K. Kirk Shung obtained a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan in 1968; a M.S. in electrical engineering from University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1970; and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Washington, Seattle, in 1975. In 2002 he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles as a professor and became a dean's professor in 2013. He has published over 500 papers and book chapters, is the author of Diagnostic Ultrasound: Imaging and Blood Flow Measurements published by CRC press in 2005, and co-editor of Ultrasonic Scattering by Biological Tissues published by CRC Press in 1993.

"... provides excellent coverage in many areas of the physics and engineering of diagnostic ultrasound imaging, but also misses some key concepts that would be useful to new ultrasound physicists and engineers. Although designed as a biomedical engineering textbook on ultrasound imaging, it is useful as a handbook for quick reference to many basic concepts, bioeffects and acoustic measurement techniques for diagnostic ultrasound imaging and applications."—Jeremy J. Dahl, Stanford, California, USA, from Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Volume 41, Number 12, 2015

• Introduction. Fundamentals of acoustic propagation. Ultrasonic transducers and arrays. Gray-scale ultrasonic imaging. Doppler flow measurements. Flow and displacement imaging. Contrast media and harmonic imaging. Intracavity and high-frequency (HF) imaging. Multidimensional imaging and recent developments. Biological effects of ultrasound. Methods for measuring speed, attenuation, absorption, and scattering.