FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves setting ultrasonic apparatus transducer having 5 or 7.5 MHz operation frequency in the area between anterior boundary of the nodding muscle and thyroidal cartilage in sagittal plane for building pictures of all cervical vertebral bodies and vertebral canal at the same time. The picture is fixed and studied. The transducer is moved to posterior boundary of the nodding muscle in its superior half and positioned in frontal plane to produce images of transverse processes, arch-and-process articulations and vertebral canal. The picture is also fixed and studied. EFFECT: non-invasive examination method of common use.
Authors
Dates
1999-08-27—Published
1997-02-25—Filed