Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy

For the past 50 years, ultrasound imaging has been used extensively for diagnosis of a wide range of diseases. With improvements in image quality and reduction of cost for advanced features, ultrasound imaging is playing an ever-greater role in diagnosis and image-guided interventions. The pace of innovations is increasing, and new improved applications are constantly being described. Many of these have been adopted by clinicians for routine use. This book offers an overview of ultrasound imaging for diagnosis, covering its use in image-guided interventions and ultrasound-based therapy and highlighting the latest advances. It discusses both improvements on current techniques already in clinical use as well as techniques in an advanced state of testing with great potential for adoption into routine clinical use. The scope extends from background on the state of the art in transducers and beam formers for use in 2-D, 3-D, and 4-D ultrasound as well as developments in tissue characterization, Doppler techniques, use of ultrasound contrast agents, ultrasound-guided biopsy and therapy, and use of ultrasound to deliver therapy.