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This popular text provides a comprehensive, yet accessible, introduction to the physics and technology of medical ultrasound, with high quality ultrasound images and diagrams throughout.
List of contents
Preface to the third edition Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Contributors 1. Introduction to B-mode imaging
Kevin Martin
2. Physics
Kevin Martin and Kumar Ramnarine
3. Transducers and beam forming
Tony Whittingham and Kevin Martin
4. B-mode instrumentation
Kevin Martin
5. Properties, limitations and artefacts of B-mode images
Kevin Martin
6. B-mode measurements
Nick Dudley
7. Principles of Doppler ultrasound
Peter R. Hoskins
8. Blood flow
Abigail Thrush
9. Spectral Doppler ultrasound
Abigail Thrush
10. Colour flow
Peter R. Hoskins and Aline Criton
11. Advanced techniques for imaging flow and tissue motion
Peter R. Hoskins and Aline Criton
12. Three-dimensional ultrasound
Peter R. Hoskins and Tom MacGillivray
13. Contrast agents
Carmel Moran and Mairéad Butler
14. Elastography
Peter R. Hoskins
15. Quality assurance
Nick Dudley, Tony Evans, and Peter R. Hoskins
16. Safety of diagnostic ultrasound
Francis Duck
Appendix A: The decibel
Appendix B: Acoustic output parameters and their measurement
Glossary
Answers
Index
About the author
Peter Hoskins is Professor of Medical Physics and Biomechanics at the University of Edinburgh, UK
Kevin Martin is a retired Consultant Clinical Scientist and former Head of the Instrumentation Division, Medical Physics Department, University of Leicester, UK
Abigail Thrush is a Clinical Scientist (Medical Physics), Associate Lecturer at University of Salford and University of Derby and also works in the Imaging Department, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Summary
This popular text provides a comprehensive, yet accessible, introduction to the physics and technology of medical ultrasound, with high quality ultrasound images and diagrams throughout.
