Color Doppler Ultrasonography is a radiological imaging method used to examine the blood flow of an organ or vessel. With Doppler, the amount of blood flow, the presence of a structure blocking the flow, and whether the flow is in the normal direction can be evaluated. Doppler has the same advantages as ultrasonography examination.

Which Body Parts Can Be Imaged with This Method?

Leg and arm veins: It enables the detection of stenosis, blockage due to calcification (atherosclerosis) plaques in the arteries and whether there are clots, inflammation, insufficiency and varicose veins in the veins.

Neck veins: It is used to detect stenosis, blockage due to calcification plaques in the main artery leading to the brain in the neck and its branches, or to detect the flow rate of the veins feeding the back part of the brain.

Vessels feeding the kidney: Diabetes, hypertension, etc. It is used to determine the extent to which the vessels feeding the kidneys are affected in diseases and to detect congenital stenosis of the renal vessels.

Vessels feeding the liver: Cirrhosis etc. It is used to examine the changes that occur in the vessels feeding the liver in diseases. Vessels of the mother and the fetus in pregnant women: Possible anomalies are detected by examining the speed and characteristics of blood flow in fetuses with suspected growth retardation based on the last menstrual period and in pregnant women with hypertension. It is also used to detect the presence of fetal heart flow and therefore whether the fetus is alive or not.

Veins feeding the testicles in men: Irregular enlargements (varicose veins) in the veins feeding the testicles are an important cause of infertility in men. It is used for possible insufficiency in the veins and sometimes torsion that occurs as a result of the testicles turning around themselves. Vessels feeding the eye: Detects changes in eye vessels in diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, etc. Vascularization of a mass occurring in any part of the body: Whether or not there are vessels feeding a mass (tumor) is an important criterion in determining whether that mass is benign or malignant. Profuse bleeding from the mass is an indication that this mass has malignant properties.