Dictionary of Ultrasound

With more than 850 entries, this reference gives interdisciplinary answers to clinical and technical questions in this topical area. It contains terms ranging from A-scan to stress echocardiography. The keywords have been assembled from all fields of application of ultrasound.

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The use of ultrasound for diagnostics and treatment has become the principal imaging procedure in most clinical fields and has displaced many conventional examination methods. With more than 850 entries, the Dictionary gives expert interdisciplinary answers to all-important clinical and technical questions in this topic area. The Dictionary contains terms ranging from A-scan to mitral insufficiency and stress echocardiography, 3-D reconstruction, Doppler shift, Fourier analysis and gray scale, from hepatic metastases through gallbladder hydrops to lymph nodes, from pregnancy to uterine myomatosis, from muscles to Achilles tendon and from hydrocele to renal calculus - to give just a few examples. The keywords have