Veterinarians increasingly depend on this technology to diagnose feline disorders.

By Tom Ewing

Ultrasonography (or more simply, ultrasound) is an imaging technology that uses sound waves to visually study deeply seated, hard-to-reach areas of the body. Developed in the late 1940s as a tool for examining the internal organs of humans, the technology rapidly gained enthusiastic acceptance among physicians as a uniquely valuable diagnostic aid. Today, one-fourth of all human imaging procedures worldwide employ some form of ultrasound technology.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, ultrasound gradually made its way into the world of veterinary medicine. And in the past decade, its use has become a routine, if not essential, service offered in private veterinary clinics and large teaching hospitals focusing on small-animal…

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