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Exam preparation
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• Room set-up: machine placement, bed positioning, dimming lights
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• Machine set-up: patient information, probe selection, exam-type
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• Patient set-up: communication, positioning, maintaining modesty
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Right kidney
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• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey, techniques to aid image acquisition
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• Scanning: image optimization (depth, gain, centering), fanning organ in long and short axis, saving video loops
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• Anatomy identification: liver, hepatorenal recess, renal cortex, medullary pyramids, renal sinus
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Left kidney
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• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey, techniques to aid image acquisition
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• Scanning: image optimization, fanning organ in long and short axis, saving video loops
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• Anatomy identification: liver, splenorenal recess, renal cortex, medullary pyramids, renal sinus
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Bladder
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• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey
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• Scanning: image optimization, fanning organ in long and short axis, freezing image, measuring bladder dimensions, saving images
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• Bladder volume calculation
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Gallbladder
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• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey, techniques to aid image acquisition
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• Scanning: image optimization, fanning organ in long and short axis, saving video loops
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• Anatomy identification: liver, gallbladder body and neck, main lobar fissure, portal vein
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