目次

1 Introduction.- Part I: General Considerations.- 1 Historic review.- 2 Clinical usefulness of breath sounds.- 3 Nomenclature.- Part II: Sound recording, analysis, and perception. 4 Physics of sounds.- 5 Sound transmission through the human body.- 6 Breath sound recording.- 7 Current techniques for breath sound analysis.- Part III. Respiratory sounds. 8 Normal versus adventitious sounds.- 9 Crackles.- 10 Wheeze.- 11 Other lung sounds.- 12 Cough sound.- 13 Extrathoracic origin sounds.- Part IV. Where Are We Going?  14 Future prospectes for respiratory sound research.- 15 Towards a unified nomenclature.- 16 Epilogue.