, Smithfield
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