methods forms and materials described in fig1 as needed for particular applications a simplified variation is a hand held form as illustrated in fig2 here a bladder device made of thin rubber as specified for the rubber sheet 2 of fig1 this apparatus retains the same reservoir 13 and tube 12 as before the reservoir elevation would be higher than the bladder device 16 to keep most fluid in the bladder 16 the transducer 7 is now hand held and lateral motions 8 and axial motion 9 are manually carried out operation of this arrangement is made flexible because the amount of fluid in the pouch can vary so that contact with the pouch will be maintained for a substantial range of axial motion of the transducer if electronic system settings are kept unchanged the image frame can be safely moved in the axial direction as needed and moving across uneven body contours can be safely done the hand held method is again illustrated in fig3 here the reservoir is eliminated and the bladder 16 is filled with attenuating fluid through a rubber plug 17 with a syringe a particular form is implemented using hitachi part number ezu wl1 with evaporated milk being the fluid that is inserted with the syringe after any water therein is removed use of this device as herein modified will prevent accidental use of high intensity ultrasound when using it with a stand off to see shallow features in the body it will also assure that all ray paths from the transducer face 6 to the focus point 18 are equally attenuated when a conventional ultrasound transducer such as illustrated in fig2.