Resources
Glossary.
The language ProbeAI uses, and the language sonographers use, in one place.
The words on the screen.
- Slide
- Moving the probe across the skin while keeping the same angle.
- Rock
- Tilting the probe along its long axis, toward the head or the tail, without moving the footprint.
- Fan
- Tilting the probe side to side across its short axis to sweep the beam through the organ.
- Rotate
- Turning the probe about its own axis, for example a quarter turn from lengthwise to crosswise.
- Cue
- A single on-screen instruction, one at a time: slide, rock, fan or rotate, with an arrow.
- Probe marker
- The notch or dot on one side of the probe that matches the orientation marker on screen. By convention it points toward the head.
- Coaching moment
- A short on-screen tip that appears inside the scanning workflow when it is needed, for example "Can't find it".
Guiding the scan, not the diagnosis.
- Acquisition
- Getting the image: placing the probe, adjusting it, and capturing the views a protocol needs. What ProbeAI guides.
- Diagnosis
- The clinical conclusion the veterinarian reaches from the exam and the patient. Made by the veterinarian, never by ProbeAI.
- Protocol
- A defined set of required views for one organ or window, with a starting landmark and a capture checklist. Each organ in the abdominal exam has its own protocol.
- View
- One standard image plane within a protocol, for example the lengthwise view of the bladder.
- Lengthwise (sagittal)
- A view along the long axis of the organ, head to tail.
- Crosswise (transverse)
- A view across the organ at right angles to the long axis.
- Landmark
- The anatomical starting point for a protocol, for example the pubic bone for the bladder.
- Capture
- Saving a view once it matches the protocol. In ProbeAI the app captures and ticks the checklist when the view is confirmed.
What the target looks like.
- Anechoic
- Black on the image, because fluid lets the beam pass without echoes. A full bladder is anechoic.
- Hyperechoic
- Bright on the image, from strong echoes. Gas, bone and some walls read hyperechoic.
- Acoustic shadow
- The dark band behind something that blocks the beam, such as gas or a stone.
- Sector
- The fan-shaped field of a curvilinear or phased-array probe, apex at the top. The shape in the ProbeAI mark.
Where the scans go today.
- POCUS
- Point-of-care ultrasound: focused scans done by the treating clinician at the patient, rather than a full study by a sonographer.
- Video (HDMI) output
- The port on many ultrasound machines that sends the live screen image to an external display. ProbeAI connects there.
- Mobile sonographer
- A visiting operator who comes to the practice to scan, typically on a schedule and for a per-visit fee.
- Tele-guidance
- Remote coaching of an on-site operator by a specialist on a live call.
- Referral
- Sending the case to another hospital for the scan. The study, and often the client, go with it.
See ProbeAI in action.
Meet with us for a 30-minute demo and see how ProbeAI guides an exam.