Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging and Blood Flow Measurements, Second Edition

Introduction

History

Role of ultrasound in medical imaging

Purpose of the book

References and further reading materials

Stress and strain relationship

Acoustic wave equation

Characteristic impedance

Intensity

Acoustic radiation force

Reflection and refraction

Attenuation, absorption, and scattering

Nonlinearity parameter B/A

Doppler effect

References and further reading materials

Piezoelectric effect

Piezoelectric constitutive equation

Ultrasonic transducers

Characterization of piezoelectric materials

Transducer beam characteristics

Arrays

Characterization of transducer/array performance

References and further reading materials

A- (amplitude) mode and B- (brightness) mode imaging

M-mode and C-mode

Ultrasound computed tomography (CT)

Coded excitation imaging

Compound imaging

Synthetic aperture imaging

New developments

References and further reading materials

Nondirectional CW flowmeters

Directional doppler flowmeters

Pulsed_goppler flowmeters

Clinicarapplications and doppler indices

Potential problems ingopj;ler measurements

Tissue4}oppler and mUItigateqoppler

References and further reading materials

Color doppler flow imaging

Color oppler power imaging

Time: fomain flow estimation

Elasticity imaging

Acoustic radiation force imaging (ARFI)

Vibro-acoustography

Supersonic shear wave imaging (SSWI)

B-Flow imaging

References and further reading materials

Contrast agents

Nonlinear interactions between ultrasound and bubbles

Modified rayleigl], lesset equation for encapsulated gas bubbles

Solutions tojayleig lesset equation

Harmonic imaging

Native tissue harmonic imaging

Zrnaging

Clinical applications of contrast agents and harmonic imaging

References and further reading materials

Intracavity imaging

Intravascular imaging

High-frequency imaging

Acoustic microscopes

References and further reading materials

Parallel processing

Multidimensional arrays

3D/imaging

Recent developments

References and further reading materials

Acoustic phenomena at high-intensity levels

Ultrasound bioeffects

References and further reading materials

Velocity

Attenuation

Scattering

References and further reading materials

Biography

K. Kirk Shung obtained a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan in 1968; a M.S. in electrical engineering from University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1970; and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Washington, Seattle, in 1975. In 2002 he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles as a professor and became a dean’s professor in 2013. He has published over 500 papers and book chapters, is the author of Diagnostic Ultrasound: Imaging and Blood Flow Measurements published by CRC press in 2005, and co-editor of Ultrasonic Scattering by Biological Tissues published by CRC Press in 1993.

"... provides excellent coverage in many areas of the physics and engineering of diagnostic ultrasound imaging, but also misses some key concepts that would be useful to new ultrasound physicists and engineers. Although designed as a biomedical engineering textbook on ultrasound imaging, it is useful as a handbook for quick reference to many basic concepts, bioeffects and acoustic measurement techniques for diagnostic ultrasound imaging and applications."
—Jeremy J. Dahl, Stanford, California, USA, from Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Volume 41, Number 12, 2015