Diagnostic ultrasonics : principles and use of instruments

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Diagnostic ultrasonics : principles and use of instruments

W.N. McDicken

Churchill Livingstone, 1991

3rd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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A new edition of a successful book which has sold over 4000 copies of its current edition for John Wiley Inc. It covers - in a readable and practical way - the technical principles which form the basis for diagnostic ultrasound.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Diagnostic Ultrasonics. Basic Ultrasonic Instruments. The Nature of Ultrasound. Ultrasound in Tissue. Manipulation of Ultrasonic Waves and Signals. Controls of Equipment for Imaging By Echo Amplitude. A-Scan Instruments. Using A-Scan Instruments. Scan Converters and Computers in Gray-Shading Imaging. B-Scan Instruments. Performance of B-Scan Instruments. Using B-Scan Instruments. Real-Time Scan Instruments. Performance of Real-Time Scan Instruments. Using Real-Time Scan Instruments. Time-Motion Scan Instruments. Using Time-Motion Scan Instruments. Further Pulsed Echo-Imaging Instruments. Detection of Motion By Doppler Effect. Ultrasonic Doppler Instruments. Using Doppler Instruments. Display and Recording of Images. Further Details of Ultrasonic Transducers. Trends in Technical Developments Appendices: Quality Assurance for Echo Imaging. Quality Assurance for Doppler Techniques. The Decibel (Db) Notation. Measurement of Ultrasonic Pressure, Intensity, Power, Fields, Zones, And Beams. Labelling Planes of Scans. Miscellaneous Wave Phenomena. Absorption and Attenuation Coefficients. Index

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