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ultrasound

  • Ultrasound technology uses sound to identify shapes. (Wikimedia Commons)
    Hearing A Shape
    Eric Sonstroem
    The first picture an expecting mother is likely to see of her developing fetus is not, technically, a picture at all. Most likely, it's an ultrasound image, produced by technology that has more to do with hearing than with seeing.