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Ultrasound technology -- known as Sonography in the allied healthcare industry -- is a diagnostic scanning technique in which high frequency sound waves are used to create images of the human body. An Ultrasound Technician is a valuable member of a medical team, providing the ultrasound images used by doctors to diagnose illness and injury.

Ultrasound technicians, or sonographers, follow this procedure:

• Explaining the ultrasound examination to patients
• Positioning patients for the clearest possible images
• Selecting equipment settings
• Moving a sonar transducer over the areas of the body being examined
• Taking measurements
• Calculating values
• Interpreting the visual information created by the sonography equipment
• Selecting images to show the physician
• Analyzing preliminary results

An ultrasound technician may also specialize in one of these medical areas:

• Obstetrics and gynecologic sonography
• Abdominal sonography
• Neurosonography
• Breast sonography

An ultrasound of the heart is called and an echocardiogram. Vascular technologists use ultrasound techniques to obtain information about how well patients' blood flows and carries oxygen.

Based on 2004 data, as an Ultrasound Technician/Sonographer you can expect to earn between at least $37,800 and up to more than $72,230 per year, with a median earning potential of $52,490 yearly.

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