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US Physics, Basic Principles, and Clinical Application

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Intraoperative Ultrasound (IOUS) in Neurosurgery

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Ultrasonography is an imaging method which is widely used in medicine and is based on the processing of the echo signal generated by the interaction between the matter and an ultrasound beam.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Ospedale Valduce, Via Dante Alighieri 11, Como, 22100, Italy

    Alberto Martegani MD & Luca Aiani

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy

    Luca Mattei

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  1. Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Prada

  2. UO Radiologia Oncologica, Humanitas Univ. and Research Hospital UO Radiologia Oncologica, Busto Arsizio, Italy

    Luigi Solbiati

  3. UO Radiologia, Ospedale Valduce, Como, Como, Italy

    Alberto Martegani

  4. Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Fondazione IRCCS, Milano, Italy

    Francesco DiMeco

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Martegani, A., Mattei, L., Aiani, L. (2016). US Physics, Basic Principles, and Clinical Application. In: Prada, F., Solbiati, L., Martegani, A., DiMeco, F. (eds) Intraoperative Ultrasound (IOUS) in Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25268-1_2

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