Learning Ultrasound Imaging

✍ Scribed by Carlos Nicolau, Pedro Seguí, Jose Luís del Cura, Blanca Paño (auth.), Jose Luís del Cura, Pedro Seguí, Carlos Nicolau (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Learning Imaging
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a practical approach to the world of diagnostic ultrasound. It has been structured in a reader-friendly, case-based format that makes it easy and enjoyable to learn the basics of the applications and interpretation of ultrasound. Each case includes illustrations, descriptions of the imaging findings, and technical details and serves to identify the essential imaging features of the pathology under consideration, thus assisting the reader in the diagnosis of similar cases. The book is divided into 17 short chapters that review the most important areas of ultrasound application and also document the latest advances in the use of contrast and interventional ultrasound. The authors treat every topic from a “how to do it” perspective with the aim of imparting their wide experience in use of the technique. This book forms part of the Learning Imaging series for medical students, residents, less experienced radiologists, and other medical staff.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Abdominal Ultrasound....Pages 1-49
Woman’s Imaging....Pages 51-88
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound....Pages 89-108
Small Parts....Pages 109-157
Thorax....Pages 159-168
Pediatrics....Pages 169-186
Vascular....Pages 187-212
Contrast Ultrasound....Pages 213-226
Interventional Ultrasound....Pages 227-244

✦ Subjects

Ultrasound; Diagnostic Radiology; Imaging / Radiology; Interventional Radiology