Quality Control of Real-time Doppler Ultrasound Equipment
Hassan, Ahmed / Yassin, Mamdouh
Medical uses of ultrasound came about shortly after the close of World War II, derived from underwater sonar research. Initial clinical applications monitored changes in the propagation of pulses through the brain to detect intacerebral hematoma and brain tumors based on the displacement of the midline. Ultrasound rapidly progressed through the 1960s from simple "A-mode" scans to "B-mode" application and compound "B-mode" images using analog e...