Acoustic and sound engineering Books

Book SynopsisThe objective of Computational Aeroacoustics is not simply to develop computational methods but to use these methods to solve aeroacoustics problems and perform numerical simulation of aeroacoustic phenomena. This is both a textbook with exercises for graduate students and a reference with code for researchers in CAA.Trade Review'… a good textbook for graduate students and a reference book for researchers in CAA. Exercises are included and are designed to be an integral part of the chapter content. In addition, sample computer programs are included …' Zentralblatt MATH'… highly recommended … The experience of the author is present throughout the book, and should help newcomers … This book should form part of the reference collection of any worker in advanced CFD methods.' Michael J. Carley, Mathematical ReviewsTable of Contents1. Finite difference equations; 2. Spatial discretization in wave number space; 3. Time discretization; 4. Finite difference scheme as dispersive waves; 5. Finite difference solution of the Euler equations; 6. Radiation, outflow, and wall boundary conditions; 7. The short wave component of finite difference schemes; 8. Nonlinear acoustic waves and shocks; 9. Advanced numerical boundary treatments; 10. Time domain impedance boundary condition; 11. Extrapolation and interpolation; 12. Multi-scales problems; 13. Complex geometry; 14. Continuation of a near field acoustic solution to the far field; 15. CAA code design and applications.

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Book SynopsisLinear acoustics was thought to be fully encapsulated in physics texts of the 1950s, but this view has been changed by developments in physics during the last four decades. There is a significant new amount of theory that can be used to address problems in linear acoustics and vibration, but only a small amount of reported work does so. This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between theoreticians and practitioners, as well as the gap between quantum and acoustic. Tutorial chapters provide introductions to each of the major aspects of the physical theory and are written using the appropriate terminology of the acoustical community. The book will act as a quick-start guide to the new methods while providing a wide-ranging introduction to the physical concepts.Table of Contents1. Semiclassical trace formula M. C. M. Wright; 2. Wave chaos O. Legrand and F. Mortessagne; 3. Random matrix theory R. L. Weaver; 4. Gaussian random wave fields M. R. Dennis; 5. Short periodic orbit theory E. G. Vergini and G. G. Carlo; 6. Chaotic wave scattering J. P. Keating and M. Novaes; 7. Elastic plate vibrations N. Søndergaard; 8. Mesoscopics in acoustics R. L. Weaver; 9. Diagrammatic methods J. A. Turner and G. Ghoshal; 10. Time-reversed waves M. Fink; 11. Ocean acoustics S. Tomsovic and M. Brown; 12. Mesoscopic seismic waves M. Campillo and L. Margerin; 13. Random matrices in structural acoustics C. Soize; 14. Built-up engineering systems R. S. Langley.

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Book SynopsisThis Element provides a demonstration of how evolving external cues, and internal cognitive scripts interact with technology and social conventions in the recording studio to impact a popular music musician's performance and, in effect, the creation of a new Work.Table of Contents1. Repetition in performance; 2. The recording studio as a construction site; 3. The performer as a reflective practitioner; 4. That's perfect! Let's do it again; 5. Organisation can make it worth the risk; 6. Seeking out the slippery hills.

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Book SynopsisThis Element provides a demonstration of how evolving external cues, and internal cognitive scripts interact with technology and social conventions in the recording studio to impact a popular music musician's performance and, in effect, the creation of a new Work.Table of Contents1. Repetition in performance; 2. The recording studio as a construction site; 3. The performer as a reflective practitioner; 4. That's perfect! Let's do it again; 5. Organisation can make it worth the risk; 6. Seeking out the slippery hills.

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Book SynopsisThe field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently interdisciplinary and is undertaken both by those who specialize in sound and by others who wish to include sound as an intrinsic and indispensable element in their research. This is the first resource to provide a wide ranging, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ways in which researchers use a broad range of methodologies in order to pursue their sonic investigations. It brings together 49 specially commissioned chapters that ask a wide range of questions including; how can sound be used in current academic disciplines? Is sound as a methodological tool indispensable for Sound Studies and what can sound artists contribute to the discourse on methodology in Sound Studies? The editors also present 3 original chaptersTrade ReviewThe juxtaposition of such a large number of different and even contradictory approaches allows us to compose, by "diffraction", a multifaceted and complex picture that teaches us a lot about the interrelationships between listening regimes and discursive regimes as well as about the inevitable and at the same time fruitful precariousness of any sound methodology. * Drammaturgia *Sound studies is a disruptor. Sound cuts across the arts, sciences, engineering, history and the academy, reconfiguring things as it goes along. Its only rule is that it’s about the sound. This means its methods are as varied as can be and are often pitched as anti-methods. This vast methodological smorgasbord is like a sound walk. You hear echoes of standard methodologies from ethnomusicology, sound art and cultural and science studies and places like the exhibition, the archive, the studio and the field and you learn about new methods finely tuned to sound. The book and the editorial vignettes, set in a fascinating dialogical form because of the pandemic, are always smart and reflective. If you want to learn to think systematically about how sound is studied this is the place to begin your journey. * Trevor Pinch, pioneer in sound studies and Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, USA *From music to geography, historical debate to epistemological arguments, the study of sound finds footing within a compelling range of academic and artistic contexts. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies offers a comprehensive, situated and deeply enriching view onto such diversity, capturing how researchers and practitioners approach sound as a topic and material. Such a compendium affords greater understanding of sound as the basis for a radical transdisciplinarity. * Brandon LaBelle, Professor, Art Academy, University of Bergen, Norway, and author of Acoustic Justice (Bloomsbury, 2021) *[The book], because of its vast scope -- I have only scratched the surface of its richness in this review -- may be very helpful in deciding if, and if so when, sonic method may be best suited to act as the "what" in research projects that in some way involve sound. * Journal of Sonic Studies *Table of ContentsContributors Introduction (Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen) Section One: Disciplines, Methodologies, Epistemologies. 1. Introduction to Section 1: Sonic Forms and the Temporalities of Silence (Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK) 2. Sonic Methodologies in Anthropology (Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, University of Victoria, Canada) 3. Sonic Methodologies by Way of Deconstruction (Naomi Waltham-Smith, University of Warwick, UK) 4. Nature’s Music: Sonic Methodologies in the Study of Environmental Biology (Wouter Halfwerk, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 5. Hearing With: Researching the Histories of Sonic Encounter (James G. Mansell, University of Nottingham, UK) 6. Sonic Methodologies in Urban Studies (Christabel Stirling, University of Oxford, UK) 7. Sound and Pedagogy: Taking Podcasting into the Classroom (Neil Verma. Northwestern University, USA) 8. Sonic Methodologies in Literature (Justin St. Clair, University of South Alabama, USA) 9. Sonic Materialism and/as Method (Tyler Shoemaker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 10. Sonic Methodology In Philosophy (Elvira Di Bona, The University of Turin, Italy) 11. Sonic Methodologies in Science and Technology Studies (Joeri Bruyninckx and Alexandra Supper, University of Maastricht, Holland) 12. The Sonic Environment in Urban Planning, Environmental Assessment and Management (A. Lex Brown, Griffith University, Australia) 13. Sonic Methodologies In Medicine (Jos J. Eggermont, University of Calgary, Canada) 14. Soundscape as Methodology in Psycho-Acoustics and Noise Management (André Fiebig and Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, TU, Berlin, Germany) 15. Sonic Methodologies of Sound (Salomé Voegelin, London College of Communication, UK) Section Two: Sound Arts, Musics, Spaces 16. Introduction to Section II: Art – Research – Method (Marcel Cobussen, Leiden University, The Netherlands) 17. Ambulatory Sound-making: Re-writing, Re-appropriating, “Presencing” Auditory Spaces (Elena Biserna, Independent Scholar, France) 18. Sound Installations for the Production of Atmosphere as a Limited Field of Sounds (Jordan Lacey, RMIT University, Australia) 19. Fragile Devices: Improvisation as an Interdisciplinary Research Methodology (Rebecca Caines, York University, Canada) 20. “The Music Comes from Me”: Sound as Auto-ethnography (Darla Crispin. Norwegian Academy of Music) 21. Sound Beyond Representation. Experimental Performance Practices in Music (Lucia D’Errico, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium) 22. Performing Centrifugal Sound (G Douglas Barrett, Independent Scholar, USA) 23. How to Cut Up a Record? (Paul Nataraj, University of Sussex, UK) 24. Directing Listening: Sound Design Methods from Film to Site-responsive Sonic Art (Ben Byrne, RMIT University, Australia) 25. Sound, Space, and Pneumatic Valves. Using Pneumatic Valves as Sound Sources to Create Spatial Environments (Edwin van der Heide, Leiden University, The Netherlands) 26. The Overheard - An Attuning Approach to Sound Art and Design in Public Spaces (Marie Højlund, Jonas R. Kirkegaard, Michael Sonne Kristensen, Morten Riis, University of Arhus, Denmark) 27. Sound on Sound: Considerations for the Use of Sonic Methods in Ethnographic Fieldwork inside the Recording Studio (Paul Thompson, Leeds Beckett University, UK) 28. Ecological Sound Art (Jonathan Gilmurray, University of the Arts, London, UK) 29. Hydrophonic Fields (Jana Winderen, Sound Artist, interviewed by Stefan Helmreich, MIT, USA) 30. Melt Me Into the Ocean: Sounds from Submarine Spaces (Yolande Harris, Rhode Island School of Design, USA) 31. Attentive Listening in Lo-fi Soundscapes: Some Notes on the Development of Sound Art Methodologies in Vietnam (Stefan Östersjö and Nguy?n Thanh Th?y, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden) Section Three: Geographies, Politics, Histories 32. Introduction to Section III: Listening as Method (Marcel Cobussen, Leiden University, The Netherlands) 33. Auditory Diagramming: A Research/Design Practice (Alex Arteaga, Universität der Kunste, Berlin, Germany) 34. Close Listening: Approaches to Research on Colonial Sound Archives (Annette Hoffman, University of Cape Town, South Africa) 35. Sonic Feminisms: Doing Gender in Neoliberal Times (Marie Thompson, University of Lincoln, UK) 36. Sound as City Maker: Developing Participatory Collaborative Process to Work With Sound as an Urban Resource. The Case of Mr. Visserplein (Amsterdam, NL) (Edda Bild, Michiel Huijsman, Renate Zentschnig, University of Amsterdam/Soundtrackcity, The Netherlands) 37. Dropping Down Low: Online Soundmaps, Critique, Genealogies, Alternatives (Angus Carlyle, University of the Arts, London, UK) 38. Listening as Methodological Tool: Sounding Soundwalking Methods (John L. Drever, Goldsmiths, London, UK) 39. Sounding Wild Spaces: Inclusive Mapmaking Through Multispecies Listening Across Scales (Alice Eldridge, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Roger Norum, University of Sussex, UK) 40. The Emergence of Voices in an Indian Bus Stand: An Ethnographic and Acoustic Approach (Christine Guillebaud, University of Paris Ouest, France) 41. Historical Sounds: A Case Study (Aimee Boutin, Florida State University, USA) 42. Sonic Writing(Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 43. Silence of Maua: An Atmospheric Ethnography of Urban Sounds (Jean-Paul Thibaud, CRESSON, France) 44. Sound Design Methodologies: Between Artistic Inspiration and Academic Perspiration (Nicolas Misdariis, IRCAM, Paris, France, and Daniel Hug, ZHDK, Zurich, Switzerland) 45. The Sounds of the 2001 Argentine Crises: Soundscapes of Protest, Music, and Sound Art (Violeta Nigro Giunta, EHESS-CRAL, Paris, France) 46. The Sound System of the State: Listening for Ideology in the Soundscape of Conflict (Tom Tlalim, The University of Winchester, UK) 47. Sonifications Sometimes Behave So Strangely (Paul Vickers, Northumbria University, UK) 48. The Conflicting Sounds of Urban Regeneration in Liverpool (Jacqueline Waldock, University of Liverpool, UK) 49. Ethnographies Sounded on What? Methodologies, Sounds, and Experience in Cairo (Vincent Battesti, CNRS, Paris, France) 50. Podcase Preservation and the Noise of Saved Sounds (Jeremy Wade Morris, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 51. The Earview as a Border Epistemology: An Analytical and Pedagogical Proposition for Design (Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira, Sound Designer, Brazil) 52. Hacking Composition: Dialogues with Musical Machines (Ezra J. Teboul, Independent Artist and Writer, USA)

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Book SynopsisThe Recording Engineer''s Handbook by Bobby Owsinski has become a music industry standard found in studios all over the world, and this fully updated fifth edition once again offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the art of audio recording. Written with today''s technology and workflows in mind, The Recording Engineer''s Handbook Fifth Edition is a must-have resource for anyone interested in recording either in their home or a commercial studio.In the book''s first section, you''ll learn everything from how microphones work to specific techniques for recording drums, individual instruments, vocals and much more. In the second section you''ll benefit from the wisdom and down-to-earth practical advice offered by a host recording professionals including all-time greats like Al Schmitt, Eddie Kramer, Sylvia Massy and many others.Besides the ever-popular sections on recording gear, gain staging and levels, recording techniques for just about any instrument, and interviews with some of the world''s most honored recording engineers, this 5th edition contains new topics like:The latest in recording and microphone technologyAn overview of modeling microphonesA complete overview of immersive recording techniquesA new section on cleaning and disinfecting your microphonesThe latest recording methods for drum sounds and individual instrumentsHome studio recording techniquesAnd four new interviews with top engineersLearn the art of recording with renowned author, teacher, producer and engineer Bobby Owsinski, and, in the interviews, explore the creative processes behind not only today''s hits but the classic cuts we''ve enjoyed for years. See for yourself why The Recording Engineer''s Handbook, Fifth Edition is the book that''s a standard text in college music production courses all over the world.

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Book SynopsisThis open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. For example, phasor notation has been added to clearly distinguish complex variables, and there is a new section on radiation from an unbaffled piston. Drawing on over 40 years of teaching experience at UCLA, the Naval Postgraduate School, and Penn State, the author presents a uniform methodology, based on hydrodynamic fundamentals for analysis of lumped-element systems and wave propagation that can accommodate dissipative mechanisms and geometrically-complex media. Five chapters on vibration and elastic waves highlight modern applications, including viscoelasticity and resonance techniques for measurement of elastic moduli, while introducing analytical techniques and approximation strategies that are revisited in nine subsequent chapters describing all aspects of generation, transmission, scattering, and reception of waves in fluids. Problems integrate multiple concepts, and several include experimental data to provide experience in choosing optimal strategies for extraction of experimental results and their uncertainties. Fundamental physical principles that do not ordinarily appear in other acoustics textbooks, like adiabatic invariance, similitude, the Kramers-Kronig relations, and the equipartition theorem, are shown to provide independent tests of results obtained from numerical solutions, commercial software, and simulations. Thanks to the Veneklasen Research Foundation, this popular textbook is now open access, making the e-book available for free download worldwide. Provides graduate-level treatment of acoustics and vibration suitable for use in courses, for self-study, and as a reference Highlights fundamental physical principles that can provide independent tests of the validity of numerical solutions, commercial software, and computer simulations Demonstrates approximation techniques that greatly simplify the mathematics without a substantial decrease in accuracy Incorporates a hydrodynamic approach to the acoustics of sound in fluids that provides a uniform methodology for analysis of lumped-element systems and wave propagation Emphasizes actual applications as examples of topics explained in the text Includes realistic end-of-chapter problems, some including experimental data, as well as a Solutions Manual for instructors. Features “Talk Like an Acoustician“ boxes to highlight key terms introduced in the text. Trade Review“The author achieves his stated goal in helping researchers know when their computer simulations might contain errors by using test cases with numerous examples. … well suited for teaching acoustics at the undergraduate and graduate level and is an excellent reference for those interested in the physical aspects of acoustics in strings, membranes, and bars. As such it is a good reference for those interested in speakers and audio technology, musical acoustics, physical acoustics, and a wide range of applications.” (James M. Gelb, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 69 (5), 2021)Table of ContentsChapter1: Comfort for the Computationally Crippled.- Part I – Vibrations.- Chapter2: The Simple Harmonic Oscillator.- Chapter3: String Theory.- Chapter4: Elasticity of Solids.- Chapter5: Modes of Bars.- Chapter6: Membranes, Plates and Microphones.- Part 2 – Waves in Fluids.- Chapter7: Ideal Gas Laws.- Chapter8: Nondissipative Lumped Elements.- Chapter8: Nondissipative Lumped Elements.- Chapter9: Dissipative Hydrodynamics.- Chapter10: One-Dimensional Propagation.- Chapter11: Reflection, Transmission, and Refraction.- Chapter12: Radiation and Scattering.- Chapter13: Three-Dimensional Enclosures.- Chapter14: Attenuation of Sound.- Part3: Extensions.- Chapter15: Nonlinear Acoustics.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive presentation of the most important phenomena in building physics: heat transfer, moisture/humidity, sound/acoustics and illumination. As the book is primarily aimed at engineers, it addresses technical issues with the necessary pragmatism and incorporates many practical examples and related international standards. In order to ensure a complete understanding, it also explains the underlying physical principles and relates them to practical aspects in a simple and clear manner. The relationships between the various phenomena of building physics are clarified through consistent cross-referencing of formulas and ideas. The second edition features both new and revised sections on topics such as energy balance, solar gain, ventilation, road traffic and daylighting and takes into account new developments in international standards. It newly features almost 200 illustrations and 21 videos worth of supplementary material. The book is primarily aimed at students of civil engineering and architecture, as well as scientists and practitioners in these fields who wish to deepen or broaden their knowledge of topics within building physics.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Basics of thermodynamics.- Heat transfer.- Heat transfer in building components.- Moisture in building components.- Basics of waves.- Sound propagation.- Building acoustics.- Illumination.- Appendix A.- Tables.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Book SynopsisSonar performance modelling (SPM) is concerned with the prediction of quantitative measures of sonar performance, such as probability of detection. It is a multi-disciplinary subject, requiring knowledge and expertise in the disparate fields of underwater acoustics, acoustical oceanography, sonar signal processing and statistical detection theory. No books have been published on this subject, however, since the 3rd edition of Urick’s classic work 25 years ago and so Dr Ainslie’s book will fill a much-needed gap in the market. Currently, up-to-date information can only be found, in different forms and often with conflicting information, in various journals, conference and textbook publications. Dr Michael Ainslie is eminently qualified to write this unique book. He has worked on sonar performance modeling problems since 1983. He has written many peer reviewed research articles and conference papers related to sonar performance modeling, making contributions in the fields of sound propagation and detection theory.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“This book attempts to provide a combination of information and understanding of the physics and detection theory to enable the reader to address sonar performance issues. … this book is most useful for those who need to build models of aspects of sonar performance. It will also be useful for those who need to specify, test, or evaluate models. … a source of material for someone preparing a course on underwater acoustics or sonar performance modelling. … a good reference book for an acoustics library.” (Adrian Brown, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 17 (1), 2012)Table of ContentsIntroduction Essential Background The Sonar Equations Sonar Oceanography Underwater Acoustics (I): theory Sonar Signal Processing Statistical Detection Theory Underwater Acoustics (II): sources and scatterers of sound Underwater Acoustics (III): propagation effects Sonar Characteristics The Sonar Equations Revisited The Future of Sonar Performance Modelling Appendix 1: Special functions and mathematical operations Appendix 2: Units and nomenclature Appendix 3: Fish and their swim bladders.

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Book SynopsisOver the past two decades it has been increasingly recognized that whole-body ultrasound is an invaluable tool in the critically ill. In addition to offering rapid whole-body assessment, it has the advantage of being a bedside approach that is available at all times and can be repeated at will. Accordingly, it permits the immediate institution of appropriate therapeutic management. Whole-Body Ultrasound in the Critically Ill is the sequel to the author’s previous books on the subject, which were first published in French in 1992 and 2002 and in English in 2004. This new volume reflects the latest state of knowledge by including a variety of improvements, revised definitions, and updated algorithms. Findings in respect of individual organs are clearly presented, and a particular feature is the in-depth coverage of the lungs, traditionally regarded as an area unsuitable for ultrasound. Throughout, the emphasis is on the practical therapeutic impact of the technique. Its value in a variety of settings, including unexplained shock, management of hemodynamic instability, acute respiratory failure (the BLUE protocol), and the critically ill neonate, is carefully explained. Interventional ultrasound and less widely recognized applications, such as mesenteric infarction, pneumoperitoneum, and intracranial hypertension, are also described. Pitfalls of the technique receive due attention. Today, whole-body ultrasound touches upon every area of critical care. This book, from the chief pioneer in the field, shows that the technique enables critical care physicians to detect therapeutically relevant signs easily and quickly. It will serve as an invaluable guide to the practice of a form of visual medicine.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“Intensivists or radiologists with an interest in critical care applications of ultrasound are the intended audience for this work, edited by one of the fathers of critical care ultrasound. … This edition expands coverage of the abdomen and vascular system and increases the emphasis on the evaluation of deep venous thrombosis, pleural effusion, interstitial disease, and pneumothorax. … Chapters are written in a conversational style. … this remains an effective overview for intensivists.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2010)Table of ContentsIntroductive Chapters.- Basic Notions of Critical Ultrasound.- The Ultrasound Equipment.- Specific Notions of Critical Ultrasound in the Critically Ill.- Organ by Organ Analysis.- to Abdominal Ultrasound: Normal Patterns.- Peritoneum.- Gastrointestinal Tract.- Liver.- Gallbladder.- Urinary Tract.- Various Targets in the Abdomen (Spleen, Adrenals, Pancreas, Lymph Nodes).- Aorta.- Principles of Examination of the Deep Veins in the Critically Ill.- Principles of Examination of the Deep Veins in the Critically Ill.- to Lung Ultrasound.- Pleural Effusion.- Lung: Alveolar Syndrome.- Lung and Interstitial Syndrome.- Pneumothorax.- Basic Applications of Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill: 1 – A Bedside Alternative to CT and Other Irradiating Techniques.- Basic Applications of Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill: 2 – The Ultrasound Approach of an Acute Respiratory Failure: The BLUE Protocol.- Applications of Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill: 3 – Lung Ultrasound in the Neonate.- Simple Emergency Cardiac Sonography.- Simple Critical Ultrasound Considering Hemodynamic Therapy: Our Limited Investigation.- Head and Neck.- Soft Tissues and Miscellaneous Areas.- Clinical Applications of Ultrasound.- Interventional Ultrasound.- Ultrasound in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Some Peculiarities.- Critical Ultrasound Outside the Intensive Care Unit.- Analytic Study of Severe and/or Frequent Situations in the Critically Ill.- Free Considerations.- A Way to Learn Critical Ultrasound.- Critical Ultrasound, Not Just a New Technique: Also a Philosophy.

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Book SynopsisRenal sonography forms a basic part of routine diagnostic strategy. This textbook summarizes eighteen years of experience in diagnostic ultrasound. We want it to serve as a guide to both imagers and mere consumers of information. That is why we shall emphasize practical advice and diagnostic pitfalls; it is also why we shall often deal with the relations of sonography with other diagnostic procedures, which it may complement or replace, precede or follow, the purpose being to achieve efficiency at low cost. We shall limit our subject matter to the kidney itself and the neighboring retroperitoneal compartments, dealing only briefly with the lower urinary tract, which requires specialized procedures. We devoted considerable space to renal sonography in our book Clinical Atlas of Ultrasonic Radiography, published in 1973. Since then, nothing has changed and everything has changed. Nothing, because even then the differential diagnosis between a solid and a cystic mass, the etiologic diagnosis of a nonsecreting kidney, and the positive diagnosis of a traumatic juxtarenal hematoma were quite reliable, making possible drastic reductions in the indications for instrumental roentgenologic examinations. Everything, be­ cause improved resolution and grey scale imaging (already partially achieved in 1973, thanks to real time) have profoundly refined both anatomic and pathologic ultrasonic studies. And now high resolution real time imaging has revolutionized renal examination techniques, whereas Doppler is entering routine ultrasonic diagnosis.Table of Contents1 Echoanatomy: Tissue Echopatterns.- 1.1 The Kidney Itself.- Shape.- Size.- Pyelovascular Central Area. Renal Pelvis.- Renal Parenchyma.- 1.2 The Kidney as a Part of the Retroperitoneal Compartment.- Juxtarenal Compartments.- Bone and Muscle.- Vessels.- Adrenal Gland.- Retrocaval Kidney.- Pancreas.- 1.3 Less Direct Renal Relationships.- Right Side.- Left Side.- 1.4 Basic Tissue Echopatterns: Pitfalls and Artifacts.- Tissue Echopatterns.- Artifacts.- 2 Examination Techniques.- 2.1 Technical Data.- Contact Scanning.- Real Time.- Peroperative Sonography.- 2.2 Technological Prospects.- 2.3 Technical Factors of Image Quality.- Suppression of Kinetic Blurring.- Axial and Lateral Spatial Resolution.- Total Gain and Time Gain Compensation Settings.- 2.4 Positioning and Scanning Directions.- Real Time.- Contact Scanning.- 2.5 Particular Problems.- Critically III Patients; Recently Operated Patients;.- Traumatized Patients.- Newborn and Infant.- Puncture Techniques.- 2.6 General Management of Ultrasonic Examinations.- 3 Hydronephrosis.- 3.1 Beginning Hydronephrosis.- 3.2 Frank Hydronephrosis.- 3.3 Major Hydronephrosis.- 3.4 Differential Diagnosis.- 3.5 Ureteral Dilatation.- 3.6 Complementary Pelvic Examination.- 3.7 Renal Lithiasis.- 4 Renal Cysts.- The Renal Cystic Pattern.- 4.1 Benign Cysts.- Diagnostic Circumstances.- Ultrasonic Pattern.- Multiple Benign Cysts.- Atypical Cysts — Tumoral Cysts.- Parapelvic Cysts.- Differential Diagnosis.- Clinical and Radiological Management.- 4.2 Polycystic Processes.- Polycystic Processes of the Neonate and Child.- Infantile and Juvenile Polycystic Disease.- Polycystic Disease of the Adult (PCD).- Echinococcal Cysts.- Differential Diagnosis of Multiple Cysts.- 5 Renal Tumors.- 5.1 Malignant Tumors.- Renal Cell Carcinoma.- Oncocytomas.- Urothelial Carcinomas.- Wilms’ Tumors and Mesoblastic Nephromas.- Renal Sarcomas.- Renal Metastases.- Renal Lymphomas.- Diagnosis.- 5.2 Benign Tumors.- 5.3 Differential Diagnosis.- Large Tumors (Over 10 cm in Diameter).- Medium-Sized Tumors (4–10 cm in Diameter).- Small Tumors (Under 4 cm in Diameter).- Reliability.- 6 Evaluation of Tumoral Spread: The Retroperitoneal Space.- 6.1 Direct Spread.- 6.2 Lymphatic Spread.- 6.3 Intracaval Extension.- 6.4 Metastatic Spread.- 6.5 Clinical and Radiological Policy.- 6.6 Particular Cases.- Urothelial Tumors.- Tumors in Children.- Local Recurrences After Nephrectomy.- Other Retroperitoneal Abnormalities.- 7 Infections and Inflammatory Processes.- 7.1 Abscesses.- Bacterial.- Tuberculous.- Differential Diagnosis — Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis.- 7.2 Bacterial Nephritides.- 7.3 Pyonephrosis.- Recently Infected Hydronephrosis.- Older Pyonephrosis.- 7.4 Tuberculosis.- 7.5 Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Inflammatory Processes.- 7.6 Chronic Pyelonephritis.- 7.7 Nephrocalcinosis, Papillary Necrosis, and Cortical Necrosis.- Nephrocalcinosis.- Papillary Necrosis.- Cortical Necrosis.- 7.8 Nephritides.- Renal Size.- Echotexture.- 7.9 Postnephrectomy Abscesses.- Ultrasound and IVU in Chronic Inflammatory Processes.- 8 Hunchbacks, Dwarfs, and Giants.- 8.1 Horseshoe Kidneys.- 8.2 Miscellaneous Anomalies.- 8.3 Absence of Kidney; Ectopic Kidneys.- 8.4 Renal Hypoplasia.- 8.5 Nephromegaly.- Nephromegaly with Normal Differentiation.- Nephromegaly with Loss of Parenchymal-Central Differentiation.- Heterogeneous Nephromegaly.- Multinodular Nephromegaly.- 8.6 Abnormalities of Vascular Origin.- Renal Vein Thrombosis.- Renal Artery Occlusion.- 8.7 The Transplanted Kidney.- Rejection.- Arterial Thrombosis.- Renal Vein Thrombosis.- Hydronephrosis.- Liquid Collections.- Cancerization..- 8.8 Ultrasound in Renal Failure — Anuria.- 9 Ultrasonic Differential Diagnosis and Diagnostic Policies: Synopsis.- 10 Renal Trauma and Juxtarenal Collections, Traumatic and Nontraumatic.- 10.1 Examination Procedure in the Traumatized Patients.- 10.2 Renal Lesions.- Contusion.- Renal Wounds and Fractures — Intrarenal Hematomas.- 10.3 Juxtarenal Abnormalities.- Hematomas.- 10.4 Traumatic Urinomas (Uriniferous Cysts) and Nontraumatic.- Collections.- Trauma and Preexisting Lesions.- 10.5 Associated Lesions.- 10.6 Radiological Policy.- 11 Adrenals.- 11.1 The Normal Adrenal.- Examination Procedure.- 11.2 The Pathological Adrenal.- Tumors.- Pheochromocytomas.- Other Tumors.- Metastases.- Bilateral Tumors.- Tumoral Spread.- Hematomas.- 11.3 Diagnosis.- 11.4 Reliability and Diagnostic Policy.- 12 Lower Urinary Tract.- 12.1 Bladder.- True and False Diverticula-Stones.- Ureteroceles.- Intramural Ureter.- Tumors.- Urachus.- Urethra.- 12.2 Prostate.- Scanning Technique.- Normal Prostate.- Tumors.- Prostatitis.- Seminal Vesicles.- Diagnostic Policy in Prostatic Swellings.- 12.3 Testis and Its Covering.- Examination Procedure.- Normal Testis.- Miscellaneous Abnormalities.- Varicoceles.- Trauma.- Orchitis and Epididymitis.- Tumors.- References.

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Book SynopsisThe value of ultrasound contrast agents (USCA) in clinical practice depends on the pharmacokinetics, the signal processing, and the contrast-specific imaging modalities. USCA are exogenous non-toxic substances smaller than red blood cells,which after intravenous administration must be stable enough to pass through the pulmonary capillary bed and enter the blood pool producing the necessary contrast enhancement for the duration of the examination. Recently, second-generation agents, such as SonoVue (Bracco Imaging SpA,Milan,Italy),have been introduced into the market. These agents,taking advantage of the stability of their microbubbles,withstand the acoustic pressure of insonation much better than previous USCA,resulting in an increased half-life of the agent and thus in a prolonged diagnostic window. These agents are blood pool agents that remain in the intravascular compartment and do not leak into the organ tissue. Therefore,they are used to - crease the Doppler signal amplitude during their dynamic vascular phase. Concomitant with the improvement of contrast agents,d- ferent contrast-specific imaging modalities have been developed which,used in combination with USCA and a low mechanical - dex (MI),allow continuous real-time grey-scale imaging. These - cent technical improvements have opened new possibilities in the use of USCA in a variety of indications,as shown in the contributions contained in this book. In the following chapters,some of the most distinguished users of second-generation USCA will share their knowledge and experience. The first contributor is Dr. Thomas Albrecht,Department of - diology, University Hospital of Berlin, Germany.Table of ContentsChapter 1-Dynamic Vascular Pattern of Focal Liver Lesions with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: Latest Results with SonoVue. Chapter 2-Usefulness of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Characterization of Pancreatic and Renal Masses. Chapter 3-Improved Characterization of Reactive and Malignant Lymph Nodes using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound. Chapter 4-Which Role for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Prostate Cancer Examination?

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Book SynopsisThis book elucidates on the examination technique, the sonographic changes in musculoskeletal rheumatic involvement and the ultrasound assessment of joint rheumatic diseases. The atlas is enriched with several figures, in which the US picture is compared with that of conventional radiography, CT and MRI. It provides a unique collection of black and white and color images for easy and reliable diagnosis. The book is a practice-oriented tool.Table of ContentsEquipment and examination technique generalities. Equipment. Examination technique. Artifacts. Doppler technologies. Echo-contrast agents.- Technical examination procedure. Thoracic and abdominal wall. Upper extremity. Lower extremity.- Sonographic and power Doppler normal anatomy. Cartilage. Synovial spaces. Tendons and ligaments. Muscles. Nerves. Dermis and hypodermis.- Sonographic changes in musculoskeletal rheumatic involvement. Cartilage. Synovial spaces. Tendons and ligaments. Muscles. Nerves. Dermis and hypodermis.- Pathologic findings in rheumatic diseases. Osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis. Seronegative spondyloarthritis. Crystal-related arthropathies. Connective tissue disorders. Metabolic diseases. Synovial osteochondromatosis. Pigmented villonodular synovitis. Septic arthritis. Hemophiliac arthropathy. Primitive and peripheral entrapment neuropathies. Rheumatology in sport.- Ultrasonography and therapy monitoring.- Ultrasound-guided procedures.

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Book SynopsisThe book provides a comprehensive description of the ultrasound anatomy of the musculoskeletal system and clear guidance on the technique. Ultrasound images are coupled with anatomic pictures explaining probe positioning and scanning technique for the various joints of the musculoskeletal system: shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist, hip, knee, foot, and ankle. For each joint there is also a brief explanation of normal anatomy as well as a list of tricks and tips and advice on how to perform the ultrasound scan in clinical practice. This book will be an excellent practical teaching guide for beginners and a useful reference for more experienced sonographers.Table of ContentsBasic Principles of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound.- Shoulder.-Elbow.- Wrist.- Hand.- Hip.- Knee.- Ankle.- Foot.-Recommended Reading.

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Book SynopsisIn this newly updated directory, the latest in cutting-edge audio equipment is provided, including how to choose the best audio equipment on a budget, how to get the best sound for the money, and how to set up a system for maximum performance. Revised and expanded to include all the latest audio technologies, this book is packed with expert advice how to make speakers sound up to 50 percent better at no cost, avoid the most common system set-up mistakes, and how to choose the one speaker in 50 worth owning. Among the new topics covered are streaming audio, computer-based music servers, music-management apps, wireless streaming, high-resolution digital audio. A short course on listening-room acoustics is presented and additional information on audio for home theater, multichannel audio, system set-up secrets, and what each component's specifications and measurements mean is also provided.Trade Review"Its impressive breadth and depth make it a valuable guide to audio's gold mine. . . You'll learn valuable things from Harley's book, not just at first reading, but as you come back to it over and over. Peter Moncrieff, International Audio Review"This is the best guidebook we've seen on the subject." Wayne Thompson, The OregonianTable of ContentsContents Foreword xvi Preface to the Sixth Edition xviii About the Author xx 1 What Is High-End Audio? 1 2 Choosing a High-End Audio System 7 3 Becoming a Better Listener 27 4 Preamplifiers and Phono Stages 57 5 Power and Integrated Amplifiers 81 6 Loudspeakers 117 7 Digital Source Components: DACs, Music Servers, Streaming, Disc Players, Interfaces 173 8 Turntables, Tonearms, and Cartridges: The LP Playback System 255 10 Audio for Home Theater 317 11 Multichannel Audio 345 12 Personal Audio: Headphones, Desktop, and Mobile Audio 361 13 System Setup Secrets, Part One: Loudspeaker Placement and Room Acoustics 381 14 System Setup Secrets, Part Two: Expert Tuning Techniques, Accessories, Equipment Racks, and AC Power Conditioners 425 15 Specifications and Measurements 451 Appendix A: Sound and Hearing 463 Appendix B: Audio and Electronics Basics 479 Appendix C: Digital Audio Basics 503 Glossary 519 Index 559

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Book SynopsisRe-Making Sound is concise and flexible primer to sound studies. It takes students through six ways of conceptualizing sound and its links to other social phenomena: soundscapes; noise; sound and semiotics of the voice; sound and/through/in text; background sound/sound design; and sound art. Each chapter summarizes the history and scholarly theoretical underpinnings of these areas and concludes with a student activity that concretizes the historical and theoretical discussion via sound-making projects. With chapters designed to be flexible and non-sequential, the text fits within various course designs, and includes an introduction to key concepts in sound and sound studies, a cumulative concluding chapter with sound accompanying podcast exercise, and an extensive bibliography for students to pursue sound studies beyond the book itself.Trade ReviewRe-Making Sound is splendid. Porcello and Patch advance sound studies in unique and compelling fashion and a whole generation of future scholars of the audible will be in their debt. -- Mark Smith, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, author of A Sensory History Manifesto (2021)Porcello and Patch have crafted a thoughtful, wide-ranging, and ear-opening introduction to the broad and expansive field of sound studies. Re-making Sound creates a jumping-off point for students, teachers, and other readers interested in exploring the links between sound and society. -- David Novak, Associate Professor of Music, UC Santa Barbara, author of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (2013)Re-Making Sound is a wonderful and innovative book, offering an immensely valuable and unique introduction to sound studies. By supporting their exposition with a focus on sensory experience and a set of classroom exercises geared towards making and listening, Thomas Porcello and Justin Patch’s original and timely contribution will make rewarding reading for sound focused scholars and students alike. -- Daniel Fisher, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, USA, author of The Voice and Its Doubles: Music and Media in Northern Australia (2016)Table of ContentsFigures Biographies Preface Introduction 1. Soundscape: Sound, Space, and Listening 2. Noise: From the Everyday to the Exceptional 3. Voice: Hearing and Ascribing Individual and Social Identity 4. Sound on the Page: Echoes and Resonances in Writing 5. Sound Design/Designing Sounds: Intentionally Crafted Sonic Worlds 6. Sound Art: What is Sound? Debates and Examples Concluding Exercise: Putting the Pieces Together Through Audio Narratives Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThis second edition offers a unique and focused study of the use of ultrasound during the first trimester, a critical time in a fetus’ development. It includes basic examination guidelines as well as cutting-edge ultrasound modalities, including Doppler and three-dimensional ultrasound, for the period immediately preceding conception through early embryology. Fully updated, the text begins with a discussion of the safety and efficacy of diagnostic ultrasound and the use of this modality for the evaluation and treatment of infertility. Recognized experts in the field then explore conditions that may interfere with normal conception or development, including maternal diseases that would benefit from early scanning, elements of teratology, multiple gestations, ectopic pregnancy, gestational trophoblastic disease, fetal anomalies and invasive procedures in the first trimester. This edition includes seven new chapters focusing on the imaging of fetal development, including chapters on the first trimester fetal brain, genitourinary tract, and diagnosis of fetal genetic syndromes. Numerous illustrations, figures, and online videos serve as aides for understanding key concepts. First-Trimester Ultrasound, 2e is a valuable resource for many, in or after training, in obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, emergency medicine, family medicine and genetics.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis is the second, updated and extended edition of a well-received book that offers a comprehensive overview of ultrasonographic imaging of acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases, including acute abdomen, appendicitis, diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel diseases, neoplasms and masses, infections, malabsorption syndromes, and rare conditions. The value of ultrasound in each disorder is clearly explained and illustrated, and limitations identified. Information is also provided on recent technical developments and ultrasound applications that are likely to become of increasing importance, such as functional and 3D ultrasound, contrast agents and intraoperative ultrasound, elastography, and transperineal ultrasound. The authors are all distinguished experts in the topics they address. Ultrasound of the Gastrointestinal Tract will be a helpful guide in daily practice not only for radiologists but also for gastroenterologists, abdominal surgeons, pediatricians, and oncologists.Table of ContentsPart I: Acute Abdomen.- Part II: Chronic InflammatoryBowel Diseases.- Part III: Infections.- Part IV: Neoplasm.- Part V: Procedures and Technical Developments.- Part VI: Transperineal Ultrasound.

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Book SynopsisMorton, so have business strategies, patent battles, and a host of other factors.Trade ReviewTraces the development of sound technology in the U.S. and Europe from the first demonstration of the phono-autograph in 1857 to the latest MP3 technology. Morton skillfully blends a basic understanding of the physical principles involved in recording sound waves with an interesting chronological account that examines the cultural and economic issues affecting the development of sound technology... Written in an engaging style for general readers and includes references to primary and scholarly resources for readers who want to learn more. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroductionTimeline1. Birth of Recording2. Out of the Laboratory3. The Commercial Debut of Sound Recording Devices4. The Introduction of Discs5. Recording in the Business World6. The Heyday of the Photograph7. The Talkies8. Records and Radio in the United States9. The Crucial 1930s10. Recording in World War II11. The Postwar Scene12. Hi-Fi13. Revolution in the Studio14. Mobile Sound15. Cassette to Compact Disc16. Record Companies versus the World17. Online Music and the Future of ListeningGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis"Resonant Alterities" bridges the gap between sound studies and literary criticism. A queer ghost story by Vernon Lee, an occultist novel of psychic adventure by Algernon Blackwood, a dystopian science fiction tale by J.G. Ballard and a post-traumatic short novel by Don DeLillo are its primary objects of analysis. Each is explored within the context of its contemporary cultural debates on sound. Meanwhile, all four theory-enriched readings focus on intersecting and desire-laden processes of meaning making, knowledge production and subject formation. Focal points are aurally/audio-visually structured phenomena expressive of both collective and individual anxieties.Trade ReviewReviewed in: The Chronicle, 01.05.2015

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This impressive book by two distinguished workers in theoretical acoustics brings together both standard and novel mathematical methods now available to workers in acoustics. The result is a masterful achievement that should be indispensable for research workers and teachers in acoustics and related fields in engineering and science."--Ambrose Swasey, Physics Today

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