Gilja Odd Helge, Hausken Trygve, Ødegaard Svein, Berstad Arnold
National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2005 Mar;17(3):277-82. doi: 10.1097/00042737-200503000-00004.
Improved technology and new clinical methods have expanded the possibilities of using ultrasound in the daily routine of gastroenterology. Gastrointestinal ultrasonography can, in principle, be applied in two different ways in patient management. It can be used as one imaging modality among others, for which the clinicians refer the patient to a radiologist, but it can also be used as a clinical tool, similar to the stethoscope, expanding on the clinical findings and paving the way for efficient work-up of patients. Furthermore, ultrasonography has scientific applications; for example, strain rate imaging and three-dimensional ultrasound are advanced methods that allow highly specified and detailed examination of the tissue or organ of interest.
技术的进步和新的临床方法扩大了超声在胃肠病学日常诊疗中应用的可能性。原则上，胃肠超声在患者管理中有两种不同的应用方式。它可以作为多种成像方式之一，临床医生会将患者转诊给放射科医生来进行此项检查；但它也可以作为一种临床工具，类似于听诊器，用于拓展临床检查结果，并为患者的有效检查铺平道路。此外，超声还有科学应用；例如，应变率成像和三维超声是先进的方法，能够对感兴趣的组织或器官进行高度精确和详细的检查。
