Doctors have used sonar-like sound waves to image fetal development for decades – ultrasound is typically used to determine gender, measure body parts, and view a baby’s first movements. An ultrasound wand is attached to a computer, monitor, and extended keyboard with backlit buttons that say funny things like “4D” and “3D” or just a pictogram of a woman’s naked midriff. We can assume that GE developed the Voluson line to improve prenatal health care, but no matter how clinical the operator might be, it’s still the first photograph in the history of the human being in question – and that makes it something of an emotional tool as well. Tom Cruise was so enamored with an ultrasound machine that he bought one for unlimited home viewing of Suri while she was still inside Katie Holmes — it was a celebrity pseudo-endorsement that gave birth to the field of nonmedical prenatal portraiture.
via Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5117916/treasured-moments-inside-the-weird-world-of-4d-prenatal-portraits
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