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Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out

After the first edition was published in 2004, a second edition replaced it in 2014. Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out provides a unified description of the physical principles of ultrasound imaging, signal processing, systems and measurements. This comprehensive reference is a core resource for both graduate students and engineers in medical ultrasound research and design. With continuing rapid technological development of ultrasound in medical diagnosis, it is a critical subject for biomedical engineers, clinical and healthcare engineers and practitioners, medical physicists, and related professionals in the fields of signal and image processing.

The book contains 17 new and updated chapters covering the fundamentals and latest advances in the area, and includes four appendices, 450 figures (60 available in color on the companion website), and almost 1,500 references. In addition to the continual influx of readers entering the field of ultrasound worldwide who need the broad grounding in the core technologies of ultrasound, this book provides those already working in these areas with clear and comprehensive expositions of these key new topics as well as introductions to state-of-the-art innovations in this field.  This book has become a classic reference and  textbook cited over 2800 times (as of October 2025).

More information about the book in hardcover and e-book editions can be found on the Elsevier website:    https://shop.elsevier.com/books/diagnostic-ultrasound-imaging-inside-out/szabo/978-0-12-396487-8

You can browse the book on https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123964878/diagnostic-ultrasound-imaging-inside-out

Companion materials can be found at: https://booksite.elsevier.com/9780123964878/

These include MATLAB programs, since it is  a MATLAB  book.  The printed book has grey scale figures but a downloadable pdf file containing all the color figures can be printed as a booklet which, when folded, can be inserted in the  book.

A list of errata is in the attached pdf.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction;
Overview and central block diagram;
Acoustic wave propagation;
Attenuation;
Transducers;
Beamforming;
Array beamforming;
Wave scattering  and imaging in tissue;
Scattering from tissue and tissue characterization;
Imaging systems and applications;
Doppler modes;
Nonlinear acoustics and imaging;
Ultrasonic exposimetry and acoustic measurements;
Ultrasound contrast agents;
Ultrasound-induced bioeffects;
Elastography;
Therapeutic ultrasound

Essentials of Ultrasound Imaging by Thomas L. Szabo and Peter Kaczkowski

This book (published on 11/28/2023) provides introduction to, and in-depth exploration of, key physical processes, including wave propagation and interaction with physical media, piezoelectric transducers, arrays, and beam formation, and concludes with a survey of advanced topics in ultrasound. Uniquely, principles are revealed by examples from software simulation programs designed to demonstrate ultrasound concepts, and image and signal processing. There are also numerous examples from a Verasonics® Vantage Research Ultrasound System to provide unparalleled insight into each step of ultrasound image creation, including signal processing, transducer operation, different types of beamforming, and image formation. The content is organized around a central functional block diagram which is, in turn, related to physical processes and processing involved in clinical and research imaging systems. With a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of physics and methods of ultrasound imaging, readers can better appreciate the introduction of advanced topics, as well as understand the fastest growing applications of ultrasound.

More information about the book in paperback with color illustrations and e-book editions can be found on the Elsevier website:https://shop.elsevier.com/books/essentials-of-ultrasound-imaging/szabo/978-0-323-95371-9

 KEY FEATURES

  • Introduces and explains wave propagation, piezoelectric transducers, beam focusing, Doppler imaging of fluid flow, types of ultrasound systems, and real-time image formation and resolution.

  • Follows the passage of pulse-echo waveforms to image formation through changes made by wave propagation, transducers, array beam formation, absorption, and system processing.

     Illustrates concepts through examples from unique physics, processing, and imaging simulators, as well as experimental data and waveforms from an ultrasound research system.

COMPANION PRODUCTS

  1. Essentials of Ultrasound Imaging Simulators (EoUSI) – a software product in executable form designed to demonstrate concepts from the book. Simulators are accessed via a graphical user interface (GUI) with minimal math background required. The simulators are developed as MATLAB® executable programs with interactive Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and are compiled for either Windows or macOS computers.  Knowledge of MATLAB scientific programming language is not required nor is a MATLAB license needed to run the EoUSI Simulators. Programs run in near real time on computers of current vintage. The EoUSI Simulators can be obtained for free from the Verasonics website and have a one-year license, and can be renewed on an annual basis. See https://verasonics.com/essentials-simulators-2/

  2.  Essentials of Ultrasound Imaging Curriculum - with lecture and lab slides, simulators, two phantoms, instructor guides and hands-on experiments using a Vantage® Research Ultrasound System. Companion products are available from Verasonics Inc., Kirkland, WA, USA.  See https://verasonics.com/essentials-of-ultrasound-imaging-course/