Ultrasonic medical imaging provides a low cost and non-invasive tool to look inside the human body. It is one of the most popular imaging tools, second only to conventional X-ray imaging in the number of clinical procedures performed. It has various advantages over conventional X-ray, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, because it does not utilise harmful electromagnetic radiation, is non-invasive, easy to perform, cost effective, capable of providing images in real time, and provides good soft tissue differentiation [1].
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Wersing, W., Lerch, R. (2008). Ultrasonic Imaging. In: Piezoelectricity. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 114. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68683-5_8
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