The Safe Use of Ultrasound in Medical Diagnosis
The Safe Use of Ultrasound in Medical Diagnosis
by Gail ter Haar (ed.)
eBook Details:
Publisher: The British Institute of Radiology 2012
ISBN-13: 9780905749785
Number of pages: 173
License(s): This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
eBook Description:
The onus for ensuring the safety of a diagnostic ultrasound scan has shifted from the manufacturer to the person performing the scan. This means that sonographers and other practitioners need to be knowledgeable about how ultrasound interacts with tissue, and how this changes for different scanning modes and machine settings.
In the third edition of this book, world-leading experts in these areas have provided contributions addressing these topics. Written at a level intended to be accessible to readers from all backgrounds, this book covers the basic concepts important for the safe use of ultrasound and points the interested reader to the extensive literature on these topics. Margin notes emphasising the main “take home messages” are designed to make this an easy to use reference for those who need to be concerned with medical ultrasound safety.
