Publisher's Synopsis
This book treats the phenomena of ultrasound, in the context of medical and biological applications, in a manner that is systematically founded on fundamental physical principles and concepts. It treats the subject in terms of wave principles, introducing the main concepts of wave acoustics early in the text. This leads naturally to practical accounts, first of the generation and nature of acoustic fields and then of their formal description and measurement. The physical behaviour of real tissues, particularly in attenuating and scattering ultrasound, is then described.;The second section of the book reviews the principles and practice of the wide variety of diagnostic and investigative applications of ultrasound that are now becoming available in medicine and biology, and includes a separate chapter on the processes of visual perception that underlie medical imaging. Finally, accounts are given of the biophysics of ultrasound, its practical applications to therapeutic and surgical objectives, and its implications in questions of hazards to both patient and operator.
