Hedrick - Technology for Diagnostic Sonography - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 1st Edition

• A focus on essential physics and instrumentation provides the exact technical content students need to prepare for clinical sonography practice.
• Accessible, conversational writing style with real-world analogies explains physics concepts and makes this difficult topic less intimidating.
• Examples and sample problems help students make the connection between theory and practical applications.
• The latest information on equipment and scanning methods ensures an understanding of how to competently and safely use ultrasound instrumentation.
• Comprehensive discussion of image artifacts with illustrative examples helps in recognizing and eliminating artifacts.
• Detailed description of performance testing with tissue mimicking phantoms allows assessment of the proper operation of B-mode scanners.
• Practical guidance on the clinical use of mechanical index and thermal index enables practice of the ALARA principle when scanning patients.
• Full-color format shows scans as they appear in the clinical setting.
• Key terms and other student-friendly features provide a focus on important information.
• Summaries of essential principles and equations reinforce the most important concepts.
• Extensive review questions on a companion Evolve website help in assessing student progress.

1. Properties of Sound Waves

2. Interactions of Ultrasound with Tissue

3. Intensity

4. Single Element Transducers: Properties

5. Single Element Transducers: Transmission and Echo Reception

6. Static Imaging

7. Image Formation in Real-Time Ultrasound

8. Real-Time Ultrasound Transducers

9. Real-Time Ultrasound Instrumentation

10. Digital Signal and Image Processing

11. Image Quality in Real-Time Ultrasound

12. Real-Time Image Artifacts

13. Doppler Physics and Instrumentation

14. Pulsed-Wave Doppler Spectral Analysis

15. Doppler Imaging

16. M-Mode

17. Clinical Safety

18. Performance Testing