You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
PostScript
Book review
Ophthalmic Ultrasonography, first edition, Arun D Singh and Brandy C Hayden
  1. Eric Sooyong Ahn
  1. Correspondence to Eric Sooyong Ahn, Cole Eye Institute (i-13), Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; ahne{at}ccf.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-302113

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    The development of ultrasonography was originally conceived as a method that would allow the detection of submerged submarines during World War I. It was not until the late 1940s that Karl Dussik applied this technology to non-invasively image the brain for tumours. Technological achievement would eventually lead to the development of A and B mode ultrasound, followed by …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.