Acoustical Imaging

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
System Resolution Analysis of the Scanning Tomographic Acoustic Microscope....Pages 1-6
Visualization of Living Cells by Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 7-12
Surface Acoustic Wave Dispersion Studies on the Layered CU/SI Structure Using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 13-18
Scanning Near Field Acoustic Microscopes for the Evaluation of Polycrystalline Materials....Pages 19-24
Non-Invasive Temperature Imaging Using Ultrasound Echo Strain: Preliminary Simulations....Pages 25-33
Medical Ultrasound Imaging Using Pulse Compression and Depth-Dependent Mismatched-Filtering....Pages 35-40
Ultrasonic, Spectrum-Analysis, Tissue-Typing Images for Prostate-Biopsy Guidance and Staging....Pages 41-46
Perfusion of Parenchyma — In Vitro Simulation Using Contrast Agents and 2nd Harmonic Imaging....Pages 47-51
Non-Stationary Parametric Spectral Estimation for Ultrasound Attenuation....Pages 53-59
Fdtd Simulation of Transcranial Focusing Using Ultrasonic Phase-Conjugate Arrays....Pages 61-66
A Method for Imaging the Spatial Coherence of Pulsed Ultrasound Fields....Pages 67-74
Computer Phantoms for Simulating Ultrasound B-Mode and CFM Images....Pages 75-80
Contrast Response for Medical Ultrasound Analysis....Pages 81-87
Non-Contact Ultrasonic Imaging for the Evaluation of Burn-Depth and other Biomedical Applications....Pages 89-93
Determination of Gallbladder Stone Composition with Ultrasound — in Vivo and in Vitro Studies....Pages 95-100
Ultrasonic Breast Imaging Assisted by Acoustic Velocity Reconstruction....Pages 101-106
Very-High Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging and Spectral Assays of the Eye....Pages 107-112
Tissue Strain Estimation Using a Lagrangian Speckle Model....Pages 113-117
Calibration for the urturip Technique Using an Energy Minimization Method....Pages 119-124
A Method to Identify Reverberation Echoes in Multilayered Homogeneous Media....Pages 125-130
Seismic Signal Processing of Ultrasound Imaging Data....Pages 131-136
Determination of Velocity and Attenuation Using Broadband Pulse Technique....Pages 137-143
Bone Elastometric Imaging Using Ultrasound Critical-Angle Reflectometry (UCR)....Pages 145-150
Nondestructive Evaluation of Osteoprogenitor Cell Cultures Using High Frequency Acoustical Imaging and Image Processing....Pages 151-156
Ultrasonic Attenuation and Dispersion of Cancellous Bone in the Frequency Range 200 Khz-600 Khz....Pages 157-162
Three-Dimensional Imaging and Roughness Characterization of Articular Cartilage by 50 Mhz Echography....Pages 163-168
Improvement on Quality of Echocardiograms....Pages 169-176
Application of Order Statistics Filters to Cardiac Boundary Determination in Ultrasound Images....Pages 177-180
Relationship Between Ultrasonic Attenuation, Apparent Integrated Backscatter (30 To 50 Mhz) and the Composition of Atherosclerotic Plaque....Pages 181-186
Noninvasive Evaluation of Spatial Distribution of Local Instantaneous Strain Energy in Heart Wall....Pages 187-192
A Method for Intravascular Ultrasound Frontal Viewing....Pages 193-196
Four Ultrasonic Methods for Measurement of Volumetric flow with no Angle Correction....Pages 197-202
Forward and Inverse Problems in Endovascular Elastography....Pages 203-209
Application of Angle-Dependence in the Ultrasonic Echo Signal to Estimation of Carotid Plaque Contents....Pages 211-216
Feasibility of Littoral Imaging with a 3 Khz Synthetic Aperture Sonar....Pages 217-222
Partially-Coherent Ultrasonic Imaging....Pages 223-230
Remote Acoustic Emission Spectrography (RAES)....Pages 231-236
A Hand-Controlled, 3D Ultrasound Guide and Measurement System....Pages 237-242
A Low Power Image Reconstruction Technique for Phased Array Scanners....Pages 243-248
High-Speed Transmission of Images with Limited Diffraction Beams....Pages 249-254
High — Speed Ultrasound 2D-Imaging Camera....Pages 255-260
A Weighted Fresnel Approximation for the Delays Used in Focused Beamforming....Pages 261-266
3D Power Doppler Ultrasound Imaging of an in Vitro Arterial Stenosis....Pages 267-272
Refraction Artifacts in Doppler Spectra Due to Dual Mode Ultrasound Propagation....Pages 273-278
Air Ultrasonic Transducers Combining High Sensitivity, Large Bandwidth and Wide Beamwidth....Pages 279-283
A 3D Doppler Scanning System for Quantitative Flow Measurements....Pages 285-290
Shear Rate Dependence of Normal, Hypo-, and Hyper- Aggregating Erythrocytes Studied with Power Doppler Ultrasound....Pages 291-296
Doppler and Cinematic Phased Array Imaging Via Depth-Focusing....Pages 297-302
A New Approach to Obtain Non-Diffraction Beam with Near-Field Resolution on Linear and Convex Arrays....Pages 303-308
Statistical Estimations in Thermo Acoustical Introscopy....Pages 309-314
Experimental Observation of Speckle Motion Artifact with Rotation....Pages 315-320
A New Form of Acoustical Imaging, the Soliton Imaging....Pages 321-328
Object Imaging System Using Acoustic Fourier Transform....Pages 329-336
Estimation of Mean Scatterer Spacing Based on RF Echo Data Obtained From Different Transducer Systems....Pages 337-342
Transient Wave Field Calculation for Ultrasonic Transducers Using Integral Transform Methods....Pages 343-348
A New Three-Dimensional Model of Piezoelectric Elements for Composite Materials....Pages 349-354
Scanning and Imaging Using Lamb Waves....Pages 355-361
Field Propagation via the Angular Spectrum Method....Pages 363-368
Approximations for Leaky Wave Amplitudes in Acoustic Imaging: Applications to High Frequency Sonar....Pages 369-374
Numerical Techniques for Modeling Ultrasound Systems....Pages 375-384
Optical Visualization of Wideband Ultrasound Fields....Pages 385-390
On Understanding the Relationship Between Ultrasound Speckle and the Scattering Microstructure....Pages 391-398
Modeling of Ultrasonic Beam Interaction with an Anisotropic Multilayered Medium, Using Angular Spectrum Method....Pages 399-404
Shear Relaxation Times of Some Perchlorates Evaluated From Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements....Pages 405-407
Multiparameter Inversion of Elastic Wave with a Single Impulse Source....Pages 409-414
Modular System for Detection of Flaws in Metal Blocks....Pages 415-420
Advanced Image Processing Techniques For Automatic Interpretation of Time-of-Flight Diffraction Images....Pages 421-425
Application of Ultrasonic Force Microscope to Fracture....Pages 427-432
Ultrasonic Inspection of Tendon Ducts in Concrete Slabs Using 3D-SAFT....Pages 433-439
Bistatic Circular Array Imaging with Gated Ultrasonic Signals....Pages 441-446
Evaluation and Interpretation of Saft Images....Pages 447-452
Holographic Reconstruction of Acoustic Fields By Discrete Convolution....Pages 453-458
Shape Reconstruction of a Penetrable Scattering Body via Diffracted Waves and Canonical Solutions....Pages 459-464
Reconstruction of Flow and Refractive Ocean Parameters by Tomography Methods....Pages 465-470
Acoustic Source Spectral Estimation for a Shallow Water Channel....Pages 471-476
The Development of a very Large, Dense Packed, Two-Dimensional, Ultrasonic Imaging Array....Pages 477-483
A128 X128 (16K) Ultrasonic Transducer Hybrid Array....Pages 485-494
Diver-Held Imaging System Modeling....Pages 495-500
Littoral Target Forward Scattering....Pages 501-506
Automatically Combining a Geomorphologic Map Using 2-D Imaging Sonar Data....Pages 507-512
Shear Surface Acoustic Waves Localized Near a Planar Defect....Pages 513-517
Biomimetic Sonar for Object Recognition....Pages 519-524
Data Fusion Between Low-Resolution Bathymetry and High-Resolution Images for the 3D Restitution of the Sea Bottom....Pages 525-530
Inversion of Acoustic Reflection Data for Sea-Bottom Reconstruction....Pages 531-536
Littoral Coherence Limitations on Acoustic Arrays....Pages 537-542
Acoustic sounding the statistics of fluctuating fluid....Pages 543-554
Trajectory Estimation of Moving Target in the Medium with a Strong Scattering....Pages 555-562
A Study of Detecting and Imaging Small Targets On Seabed....Pages 563-568
3D Sonar Imaging in Real-time Using Inverse Beamforming (IBF)....Pages 569-574
Synthetic Aperture Computed Tomography....Pages 575-581
Simultaneous Spatial and Velocity Vector Mapping with Diffraction Tomography....Pages 583-588
Multi-Dimensional Acoustical Tomography by Incomplete Data....Pages 589-594
Back Scattered Ultrasonic Tomography: Experiments and Modelizations....Pages 595-600
Nonlinearity Parameter Tomography — A Novel Imaging Method in Tissue Characterization....Pages 601-605
Experimental Investigations of the Correlation Tomography Space Resolution....Pages 607-611
Multiple Frequency Distorted Born Iterative Method for Tomographic Imaging....Pages 613-619
Method of Formal Parameter Expansion for Acoustical Inverse Scattering Problems....Pages 621-626
Model-Based Object Recognition by 3-Dimensional Sparse Ultrasonic Arrays....Pages 627-634
Ultrasonic Reflection Tomography of Post-Discotomic Scarring....Pages 635-640
Renormalized Born Inversion....Pages 641-646
Back Matter....Pages 647-653