Abstract
In 1988 Radiology published Bruno Fornage’s report on the feasibility of sonographic imaging of peripheral nerves (Fornage 1988). At that time he used an ALOKA 210-DX scanner (which is meanwhile hardly found in museums) with a 5–7.5 MHz linear array transducer and with his report opened up a new field of sonographic imaging. In the first edition of our book we mentioned the technical developments in sonography, which were achieved since this event and until now only 4 years have passed. Nevertheless the technical success story of sonography has continued and will certainly do so in the future. Meanwhile, high resolution transducers of up to 17 MHz are a must for imaging of superficial nerves and dedicated artifact reduction software is a standard tool in almost every modern ultrasound scanner. This has changed the role of sonography in musculoskeletal diagnosis in general, and for inspection of the peripheral nerve sonography may meanwhile really be regarded as the number one imaging modality. The spectrum of peripheral nerve disease entities accessible to sonography has since the first edition of this book also broadened, but still there are white spots on the map, which warrant further research.
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Peer, S. (2008). High Resolution Sonography of the Peripheral Nervous System: General Considerations and Technical Concept. In: Peer, S., Bodner, G. (eds) High-Resolution Sonography of the Peripheral Nervous System. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49084-5_1
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