Breast Ultrasound
A Thomas Stavros
The imaging information radiologists and sonographers have requested is here-everything you need to properly perform and accurately interpret breast ultrasound exams with confidence!
Step-by-step guidance takes you through each phase-from equipment requirements, technique, and relevant anatomy, to specific applications. And the book's expert descriptions help you understand targeted and non-targeted indiciations, distinguish beningn from maligninant nodules, assess a wide variety of commonly encountered lesions, image the male breast, evaluate and stage breast cancer patients, and much more! |
Breast Ultrasound How, Why and When
Churchill
Livingstone
Edited by Anne-Marie Dixon
Key Features of this book:
*Step-by-step guide to performing, interpreting and reporting breast ultrasound examinations
*Extensive coverage of the underlying principles and practice of breast ultrasound
Holistic chapter on ultrasound of the male breast
Application-specific physics and equipment chapters
Experienced editor contributing team with current experience in clinical practice and educational delivery. |
Clinical Doppler Ultrasound
Second Edition
Paul L. Allan/ Paul A. Dubbins
Myron A. Pozniak/ W. Norman McDicken
Clinical Doppler Ultrasound provides a practical guide to the indications, techniques and applications of routine Doppler examinations performed in clinical practice. It promotes awareness of techniques that can be employed and how these can be utilised most efficiently, and the technical factors that affect the examinations. Technical aspects are presented in straightforward terms and always in the context of the diagnostic situation. Problems and pitfalls of the diagnosis are highlighted. It includes normal and abnormal appearances of common systems and conditions. |
Clinical Guide to Ultrasonography
Charlotte Heningsen
Presenting ultrasound pathology from a clinical perspective, this unique resource discusses various pathologies that may be related to a patient?s symptoms and features illustrations with ultrasound scans that demonstrate each pathology. Organized into four major sections ? abdomen, obstetrics, gynecology, and superficial structures ? each symptom is presented in its own chapter along with key terms, an introductory paragraph, a clinical scenario, discussions of pathologies, illustrations, and patient scenarios. |
Diagnostic Breast Imaging
Sylvia Heywang-Koebrunner MD, Ingrid
Schreer MD, and D. David Dershaw MD
2001, 2nd Edition, 450pp, 700 illustrations,
hardcover
Comprehensive and systematic, this important new edition covers all imaging modalities for diagnosing breast disorders. You will find expert guidelines on the role of mammography, high-resolution ultrasound, MRI and percutaneous biopsy to achieve your diagnostic goals, and benefit from a practical review of the physics, histology, pathology, and quality control needed by those who perform breast imaging procedures. |
Diagnostic Ultrasound: Principles
and Instruments
Frederick W. Kremkau, PhD
6th Edition, 428 pages
This book clearly explains how to properly handle artifacts, scan safely, and evaluate instrument performance, while also helping students prepare for registry and board examinations in diagnostic ultrasound. Information is presented in a dynamic, visual format, with boxes, tables, and over 1,000 illustrations. This edition contains new and expanded material on contrast agents, harmonic imaging, coded excitation, panoramic imaging, spatial compounding, 3-D imaging, and electronic storage and communication of images external to the diagnostic instruments. Reorganized, rewritten material reflects the digital beam-forming, signal-processing, and image-processing functions of modern instruments.
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Essentials of Ultrasound Physics
James A. Zagzebski
220 pages, 369 illustrations
Essentials of Ultrasound Physics is about ultrasound technlogy and ultrasound instrumentation. This textbook is intended for students, sonographers, and technologists who need a thorough understanding of physics and instrumentation in this field. The book starts with the basics, covering all topics usually found in beginning courses and board exams. There are multiple choice questions and problems at the end of each chapter to help you evaluate your level of understanding. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms is also found in the appendix. |
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Anatomy and Technique
John O Neill
2008
This book tackles the fundamentals of ultrasound, from physics, aritifact recognition, and essential anatomy to current issues, such as the growing interest in the ultrasound of peripheral nervous system. Hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and anatomical images complement concise, easy to read text and handy tables.
The accompanying two-hour DVD depicts examination of the major joints of the upper and lower limbs by expert chapter authors. Tranducer position and the corresponding ultrasound image are presented side by side during each joint examination. |
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
2008
Jon A Jacobson
What this book has to offer
Become familiar with noral sonographic anatomy for every musculoskeletal region.
See step by step how to perform musculoskeletal ultrasound and interpret the resultant findings.
Know what key distinguishing characteristics you should look for in order to clearly differentiate various common diseases from one another.
Master essential concepts, techniques, and skills visually with more than 400 high-quality images.
Focus on key anatomy concepts, diseases and controversies you need to know to overcome the challenges you're most likely to encounter.
Find and apply information quickly thanks to concise, outline format, with many at a glance lists and tables. |
Peripheral Vascular Sonography
Joseph F. Polak
Now in its revised, updated Second Edition, this volume is a thorough, practical guide to the use of Doppler sonography in evaluating peripheral vascular disease. Dr. Polak describes techniques for optimizing image acquisition and provides the clinical and pathophysiologic information necessary for accurate image interpretation. This edition features over 600 new illustrations, including 197 full-color images throughout the book.
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Review for the Ultrasonography Exam
Carol A. Krebs/ Charles S. Odwin/
Arthur C. Fleischer
The most current, comprehensive question-and-answer review of diagnostic medical sonography for national certification examination preparation. This popular review covers all facets of ultrasound, including basic physics, vascular sonography, ob/gyn, transvaginal, transrectal, adult and pediatric echocardiography, and neurosonography. |
Step by Step Breast Ultrasound
Rahul Sachdev
Manjula Handa Virmani
Ashok Khurana
This book has been designed as a comprehensive work for all health care professionals dealing with breast imaging. It has been divided into four sections to facilitate reading and review. Section 1 is a brief review introduction to Breast Ultrasound; Section 2 deals with technical aspects; Section 3 contains chapters on benign and malignant lesions; finally Section 4 deals with breast implants. This book shows some of the pits we have fallen into in the last five years, with hints on trying to stay out of them. |
Teaching Manual of
Color Duplex Sonography
Mathias Hofer/ G. Antoch
This interdisciplinary workbook will help students, interns, and physicians gain a fundamental grasp of color duplex ultrasound scanning. It reviews normal findings, important pathologic conditions, scanning techniques, and the relative importance of color duplex scanning. |
Ultrasound of the Musculoskeletal System
S. Bianchi
C. Martinoli
2007
This book is a comprehensive reference and practical guide on the technology and application of ultrasound to the musculoskeletal system. It is organized into two main sections. The first is devoted to general aspects, while the second provides a systematic overview of the applications of musculoskeletal ultrasound in different areas of the body. Each chapter of the second section provides an introduction on clinical anatomy and the essentials of clinical history and physical examination. Thereafter, performance of the ultrasound study is explained and the normal and pathological anatomy is reviewed. To assist in understanding, the ultrasound scans are correlated with drawings, photographs, images obtained using other modalities, and anatomic specimens. There is a generous complement of high-quality illustrations based on high-end equipment. This book contains a wealth of invaluable information.
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Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation
Fourth Edition
Hedrick
Hykes
Starchman
Comprehensive coverage thoroughly addresses all physics topics relevant to ultrasound so readers can prepare for the Registry exam with confidence.
Extensive examples and sample problems clarify formulas as they are presented, ensuring readers make the connection between theory and practical applications.
Accessible, conversational writing style employs real-world analogies to explain physics concepts.
Key terms and review questions in each chapter help readers focus on important information and assess their comprehension.
Includes updated scanning principles, multi-element array transducers, 1.5D and 2D transducers, beam former, broadband, tissue harmonic imaging, extended field of view, spatial compounding, frequency compounding, coded excitation, 3D ultrasound, 4D ultrasound, and new transducer technology.
New clinical examples of Doppler ultrasound have been incorporated in the appropriate instrumentation sections.
Biological effects and clinical safety have been updated and divided into separate chapters.
A survey of general-purpose ultrasound phantoms addresses the role of phantoms in quality control testing, demonstrated through multiple examples.
Shorter, more reader-friendly chapters break down difficult material into learnable segments.
Mock registry exams - one exam in the book and one on the Evolve site - provide ample opportunities for practice and preparation for the ARDMS physics exam.
Hundreds of new and updated images and illustrations visually show the principles and properties of ultrasound, including more sonograms to illustrate image artifacts.
Information on real-time ultrasound has been expanded, with separate chapters on image formation, transducers, instrumentation, and image processing. |
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