… Ultrasound is now being used in doctors' offices, emergency … with little access to medical
imaging technology. Miniaturization of … the state of the art in ultrasound systems and some of the …

… The application of ultrasound to medical imaging dates back more than 50 years. Early …
Ultrasound has since then evolved to be one of the major medical imaging systems and is used …

… This section introduces basic ultrasound concepts to help you understand how ultrasound
systems function and to … This is, by no means, an exhaustive survey of ultrasound systems. …

… systems for application in dozens of medical procedures. This paper reviews the robotic
ultrasound systems that … their potential impact on modern medicine. The RUS projects reviewed …

… the applica tion of ultrasound to medical diagnosis there has … would represent a revolution
in medical diagnostics. For this … of ultra sound, the systems that rely on a contin uous wave of …

… Medical applications of ultrasound range from therapy, foetal monitoring, diagnostic …
Ever since the earliest developments of medical ultrasound there has been an interest in the …

… the imaging system to decode it. Unlike X-rays, but by analogy with light, ultrasound experiences
… indices, and it is possible to build focusing systems. However, as we shall see later, the …

… colour Doppler systems compare trains of ultrasound pulses looking for changes. The
sudden disappearance of a reflector registers as a dramatic loss of correlation between pulses …

… The use of ultrasound for diagnostic purposes in medicine has progressed dramatically … ,
ultrasound is the fastest growing sector of the medical imaging market. Therapeutic ultrasound, …

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