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A 5‐Year Research and Development Agendum for Ultrasonic Imaging Diagnostic Instrumentation
Author(s) -
Busser John H.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.594245
Subject(s) - instrumentation (computer programming) , ultrasonic sensor , presentation (obstetrics) , medical physics , medical imaging , computer science , basic research , systems engineering , medicine , engineering , library science , radiology , artificial intelligence , operating system
At most scientific meetings, the emphasis is on the results of research, not on the means by which those results were achieved. However, it was the intent of the Alliance for Engineering in Medicine and Biology in the symposium organized at the 1975 AAPM meeting to describe the instrumentation now available to researchers and practicing physicians in the field of ultrasonic diagnostic imaging. We feel that this is an appropriate and useful presentation, especially because it concerns a rapidly changing field. The papers that follow summarize the current state‐of‐the‐art of, first, single‐transducer imaging and, second, two‐dimensional transducer array technology. (A third paper, summarizing the state‐of‐the‐art of ultrasonic tissue signatures, was presented by Dennis H. Le Croissette, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91103, but is not included here because it is to be published this spring in Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization, the proceedings of a seminar held by the National Bureau of Standards 28–30 May 1975.) These papers together offer a very broad picture of where ultrasonic diagnostic imaging instrumentation stands today, and what may be expected in the near future.