Acoustical Imaging

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Imaging Acoustics and Acoustic Imaging....Pages 1-6
A Brief History of Medical Ultrasonics....Pages 7-13
Developments of Ultrasonic Measurement Technology for Acoustic Imaging....Pages 15-24
Ultrasound Computed Tomography: From the Past to the Future....Pages 25-35
History of Acoustical Imaging....Pages 37-44
Quantitative Ultrasound for Bone Properties....Pages 45-52
Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Micromeasurement of Elastomechanical Bone Properties—Comparison with Nanoindentation Results....Pages 53-59
Investigating Compact Bone Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Using Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 61-67
2D Simulation of the Axial Transmission Technique on a Cortical Bone Plate....Pages 69-76
An Ultrasound System for the Diagnosis of Osteoporosis....Pages 77-82
Cells as Seen with the Acoustic Microscope....Pages 83-90
Development of Three Dimensional Image Analysis System for Computer Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using Ultrasonic Echography....Pages 91-96
Ultrasonic Images of Tissue Local Power Spectrum by Means of Wavelet Packets for Prostate Cancer Detection....Pages 97-104
Detecting Cardiac Allograft Rejection by Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 105-110
Ultrasonic Measurement of Depth-Dependent Strains of Articular Cartilage in Compression....Pages 111-119
A Research Platform for Diagnostic Ultrasound....Pages 121-129
A Novel Method to Measure the Spatial Average Temporal Average Intensity ( I sata ) and Ultrasonic Power (W) in Medical Composite Ultrasonic Transducers....Pages 131-135
Prediction of Amplitude and Frequency Dependence of the Backscatter Coefficient in Cancellous Bone with An Autocorrelation Model....Pages 137-142
Investigation Of The Surface Microstructure Of The Polyamide-Hydroxyapatite And Polyethylene-Hydroxyapatite Bone Implants With Acoustic Microscopy Methods....Pages 143-152
Multi-Step Compensation Technique for Ultrasound Tomography of Bone....Pages 153-160
Influence of fat Components and Tissue Preparation on the High Frequency Acoustic Properties....Pages 161-166
Application of Short-Time Fourier Multi-Narrowband Analysis to In Vivo Human Skin Between 12 and 25 MHz....Pages 167-173
Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE) System: Development of Combined Transmission and Reflection Ultrasound with New Reconstruction Algorithms for Breast Imaging....Pages 175-182
Ultrasonic Force Microscopy: Nanometer Scale Mechanical Contrast....Pages 183-189
Imaging of the Ferroelectric Domains Pattern in the Ultrasonic Piezo-Mode....Pages 191-198
A Comparison of the Saw Velocity for Thin Film Aluminum Nitride on Silicon by Line Focus Beam Acoustic Microscopy and Direct Transducer Measurements....Pages 199-204
Ultrasonic Time Resolved Measurements by the V(X) Method....Pages 205-212
Phase Sensitive Acoustic Microscopy Image Quality Estimation by Volume Imaging in Anisotropic Media....Pages 213-221
Investigation of Elasto-Mechanical Properties of Alginate by Ultrasound Methods....Pages 223-229
Reconstruction of Fine-Scale Structure of Acoustical Scatterer on Large-Scale Contrast Background....Pages 231-238
Singular Spectrum Analysis Applied to 20MHz Backscattered Ultrasound Signals from Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Phantoms....Pages 239-246
Novel Techniques In Ultrasonic Correlation Spectroscopy....Pages 247-254
The Impact of Loss on Ultrasound Propagation....Pages 255-263
The Modeling of Correlation-Tomography Reconstruction of Thermoacoustical Radiation Sources....Pages 265-272
Configurational Classification of Stochastic Structures as a Way of Tissues Classification for Acoustical Tomography....Pages 273-280
Useful Metrics for Evaluation of Diffractive Energy Imaging....Pages 281-288
Advancements in Ultrasonic Imaging for Materials Testing....Pages 289-296
Acoustic Microscopic Characterization on Advanced Ceramic Composites....Pages 297-300
Acoustical Imaging of “Kissing Debond” Regions at the Interfaces of Adhesively Bonded Laminates....Pages 301-307
Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Acoustic Nonlinearities at an Interface with Poor Adhesive Bonding....Pages 309-317
Ultrasonic Measurement of Liquid Flow at Elevated Temperature....Pages 319-328
Evaluation Of Shear Relaxation Time And Derived Parameters From Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements Of Cu(I) And Some Tetraalkyl Ammonium Salts In Binary Organic Mixtures To Study Various Structural Effects....Pages 329-336
Ultrasonic Imaging of Material Condition Using Advanced Simplified Ultrasonic CT....Pages 337-344
Development of a Nondestructive Method for Ultrasonic Evaluation of Adhesive Bond Joint Performance....Pages 345-352
Frequency Domain Filtering for Enhanced SAM Inspection of Microelectronic Components....Pages 353-361
Matrix Arrays for the 21 st Century....Pages 363-372
Optimization of Pulse-Echo Array Transducer System for Identification of Specified Targets....Pages 373-380
Air Coupled Ultrasonic Transducers: Design and Applications....Pages 381-387
Virtual Biopsy by Means of Miniaturized Fiber Optics Ultrasonic Transducers....Pages 389-396
New Development of an Ultrasound Transmission Camera....Pages 397-404
Time-Varying Nonlinear Diffraction Tomography—A New Form of Acoustical Imaging....Pages 405-412
Directivity Spectrum of an Apodized Ultrasound Transducer....Pages 413-418
Optimisation of Wide-Band Beam Patterns by Means of a Joined Synthesis of Weighting Coefficients and Pulse Envelope....Pages 419-427
Lossy Mechanisms in Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers....Pages 429-436
Suppression of Edge Waves by Apodization of Wide Band Cylindrical Transducers....Pages 437-442
Ultrasonic Fields of Clad Buffer Rods Imaging Probes....Pages 443-452
Improving the Accuracy of Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound....Pages 453-460
An Effect of Scatterer Size on Reflex Transmission Imaging....Pages 461-466
Increasing Frame Rate of Limited Difraction Imaging System with Code Excitations....Pages 467-475
Obstacle Detection by Three Dimensional Frontal Imaging with Laser-Induced Breakdown....Pages 477-484
A Modified Frontal 3-D Imaging for Intravascular Ultrasound with Sparse Synthetic Ring Array....Pages 485-492
Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 493-501
Acoustic Tomography and Wave Propagation in Natural Bubble Fields....Pages 503-512
Back Matter....Pages 513-516