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Sonography’s Future and Past
Don Baker sees new applications for sonography while Joan Baker looks back .
By Beth W. Orenstein
In the television series Star Trek, Mr. Spock
used a handheld device called a tricorder to
scan people and assess what was amiss with
them. Don Baker sees the day when the Star
Trek invention is reality and that reality involves
sonography.
“Eventually, doctors will have handheld devices
that they will put near their patients and be able
to say, ‘Here’s what’s wrong,’” said Don Baker,
an electrical engineer whose discoveries in 1967,
while working at the University of Washington
in Seattle, helped lead to the creation of today’s
diagnostic ultrasound equipment. “It may seem
like science fiction, like Mr. Spock’s tricorder to
those who are familiar with Star Trek, but that’s
where sonography is headed,” he said in an
interview about the future of sonography at the
SDMS annual conference in Foxwoods Resort
and Casino in Connecticut in October.
It may take another 20 to 30 years for ultrasound
equipment to be that small and that quick with
definitive results, Don said. But some companies
already have manufactured equipment that is not
much bigger than the palm of the sonographer’s
hand – Sonosite Corp. of Bothell, Washington, is
but one example. Don Baker expects many more
will follow suit as will the increased capabilities of
the miniaturized sonographic equipment. “That’s
really where the future of this field is headed,” he
said.
Don Baker spoke about the future of sonography
after his British born and educated wife, Joan
Baker, MSR, RDMS, RDCS, FSDMS, delivered
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Don Baker at the 2008
SDMS Annual Conference
and treatment begun, saving lives.
the Stephen McLaughlin
Memorial Lecture on
sonography’s past.
The advantage to having
handheld devices is
that the clinician can
then take the ultrasound
equipment directly to the
patient wherever he or
she is – whether that’s
on the battlefield, in
outer space, the scene
of the accident or in the
emergency room, Don
Baker said. A diagnosis
can be made immediately
Those advantages are what will encourage engineers
and other researchers to continue to pursue the
development of smaller ultrasound devices with greater
capabilities, Don said. “You’re already seeing more and
more handheld, small devices. That’s a process that is
going on continually and it’s dependent on the evolution
of large scale integrated electronic circuits.”
The central question, he said, will be rather “how much
function can you put into a small piece of silicon?” The
answer may be unimaginable today, but not for long, he
said.
“They are putting more and more transistors into a
smaller and smaller volume,” Don said. “But there still
is future growth there and I believe you’re going to see
smaller and more powerful ultrasound instruments. The
big ultrasound machines weighing 300 to 400 pounds
that need to be wheeled on carts into the exam room will
disappear. Those days will be over.”
Don Baker also can foresee the development of
ultrasound equipment that is used to deliver therapeutic
drugs directly into the body where they may be needed.
“This would be selective introduction of localized drugs,
where they are activated by sound,” he said. Don said he
is aware of at least one project in the Seattle area, where
researchers are attempting to use sound waves to send
drugs directly to the disease tissue and then activate
them to fight it off.
This specialty physics field, sonoluminescence or light
from sound, dates to the 1930s, but researchers are just
now discovering how drugs can be activated by this light.
Delivering personalized drugs with ultrasound still may
be 10 years away, “but it is coming. I have no doubt,”
Don said.
“Albert Einstein said good science is indistinguishable
from magic,” Don said. “Sonoluminescence is one of
those effects that appear like magic, but has a real
physical basis.”
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Don Baker also sees the day when sonography alone
may be used to differentiate between benign and
malignant tumors. “At the moment, we can look at a
sonogram and say, ‘Here’s an area where there’s a
mass.’ We can see the outline of it, and we might get
some growth information from what we see or to get
impressions from its perimeter and shape and location.
What we’re looking at today is size, shape and location
of the mass, but we’re not at the point of saying whether
it is benign or malignant from the imaging alone. That
cannot be determined at this point. At the moment, we
have to resort to another diagnostic method, most often
biopsy of the tissue, so that it can be examined under
a microscope by a pathologist in the laboratory. Biopsy
is the method that most people would use today to
differentiate normal from abnormal.”
However, Don said, the day is not too far off where
physicians working with sonographers will be able to
“Albert Einstein said good
science is indistinguishable
from magic. Sonoluminescence
is one of those effects that
appear like magic, but has a
real physical basis.”
look at the screen and determine from the way the
tissue scatters sound whether it is malignant or not.
“If you have a layered structure versus a very diffused
structure, you really get into the underlying physics of
the way sound interacts with the tissue and analyzing
the signals that would come back from that would be
very revealing,” he said. Some research of this type is
under way at academic medical centers, Don said. “It’s
not in clinical medicine yet, but once it is understood and
it’s reproducible, then it will gradually find its way into
potential clinical applications and find its way into the
display capabilities of the ultrasound instruments. That’s
another area for future growth.”
Still another idea that Don Baker sees coming to fruition
in the near future is ultrasound equipment that can
provide the physician with a third opinion. The ultrasound
equipment of the future, he believes, will be capable of
analyzing such disease features as flow patterns and
structural patterns of tissue and from that data make a
diagnosis. It is similar to computer aided detection (CAD)
used in MRI or X-ray, Don said. “In my view, medical
diagnosis is a process of differential pattern recognition,
what the instrument is capable of doing is comparing
the pattern of a normal person to the disease process
that can be detected from that individual. Our and the

instrument’s ability to diagnose is dependent on our
ability to differentiate between so-called normal and the
detected pattern that is the disease process.”
Don Baker and his colleagues at the University of
Washington did research in this area when they
were developing Doppler. “We studied carotid artery
stenosis and vascular disease by evaluating the blood
flow patterns in the carotid arteries in the neck. Our
diagnosis was made by listening to the signal rather
than looking at the image. The mind is a great analyzer
of detecting between normal and abnormal sounds.
We never really pursued this avenue a lot because
medicine is preoccupied with imaging. All instruments
end up displaying something on a screen. But what I’m
saying is that within the ultrasonic data from the subject
there are a lot of other things that contain diagnostic
information that may not be shown as a 2D or 3D image.
That’s undeveloped. I’m expecting that the sonographic
equipment will be developed so that sonographers
will be able to use a transducer and tell you what’s
happening without looking at a picture on a screen or
even seeing the patient.”
Which of these areas are developed further and which
come to fruition first will depend largely on financing,
Don said. From the standpoint of medical technology
and engineering, “we are capable of many things,” he
said. “On the other hand, a lot of times, what gets done
is due to not just medical need but also as the result of
social and economic considerations.” As an engineer,
Don said, people would often tell him “I’d like to do this.”
And, his reply would be: “How badly do you want to do
it? How much are you willing to pay? How long are you
willing to wait until it gets done? It’s the old story of, if
you can conceive of it, you very likely can do it, but what
gets done and at what pace depends on economics.”
Joan Baker, MSR, RDMS,
RDCS, FSDMS
Joan Baker:
Sonography has roots
in ancient Greece and
need for looking inside
His wife, Joan Baker’s,
McLaughlin Memorial
Lecture was titled,
“Getting Back to Our
Historical Roots:
Evolution of the
Sonography Profession.”
The lecture, the third
annual, honored Stephen
McLaughlin, BS, RT,
RDMS, who served as
president of SDMS from
2000-2002 and who died in January 2005 after a 19month
battle with brain cancer.
In her 60-minute lecture, Joan Baker took ultrasound
from its roots in ancient times to its current applications
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as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool. One of the
very first instruments using sound was invented by
Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician who is probably
more famous for his theorem about right-angled
triangles, she said. Pythagoras invented the Sonometer
to study musical sounds.
However, she said, it was French physicist Pierre Curie’s
discovery of piezoelectricity in 1877 that is considered
to be beginning of ultrasound. Curie’s discovery was
followed 35 years later by French professor and physicist
Paul Langevin who developed sonographic imaging,
Joan Baker said. Langevin was one of Curie’s first
students.
X-rays were discovered by William Conrad Roentgen in
1895. The discovery was one of many in the 19th and
20th centuries as scientists were looking to develop
probes and scopes that would allow them to look inside
the human body, Joan said.
But it was an historic event – the sinking of the Titanic on
its maiden voyage in 1912 – that led to the development
of ultrasound. The sinking of the Titanic made people
want to know how to detect submerged objects, she
said.
“Constantin Chilowsky came up with the idea for an
ultrasonic detection system that he brought to the
attention of the French government. The French
government turned this over to Paul Langevin,” she
said. “The French government called upon Langevin
to develop a device capable of detecting submerged
enemy submarines. The device he developed used the
piezoelectric effect that he had learned as a student of
the Curies.”
While the device that Langevin developed in 1917 was
not ready in time to help in the war effort, it formed
the basis of sonar (SOund NAvigation And Ranging)
detection, which was developed during World War II,
Joan Baker said.
Sonography as a medical diagnostic modality is
relatively new and its first medical applications were
therapeutic, she said.
In the 1920s and ’30s, ultrasound was used for physical
therapy, primarily for members of soccer teams in
Europe. In the 1940s, Baker said, ultrasound was seen
as a “cure-all” remedy. It was used for everything from
arthritic pains to gastric ulcers to eczema.
The first physician to use sonography in medical
diagnosis is believed to be Karl Dussik, a neurologist/
psychiatrist at the University of Vienna, Joan said. In
the 1940s, Dussik and his physicist brother, Freiderich,
tried to locate brain tumors and cerebral ventricles
by measuring the transmission of the ultrasound
beam through the skull. They called their procedure
hyperphonography, Joan said.

In the late 1940s, ultrasound also was used to detect
gall stones. In the 1950s, ultrasound was used on
the heart in Sweden. Inge Edler, a cardiologist, and
Hellmuth Hertz, a physicist, are considered the “fathers”
of echocardiography, Joan Baker said. They met over
lunch in 1953 and began a collaboration from which
millions have benefited, she said.
In 1956, in the United States, Robert Rushmer,
a pediatrician turned cardiovascular physiologist/
bioengineer, brought two young engineers, Dean
Franklin and Joan’s husband, Don, together to design
instruments that could be used to characterize the
cardiovascular system in un-anesthetized dogs. “This
led to the development of continuous wave Doppler as a
handheld device,” Joan said.
The late ’60s and early ’70s are often referred to as the
“sonic boom,” as 2D echo was introduced by Klaus Bom
and Don Baker and Dennis Watkins developed pulsed
Doppler, Joan said. Don was head of the engineering
team that later developed color Doppler and duplex
scanning, she noted.
The early 1980s saw the development of real time
ultrasound. With this development, “ultrasound became
more believable because those not used to using it
could recognize what they were looking at,” she said.
Joan and others formed the American Society of
Ultrasound Technical Specialists (ASUTS) in 1970.
The New Year is here and we know what everyone
is thinking.
What will this year’s New Year resolution be? How
can I live a healthier life? What can I do better this
year?
Here are ten tips to help get you started. For more
information about the Go Green tips below, visit
http://www.ewg.org/solutions.
1. Use cast iron pans instead of nonstick.
2. To avoid chemicals leaching into food, go easy
on processed, canned or fast foods and never
microwave plastic.
3. Buy organic, or eat vegetables and fruit from
the “Cleanest 12” list.
4. Pregnant women should use iodized salt to
combat chemical interference from the thyroid.
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The ASUTS was the forerunner of the SDMS, originally
the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers.
It eventually became the Society of Diagnostic
Medical Sonography to incorporate all involved in the
organization, Joan said.
Another key moment in the history of sonography was in
1973 when the United States Office of Education created
the occupation of sonographer. Joan, representing the
ASUTS, was among those leaders of the profession
fighting hard for the recognition of the occupation. “This
was a high stress experience and I always say it put 10
years on my life,” she said.
The next battle was to define the educational
requirements for a sonographer, Joan said. “In 1974,
a committee was formed to write the Document of
Essentials,” Baker said. “It took five years to get an
agreement.” The Joint Review Commission on Education
in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JRCDMS) was
founded in 1979.
Joan is currently a partner in Sound Ergonomics in
Kenmore, Washington, where she continues to work
toward reducing worked-related musculoskeletal injuries.
Sonographers are prone to work related musculoskeletal
injuries, and it has been an area of great interest to Joan
since the mid-’90s. Don Baker is retired.
Beth W. Orenstein is a writer for SDMS.
Tips for Going Green and
Living a Healthier Life
5. Seal outdoor
wooden structures.
6. Leave your shoes
at the door.
7. Avoid perfume,
cologne and
products with
added fragrance.
8. Buy products with
natural fibers, like
cotton and wool
that are naturally fire resistant.
9. Eat low-mercury fish like tilapia & pollock,
rather than high-mercury choices like tuna &
swordfish.
10. Filter your water for drinking and cooking.

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Medical Ultrasound Bids
Farewell To One Of Its Pioneers
The SDMS Educational Foundation would like to
thank you for your generous support in 2008. Your
donations through membership renewal, the Silent
Auction, and the Foundation 50/50 totaled over
$20,000! One of the programs funded by your
donations is the Registry Grant Program, in which
students may receive a grant as a reward for receiving
their certification from the ARDMS or CCI.
In 2008, the inaugural year for this grant program,
$16,000 was distributed through this program!
Your donations to the Foundation help the
sonography community by providing educational
opportunities to sonographers and students. When
you make a donation, you help sonographers
become better health care professionals. Each
year the Foundation receives many applications
from sonographers and students, but unfortunately
Martin Buchalter, 76, a pioneer in the field of Medical
Ultrasound, died Monday, November 17th at his home in
New York City. Mr. Buchalter was the President and CEO
of Parker Laboratories, Inc., a leading manufacturer of
ultrasound and electromedical contact media. He guided
Parker to international prominence through a career
dedicated to inventiveness and marketing savvy. Through
his foresight, Aquasonic ® 100 Ultrasound Transmission Gel
was developed and helped shape the medical ultrasound
industry. A proud graduate of the University of Sciences in
Philadelphia, PA, he also held an MSc from Long Island
University. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Carol;
three children; and six grandchildren. Memorial donations
to the Martin Buchalter Scholarship fund at University
of Sciences, Philadelphia, PA 19104, or to Alzheimer’s
research are welcomed.
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Foundation News
some of those applicants cannot be given the help
they need. An increasing number of employers
have cut continuing education assistance from their
budgets and sonographers must come up with the
means to attend seminars and other meetings for
continuing education. Students are faced with the
challenge of acquiring the knowledge necessary
to become diagnostic medical sonographers, while
worrying where they can get financial aid.
The SDMS Educational Foundation would like
to encourage you to support the community by
donating generously. The Foundation is a public
charity and your donations are tax deductible.
For more information about the Foundation
and its programs supporting sonographers and
sonography students, please visit:
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SDMS Fellow
Spotlight
Andrea C. Skelly, PhD,
MPH, FAIUM, FSDMS
Year awarded fellow
status: 1993
Current position:
Director, Evidence-
Based Practice Division
at Spectrum Research,
Tacoma, Washington
What inspired you to start your career in
sonography?
I was a student at Colorado State University in
1978. One of my professors, Chuck Miller, offered
a course to veterinary students and engineers
on various aspects of ultrasound. I was the only
undergraduate to sign up for it and he let me in.
That stimulated my interest in ultrasound. There
were only four baccalaureate-level programs in
sonography and Seattle University was one of
them. I told my folks I was moving to Seattle and
started in the winter of 1979. I did my clinical
internship at the University of Colorado Health
Sciences in Denver returning to teach at Seattle
U from 1981 to 2002. While teaching, I was asked
by my dean to get an advanced degree. There
was nothing relevant to ultrasound in terms of
advanced degrees so I earned a master’s in public
health (epidemiology major) in 1996. Then my
dean required me to earn a PhD, which I did - in
epidemiology in 2006. I have been in my current
position at Spectrum Research for 3½ years.
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This is a continuing series of interviews of
our distinguished SDMS Fellow members.
How has your education/experience in
sonography helped you in your current
position?
I have been able to use my science and clinical
backgrounds and knowledge of pathophysiology
in my research. Also, I am a former chair of the
ARDMS and was on the boards of the AIUM, ASE
and ICAEL during which time I was very active in
promoting standards in the field of sonography.
Those experiences provided me with tools to create
credentialing criteria for other professions for the
state of Washington. They helped me know what
types of information were needed and whom to
talk to to get it. I’ve been able to use my science,
ultrasound and clinical backgrounds in my current
position, which is focused on evidence-based
medicine and technology assessment.
What advice would you give to students/future
sonographers?
Seek a science-based sonography degree. It
gives you additional problem-solving skills and
abilities and additional routes for furthering your
education and applying your knowledge within
sonography as well as outside of it. Also, be active
in your profession and look for commonality across
specialties. Many of my former students (Laurinda
Andrist, Shannon Boswell, Terry Tye and others)
are active in the profession. I think that I can be
proud that I contributed to the education of people
like them (~400 students!) and hopefully to their
interest in becoming active in their profession to
some degree.
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Call for Nominations for 2009 Elected Positions
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SDMS Welcomes New Members
November 2008
Zeyad Abousy RDMS, RVT
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Amanda Allen BS, RDMS, RVT
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Karen Brown RT(R), RDCS, RCS,
Lucille Bruner RDCS
Bruce Brunner RDMS, RVT
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Linda Bunting RDMS, RVT
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