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New techniques and instrumentation in ultrasonography
Ultrasound in Med. & Biol. Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 309-310, 1983 Printed in Great Britain.
0301-5629/831030309-02503.0010 Pergamon Press Ltd.
BOOK REVIEWS NEW TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION IN U L T R A S O N O G R A P H Y Volume 5 in the CLINICS IN DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND series. Edited by P. N. T. Wells and M. C. Ziskin. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1980, 421 pp, 151 illustrations, £14.50.
in establishing a clinical ultrasound facility, and quality assurance and routine preventive maintenance, seem out of place as the opening chapters and I would have preferred to see them grouped with the chapter on tissue-equivalent materials and phantoms towards the end of the book. This book will interest those with a technical bias who are already familiar with the techniques of diagnostic ultrasound and wish t Ogain both an overview of developments and further insight into instrumentation and possible applicationsnit would not be a suitable purchase for the novice or the non-technical clinician.
The aim of the book is to present the clinician with most of the latest developments in Ultrasonic Instrumentation and to discuss techniques still at the research stage but which may develop into equipment suitable for routine application. There are chapters discussing developments in signal processing, transducers, real time scanning, large waterbath ultrasonic scanners, small-field high resolution imaging, Doppler ultrasound and tissue characterisation. These chapters form the core of the discussion on current, clinically available equipment and techniques with further chapters on more experimental work including orthographic transmission imaging, ultrasonic computerised tomography, and somewhat out of place as the main bias of the book is towards patient imaging techniques and methods, an excellent chapter on the acoustic microscope. Other chapters such as: instrumentation considerations
ANGUS J. HALL
Department of Medical Physics St. James Hospital Leeds, England
U L T R A S O U N D IN E M E R G E N C Y M E D I C I N E Volume 9 in the Clinics in Diagnostic Ultrasound series. K. J. W. Taylor and G. N. Viscomi. Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1981, 208 pages, numerous half tones, £15.
trated chapter on sonography in the neonatal brain calls attention to the great strides that have been made in this new application. Within the abdominal section the role of ultrasound in right upper quadrant pain of possible biliary origin is especially well covered and good chapters deal with abdominal abscesses and cases referred for aortic aneurysm. Obstetrics is also covered and there is a good section on urgent gynaecological problems, especially dealing with the integrative role of ultrasound and serum beta HCG estimations in the difficult problem of ectopic gestation. Similarly in the chapter on the testes, the combined use of dynamic scintigraphy and ultrasound for the discrimination of torsion from orchitis is stressed. All in all a worthy addition to this excellent series
Clinics in Diagnostic Ultrasound has established a preeminent role as a topical, clinically relevant series; mandatory reading for everyone with an interest in sonography. This volume is no exception with the limited proviso that the term "emergenCy" receives a somewhat loose interpretation. The contributions of 19 eminent workers are carefully edited and generously illustrated. The occasional half tone has reproduced badly but on the whole the reproductions are of good quality and they make useful points. In addition a series of exemplary case studies are appended; many will find these useful as a means of consolidating what they have learned from the main text. The chapters are comprehensive and include alongside the expected abdominal coverage, sections on the role of ultrasound in urgent cardiac and ophthalmic problems. A beautifully illus309
0301-5629/831030309-02503.0010 Pergamon Press Ltd.
BOOK REVIEWS NEW TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION IN U L T R A S O N O G R A P H Y Volume 5 in the CLINICS IN DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND series. Edited by P. N. T. Wells and M. C. Ziskin. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1980, 421 pp, 151 illustrations, £14.50.
in establishing a clinical ultrasound facility, and quality assurance and routine preventive maintenance, seem out of place as the opening chapters and I would have preferred to see them grouped with the chapter on tissue-equivalent materials and phantoms towards the end of the book. This book will interest those with a technical bias who are already familiar with the techniques of diagnostic ultrasound and wish t Ogain both an overview of developments and further insight into instrumentation and possible applicationsnit would not be a suitable purchase for the novice or the non-technical clinician.
The aim of the book is to present the clinician with most of the latest developments in Ultrasonic Instrumentation and to discuss techniques still at the research stage but which may develop into equipment suitable for routine application. There are chapters discussing developments in signal processing, transducers, real time scanning, large waterbath ultrasonic scanners, small-field high resolution imaging, Doppler ultrasound and tissue characterisation. These chapters form the core of the discussion on current, clinically available equipment and techniques with further chapters on more experimental work including orthographic transmission imaging, ultrasonic computerised tomography, and somewhat out of place as the main bias of the book is towards patient imaging techniques and methods, an excellent chapter on the acoustic microscope. Other chapters such as: instrumentation considerations
ANGUS J. HALL
Department of Medical Physics St. James Hospital Leeds, England
U L T R A S O U N D IN E M E R G E N C Y M E D I C I N E Volume 9 in the Clinics in Diagnostic Ultrasound series. K. J. W. Taylor and G. N. Viscomi. Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1981, 208 pages, numerous half tones, £15.
trated chapter on sonography in the neonatal brain calls attention to the great strides that have been made in this new application. Within the abdominal section the role of ultrasound in right upper quadrant pain of possible biliary origin is especially well covered and good chapters deal with abdominal abscesses and cases referred for aortic aneurysm. Obstetrics is also covered and there is a good section on urgent gynaecological problems, especially dealing with the integrative role of ultrasound and serum beta HCG estimations in the difficult problem of ectopic gestation. Similarly in the chapter on the testes, the combined use of dynamic scintigraphy and ultrasound for the discrimination of torsion from orchitis is stressed. All in all a worthy addition to this excellent series
Clinics in Diagnostic Ultrasound has established a preeminent role as a topical, clinically relevant series; mandatory reading for everyone with an interest in sonography. This volume is no exception with the limited proviso that the term "emergenCy" receives a somewhat loose interpretation. The contributions of 19 eminent workers are carefully edited and generously illustrated. The occasional half tone has reproduced badly but on the whole the reproductions are of good quality and they make useful points. In addition a series of exemplary case studies are appended; many will find these useful as a means of consolidating what they have learned from the main text. The chapters are comprehensive and include alongside the expected abdominal coverage, sections on the role of ultrasound in urgent cardiac and ophthalmic problems. A beautifully illus309