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Photo Gallery: Instrumentation
| Figure 1.
A dissembled echoscope showing the main water chamber and the
15-megacycle transducer, which was first used by Wild to confirm echoing
from soft tissues. Above the
crystal cartridge is the water chamber, which is used with degassed
distilled water and closed with a condom rubber membrane. |
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2.
An assembly of the original ultrasonic echoscopes designed and
built by Wild for the clinical diagnosis and detection of abnormal
growths.
Bottom left:
The first handheld echoscope used for application from outside of
the body through the skin and used for examination for areas such as the
breast (1950).
Second from left:
The first scanning instrument used to visualize breast tumors
(circa 1951).
Middle:
The first rigid echoscope designed to detect tumors of the large
bowel with two introductory instruments (circa 1951).
Upper right:
The first flexible colonic instrument, which followed the rigid
echoscope, also used for cancer detection of the large bowel and the
stomach (circa 1952).
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3.
2-Dimensional vaginal echoscope designed and built by Wild for the
cervix and pelvic ad nexia (the ovaries, etc.).
This is the first intravaginal ultrasonic echoscope (circa 1953). |
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