Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging provides a unified description of the physical principles of ultrasound imaging, signal processing, systems and measurements. This comprehensive reference is a core resource for both graduate students and engineers in medical ultrasound research and design. With continuing rapid technological development of ultrasound in medical diagnosis, it is a critical subject for biomedical engineers, clinical and healthcare engineers and practitioners, medical physicists, and related professionals in the fields of signal and image processing.

The book contains 17 new and updated chapters covering the fundamentals and latest advances in the area, and includes four appendices, 450 figures, and almost 1,500 references. In addition to the continual influx of readers entering the field of ultrasound worldwide who need the broad grounding in the core technologies of ultrasound, this book provides those already working in these areas with clear and comprehensive expositions of these key new topics as well as introductions to state-of-the-art innovations in this field.

• Enables practicing engineers, students and clinical professionals to understand the essential physics and signal processing techniques behind modern imaging systems as well as introducing the latest developments that will shape medical ultrasound in the future
• Suitable for both newcomers and experienced readers, the practical, progressively organized applied approach is supported by hands-on MATLAB code and worked examples that enable readers to understand the principles underlying diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound
• Covers the new important developments in the use of medical ultrasound: elastography and high-intensity therapeutic ultrasound. Many new developments are comprehensively reviewed and explained, including aberration correction, acoustic measurements, acoustic radiation force imaging, alternate imaging architectures, bioeffects: diagnostic to therapeutic, Fourier transform imaging, multimode imaging, plane wave compounding, research platforms, synthetic aperture, vector Doppler, transient shear wave elastography, ultrafast imaging and Doppler, functional ultrasound and viscoelastic models

Review

“…a thorough treatment of medical ultrasound, suitable for new graduates and for those working in the field…I recommend it highly as an excellent reference work.”–SCOPE, Sep-14

“You might think: “Yet another book covering a well-known medical topic?” – yes, that is right but it is written from a technical insider in a way that helps to understand the essential physics and signal processing techniques behind modern imaging systems as well as the processing of the resulting echo information step-by-step…The author is successful [at] span[ing] the descriptive bridge between the technology implemented “inside” a modern ultrasonic imaging system for emitting and for processing the information that is coming back from “outside” after interacting with the human body. Theory and reality is combined in a comprehensive, illustrative and practical manner to enjoy the reading and learning of diagnostic ultrasound imaging.”

Christian Kollmann, Vienna, European Journal of Ultrasound

 “This book is well suited to MATLAB, a high-level programming language, including demonstrations of figures and examples with MATLAB programming lines. Accompanying program sets, solutions, and programs can be found on the Elsevier web site. In addition, a review of Fourier transforms is included with step-by-step worked out examples.

Earl, Reference Coordinator,

University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Preston Medical Library

From the Back Cover

Diagnostic Ultrasound Imagingprovides a comprehensive introduction to a state-of-the-art review of the essential science and signal processing principles of diagnostic ultrasound. The progressive organization of the material serves beginners and graduate students in medical ultrasound science as well as design engineers, medical physicists, researchers, clinical collaborators and the curious. This is the most comprehensive and extensive work available on the core science and workings of advanced medical ultrasound systems, exploring subjects in a unified, consistent and interrelated manner.

Contents

۱ Good medical practice
۲ Ageing and disease
۳ Critical care and emergency medicine
۴ Poisoning
۵ Infectious disease
۶ Clinical biochemistry and metabolism
۷ Kidney and urinary tract disease
۸ Cardiovascular disease
۹ Respiratory disease
۱۰ Endocrine disease
۱۱ Diabetes mellitus
۱۲ Gastrointestinal and nutritional disorders
۱۳ Liver and biliary tract disease
۱۴ Blood disease
۱۵ Rheumatology and bone disease
۱۶ Neurological disease
۱۷ Skin disease
۱۸ Therapeutics and prescribing
۱۹ Interpreting key investigations
۲۰ Laboratory reference ranges