Week 11 November 18

In this lab we were asked to complete an abdomen series focusing on the acoustic windows, breathing, exploring the ultrasound machine in the abdomen with emphasis on the abdomen. 

While doing this lab, I was not working fast enough to fully complete my whole abdomen scan.  I need to get myself in there and practice to make it go much quicker and smoothly.  I also need to spend some time focusing on scanning the pancreas.  This is the organ that I am having the most trouble with so far. 

Overall I am feeling pretty comfortable with the kidneys, liver, great vessels, gall bladder and spleen(except Hulda's).  I am attaching one of the images of the pancreas, just because this is my problem organ.  I felt that I should take a closer look at it.  I feel that this is a good image of the pancreas. 

During this lab I did spend more time focusing on using my gain, focus, breathing and TGCs.  I feel that I am doing a better job at producing images that are pleasing to the eye, well I suppose I should say my eye.  It can be a lot to remember making sure that you adjust everything on every image, but slowly I am getting better.