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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Reviewers
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1.  Sonography—a window into the human body
• Sonography—two principles of operation
• Doppler ultrasound—detecting and displaying motion
• Review
• Exercises
• 2.  Ultrasound: Sound we don’t hear
• Sound
• Pulsed ultrasound
• Attenuation
• Echoes
• Review
• Exercises
• 3.  Transducers: Sending and receiving
• Construction and operation
• Beams and focusing
• Arrays
• Detail resolution
• Review
• Exercises
• 4.  Instruments: Imaging anatomy with principle 1
• Two principles of system operation
• Principle 1 instruments
• Beam former
• Signal processor
• Image processor
• Display
• Contrast and temporal resolutions
• Contemporary features
• Harmonic imaging
• Panoramic imaging
• Spatial compounding
• Elastography
• Cardiac strain imaging
• Artificial intelligence
• Fusion imaging
• Output devices
• Picture archiving and communications systems
• Review
• Exercises
• 5.  Instruments: Imaging motion and flow with principle 1
• Flow
• Doppler effect
• Color-doppler displays
• Spectral-doppler displays
• Review
• Exercises
• 6.  Instruments: Imaging anatomy, motion, and flow with principle 2
• Two principles of operation
• Principle 2 instruments
• Review
• Exercises
• 7.  Artifacts: What can go wrong
• Propagation
• Attenuation
• Spectral doppler
• Color doppler
• Review
• Exercises
• 8.  Is it performing well?
• Performance measurements
• Output measurements
• Review
• Exercises
• 9.  Is it safe?
• Bioeffects
• Safety
• Review
• Exercises
• 10.  To conclude
• ARDMS SPI Examination Content Outline and JRC-DMS National Education Curriculum
• Comprehensive examination
• Glossary
• Answers to exercises
• Appendix A: Lists of symbols
• Appendix B: Compilation of equations
• Appendix C: Mathematics review
• References
• Index