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Ultrasound is a tomographic imaging method like CT and MRI. These imaging methods generate anatomical slices. In CT and MRI, the distance between the slices is variable according to indication and anatomical region. It may be 1 mm, 2 mm, or 4 mm, for instance. For ultrasound, slices are produced continuously comparable with a movie. An anatomical slice provides an overview of only a limited anatomical region. This makes the interpretation of ultrasound images more difficult. Furthermore, ultrasound only depicts the anatomical area between probe and bone surface.
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Bruyn, G.A., Schmidt, W.A. (2023). General Sonoanatomy. In: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for the Rheumatologist. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27737-5_4
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