Chapter 3 Flashcards
Who was the first to measure the velocity of sound and has since been referred to as “father of acoustics”
Mersenne
Who noted “there is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres”
Pythagoras
Who identified the pebble theory, which he recognized by dropping a pebble into water.
Boethius
Who is credied as the “Father of ultrasound”
Sapallanzani
Who studied how bats utilized sound waves to detect their victims and
to guide their Flight
Sapallanzani
Who discovered that the pitch of a sound wave varies if the source of the
sound was moving, a principle referred to as the Doppler effect.’
Doppler
Which two individuals are credited for recognizing the piezoelectric effect
Pierre and Jacques
Used ultrasound technology to image the lateral ventricles in the brain.
Dussik
Who utilized the reflectoscope as an instrument that used ultrasound to detect flaws in metals
Firestone
Who is considered the “father of echocardiography”
Edler
Continuous wave transducer is also known as
Pedoff probe
What are some downfalls in pedoff probe?
There is no image provided and one cannot select the depth.
Tissue Harmonic Imaging
Crisper, high resolution image
