Question 1: Ultrasonic energy was first applied to the human body for medical purposes by Dr. George Ludwig at the Naval Medical Research Institute, ________ in the late 1940s.
Question 2: It is possible to perform both diagnosis and therapeutic procedures, using ultrasound to guide interventional procedures (for instance ________ or drainage of fluid collections).
Question 3: The sound is focused either by the shape of the transducer, a lens in front of the transducer, or a complex set of control pulses from the ultrasound scanner machine (________).
Question 6: For example, overlying gas in the gastrointestinal tract often makes ultrasound scanning of the ________ difficult, and lung imaging is not possible (apart from demarcating pleural effusions).