Diagnostic Ultrasound: Principles and Instruments

By Frederick W. Kremkau, Andrew Allen, Frederick W. Kremkau PhD FACR FAIMBE FAIUM FASA

Book Overview

A market leader and a highly respected reference, this text explains how diagnostic ultrasound works and helps readers scan safely, properly handle artifacts, evaluate instrument performance, and prepare for registry and board examinations. It covers all essential aspects of ultrasound physics, including Doppler, artifacts, safety, quality assurance, and the newest technologies. Information is presented dynamically, with a multitude of boxes and tables and over 1,200 illustrations. Focusing on the most basic and essential equations, this book simplifies complicated mathematical concepts.Coverage of the basics of physics and ultrasound provides students with what they need to know to pass the registry exam.Learning Objectives and Key Terms begin each chapter, and subheadings have been added to break up the chapters into more accessible sections.40-page color insert includes more than 100 ultrasound scans, providing an accurate representation of what students will actually encounter in the clinical setting.
Many illustrations are larger than before, allowing better visualization of key points.Updated content includes the continuing progression of contrast agents and 3D, along with the more general aspects of transducers and instruments.Concepts have been simplified and/or expanded to aid student comprehension.Advanced Concept boxes have been added for those students interested in more complicated ultrasound physics concepts.Over 50 updated illustrations include scans, graphs, and line drawings, demonstrating the concepts of physics and ultrasound.Updated end-of-chapter questions and answers are provided for content review, including true-or-false, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and mathematical questions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721631924
• ISBN13: 9780721631929
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 1.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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Great book for sonographers! thanks

The book is a basik and almost only book to study sonography principals. it was in great condition. thanks

Great to have a clear concept of Ultrasound Physics

I found this book very understandable and easy in the sense that it describes most of the physical principles in detail and with equation which some other authors lack. Though it's not so easy to read at once or showing not only definations but also descriptions of topics which makes it more to understand instead of just memorizing the things and that is the most important thing I found in it

An introductory textbook on medical ultrasound

I actually came across Professor Kremkau's textbook accidentally, when I was looking for some not too dated text on the physics of medical ultrasound. Although it was obviously aimed at a practicing ultrasonographer preparing for some ARDMS or ARRT exam rather than a physicist trying to brush up his knowledge of medical ultrasound, it proved to be a valuable source of relatively recent information on the current state of the area.The textbook starts with an overview of the basic physics of waves and ultrasound, proceeds to the transducers and beam shape, and continues to the computer technology used for imaging. Next comes a chapter on the Doppler effect, being followed by a discussion on spectral analysis. A synthesis of these two techniques is the color Doppler imaging, and an entire chapter is devoted on the recent techniques like Color Doppler and Color Power Doppler. The textbook is concluded by a chapter discussing the artifacts, and finally a chapter on performance and safety.The style is highly readable, although the text is somewhat repetitive. One striking observation - for a physicist at least - is that professor Kremkau denies the efforts spent in inventing a readable representation of mathematical relations over the past 500 years or so, and has invented his own system. So instead of the usual "wavelength equals propagation speed divided by frequency" written in mathematical symbols, we see frames like "frequency UP, wavelength DOWN" throughout the book. Strange, and probably not particularly efficient.Each chapter is accompanied by a list of over 100 questions, and the answers are provided at the end of the book after the summary chapter. Each chapter also contains a small handy glossary. The book is lavishly illustrated and has a useful index, while the list of references is not particularly impressive.