Registered diagnostic cardiac sonographer skills for your resume and career

M-mode is defined as 'time motion display of the ultrasound wave along a chosen ultrasound line and it was the preferred imaging modality in the early days of ultrasound.' M-mode pulses a narrow ultrasound beam in a single plane through the heart, producing provides a unidimensional view of the heart.

Picture archiving and communication system or, as is more commonly shortened, PACS, is a type of imaging scan used in medical treatment and other such work which provides effective storing and access to images and scans created by a large variety of machinery and medical tools. This might include scans such as CTs and MRIs and even basic X-rays and the system can also potentially be used to store digitised versions of originally physical paper documents.

Diagnostic procedures is a broad term that includes all the techniques medical professionals use to narrow down a disease or condition. Treating a patient only begins when doctors successfully diagnose the disease, so diagnostic procedures are crucial.

A catheterization laboratory, or a cath lab, is a specialized room in a hospital where doctors perform minimally invasive tests and procedures to diagnose and treat medical diseases. It is an examination room equipped with diagnostic imaging equipment. The equipment there can visualize chambers and arteries of the heart to rule out any possibility of atherosclerosis, obstruction in vessels/valves, or any other malignancies in the heart.