Competency information

Details

Manipulate an ultrasound probe to acquire colour Doppler images of arteries and veins in longitudinal and transverse cross-sections.

Considerations

  • Principles of Doppler ultrasound.
  • Fundamental scientific principles of colour Doppler imaging.
  • Application of colour Doppler ultrasound in the imaging of artery and vein haemodynamics.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 2 Outcome Acquire an optimised colour Doppler image and evaluate the characteristic features of a normal and diseased artery and a vein on a colour Doppler image.