DESCRIPTION:
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. Covering all aspects of the field at a level that meetings the requirements of accredited sonography courses, it is ideal for both trainee and qualified healthcare professionals practising ultrasound in a clinical setting. Building on the content of previous editions, this third edition provides the latest guidance relating to ultrasound technology, quality assurance and safety and discusses the latest techniques.

CONTENTS:
1. Introduction to B-mode imaging
2. Physics
3. Transducers and beam forming
4. B-mode instrumentation
5. Properties, limitations and artefacts of B-mode images
6. B-mode measurements
7. Principles of Doppler ultrasound
8. Blood flow
9. Spectral Doppler ultrasound
10. Colour flow
11. Advanced techniques for imaging flow and tissue motion
12. Three-dimensional ultrasound
13. Contrast agents
14. Elastography
15. Quality assurance
16. Safety of diagnostic ultrasound
Appendix A: The decibel
Appendix B: Acoustic output parameters and their measurement