Echocardiography has advanced from the unidimensional (TM) technique of the early 1970s to the two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler techniques of the early 1980s. The author reviews the major entities dealt with by cardiac ultrasound; the strength of this book lies in its organisation and presentation. The introductory chapter covers structure identification, transducer positions, cardiac view planes and some applications of pulsed Doppler echocardiography.