Ultrasonic Diagnostics in Medicine

Leonid A. Bulavin, Dr of Phys.-Math. Sci. (1989) is Professor of Physics at Kiyv National Shevchenko University, Correspondence Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Yury F. Zabashta, Dr of Phys.-Math. Sci. (1992) is Professor of Physics at Kiyv National Shevchenko University. Both authors have published on the interaction of waves with matter.

• INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. MODEL 1.1. Biological Tissue as a Homogeneous Continuum 1.2. Types of Biological Continua 1.3. Organism as a Heterogeneous Continuum 1.4. Equations of Motion of Biological Continua 1.5. Physical Nature of Ultrasonic Diagnostics Chapter 2. EMISSION 2.1. Unbounded Plane Emitter 2.2. Point Emitter (Monopole) 2.3. Bounded Plane Emitter 2.4. Point Emitter (Dipole) 2.5. Generation of Acoustic Oscillations Chapter 3. SCATTERING 3.1. Nature of a Scattered Wave 3.2. Immobile Large-Scale Inhomogeneities 3.3. Immobile Large-Scale Inhomogeneities with Boundary Layer 3.4. Immobile Small-Scale Inhomogeneities 3.5. Immobile Mesoscale Inhomogeneities 3.6. Mobile Inhomogeneities 3.7. Systems of Scatterers Chapter 4. VISUALIZATION 4.1. What Is Visualization? 4.2. Modes of Visualization 4.3. Defects of Acoustic Images AFTERWORD

Very didactically organized, with ample attention for mathematical detail, which nowhere becomes so complicated that it obscures the physics behind it [...] The first three chapter give a thorough but accessible description of the physics of ultrasonic pulse-echo imaging, while the fourth discusses the possible methods to apply these data for 2D, 3D or time-dependent imagery [...] This book is a useful addition to the ultrasonic imaging literature, stepping into the - rather large - gap between more engineering-oriented texts and theoretical works.G. van Soest, PhD; Biomedical Engineering, Thorax center, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands