Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques in Vascular Disease

Abstract

Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques in Vascular Disease is the third edition of a book that has surveyed and kept pace with the rapidly growing field of noninvasive vascular diagnosis. The first edition of the book appeared in 1978 at the time of the initial widespread clinical application of ultrasound and plethysmography to noninvasive vascular diagnosis. Since that time, there has been an explosive growth and expansion of the field, with the development of new techniques, the establishment of noninvasive diagnosis laboratories in most hospitals, and the acceptance of noninvasive vascular diagnosis in standard clinical practice. The second edition appeared in 1982, and now, only three years later, the third edition has arrived. This third edition contains 87 chapters contributed by 75 authors and has 50 new chapters not present in the second edition. It is broad in scope and covers the fundamentals of measurement and instrumentation, the clinical application of established