Medical Education for Exploration Class Missions NASA Aerospace Medicine Elective at the Kennedy Space Centre

ultrasonography is a versatile imaging modality that offers many ad-vantages over radiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imag-ing. on Earth, the use of ultrasound has become standard in many areas of medi-cine including diagnosis of medical and surgical diseases, management of obstetricand gynecologic conditions, assessment of critically ill patients, and proceduralguidance. Advances in telecommunications have enabled remotely-guided ultraso-nography for both geographically isolated populations and astronauts aboard theInternational Space Station. while ultrasound has traditionally been used in space-flight to study anatomical and physiological adaptations to microgravity and evalu-ate countermeasures, recent years have seen a growth of applications adapted fromterrestrial techniques. Terrestrial, remote, and space applications for ultrasound arereviewed in this paper.