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Diagnostic Ultrasound. By M. Hussey, pp. 254, 1975 (London, Blackie), £10·50.

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This book, which has been written for clinical specialists and recently-graduated scientists, represents an attempt to collect and synthesize the vast literature on the interaction of ultrasound with biological tissue and its components. After a brief introductory chapter the author provides two basic chapters: the first is on the physical principles of ultrasound and the second is a 24-page summary of the physical structure of matter, thermodynamics, chemical dynamics, cell structure and function and tissue types. The range of physics presented is greater than is usually found in texts on medical ultrasonics, but its relevance to the question under discussion is not always clearly shown.