Diagnostic Ultrasound
Subtitle: Imaging and Blood Flow Measurements
Publisher: CRC
Published: September 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780824740962
Subjects: Technology: General Issues; Ultrasonics; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Measurement; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Ultrasonography; Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical; Laser Doppler blood flowmetry; Blood flow; Diagnosis, Ultrasonic
First sentence: The potential of ultrasound as an imaging modality was realized as early as the late 1940s when, utilizing sonar and radar technology developed during World War II, several groups of investigators around the world started exploring diagnostic capabilities of untrasound (Goldberg and Kimmelman, 1988).