TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Ultrasound Guidance for Interventional Pain Management A1 - Shankar, Hariharan A1 - Rajput, Kanishka A2 - Diwan, Sudhir A2 - Staats, Peter S. Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures AB - Lazzaro Spallanzani is credited with the initial discovery of ultrasound (US) navigation by bats in 1790. But it was Pierre Curie’s invention of the US-generating piezoelectric crystal that heralded further development of US technology. Following its utilization in medical imaging and guidance, US imaging has seen tremendous progress in its applications and technology in the last 5 decades. Recent years have seen a surge in the use of US for diagnosis and therapeutic interventions in regional anesthesia. US is now making progress in the field of pain medicine because of its utility both in the diagnosis of several nerve, muscle, and joint pathologies and for the ability to see the target and the needle for injection of therapeutic substances (Table 3-1). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/05 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1107195801 ER -