February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
904 pages
40h 21m
English
This chapter seeks to introduce the range and diversity of applications of ultrasonics in the field of medicine. Many tens of thousands of published articles and hundreds of books on the subject are available, including material which is cited in this chapter (e.g. [1–3]). It is the form of ultrasound that is most commonly encountered by members of the wider population, through personal or family experiencing some of its diverse range of medical applications, including in medical imaging [1], its use in physical therapy [2], or in cataract surgery, with phacoemulsification [3]. It is also a field that is seeing near-exponential growth ...
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