From left are Paige Keech, Brooke Jorgenson and Kelsey Miller at a
national sonography conference. Not pictured is Kaylee Kellogg.
Medical sonography students place first in research
Nov 27, 2012
Grand Valley students who are majoring in diagnostic medical
sonography placed first in a research competition at their
organization's national meeting.
Brooke Jorgenson, Paige Keech, Kaylee Kellogg and Kelsey Miller
traveled to Seattle, Washington, to attend the Society of Diagnostic
Medical Sonography national meeting and present research on breast
sonography techniques using elastography. Elastography is used to
detect stiffness within the breast.
“We went to an off-campus medical site in Lansing this summer
and used their machine to do research on this type of imaging,” said
Keech. “We used a chicken breast and put different objects inside it
to measure their stiffness and to relate them to different breast pathologies.”
At the meeting, the students presented their research as a
poster, “Elastography Used in Diagnostic Breast Imaging.” This is the
first time Grand Valley has placed in this competition.
The national meeting also allowed the students to network with
professional in sonography.
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