Physical Principles of Medical Ultrasonics Second Edition

Ancient Hebrew and Christian tradition relates that the universe was created in six days, following which there was a day of rest. What the old chronicles never recorded was that, on the eighth day, the Creator must have dropped back into the lab to do some tidying up. Only then, coming across his rough notes for Maxwell’s and the acoustic wave equations, did the thought occur that the creation of light and sound could be logically extrapolated to x-rays and ultrasound. The practical outcome of this realisation took some time to materialise but eventually, in the twentieth century, it led to a revolution in the practice...