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No text devoted to the application of ultrasound to medicine would be complete without at least a brief review of the remarkable events which have preceded its current uses. In fact, one review of musculoskeletal ultrasound includes “From bats and ships to babies and hips” in its formal title [1]. Although this is clearly an oversimplification, it emphasizes the presence of ultrahigh-frequency sound in our natural environment and its scientific adaptation to more practical matters.
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Sofferman, R.A. (2012). The History of Clinical Ultrasound. In: Sofferman, R., Ahuja, A. (eds) Ultrasound of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0974-8_1
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