Acoustical Imaging

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers and Their use for 2D and 3D Imaging....Pages 1-9
Portable Ultrasonic Phased Array System....Pages 11-16
A Novel Approach for Ultrasonic Imaging of Sheet Contours for Hydroforming....Pages 17-23
A Phased Array System for the Acquisition of Ultrasonic RF-Data up to 20 MHZ....Pages 25-32
Computation and Properties of the Wide-Band Beam Pattern....Pages 33-42
A Fine Pitch Interconnection Method for High Frequency λ-Spaced Linear Arrays Using Microflex Technology....Pages 43-48
Design and Construction of a Blood Flow Detector Probe for Medical Application....Pages 49-56
Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique for Industrial Applications....Pages 57-68
Interaction of Short Pulses of Focused Ultrasound with Interfaces and Plane-Parallel Objects....Pages 69-76
Third Order Elastic Constant Diffraction Tomography....Pages 77-82
Characterization of the Fatigue Damage of Advanced Ceramic Composites by Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 83-90
Nonlinear Acoustic Imaging: Fundamentals, Methodology, and NDE-Applications....Pages 91-98
Acoustic Visualization of Interface Deterioration in Adhesive Bond Joints....Pages 99-104
Ultrasonic Imaging of Thin Materials Using High Resolution Air-Coupled Transducers....Pages 105-111
Ultrasound Thermography in NDE: Principle and Applications....Pages 113-120
Ultrasound Diffusion for Crack Depth Determination in Concrete....Pages 121-128
Imaging of Cracks and Honeycombing in Concrete Elements....Pages 129-137
Rapid Imaging of Large Steel Plate Structures Using Guided Waves....Pages 139-146
Ultrasonic Techniques for Imaging and Measurements in Molten Magnesium Using Clad Buffer Rods....Pages 147-155
Acoustic Imaging with Surace and Lamb Waves for NDE and Material Characterisation....Pages 157-164
Ultrasound Activated Speckle Interferometry for Defect-Selective Imaging in NDE: Principle and Applications....Pages 165-168
Electrical Impedance Matching of PVDF Ultrasonic Transducers....Pages 169-174
A New Structure of SH Wave Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT)....Pages 175-183
An Array Implementation of the Resonance Spectroscopy Method for Adhesive Bonding Imaging....Pages 185-192
Investigation of Structure and Properties of Immisible Polymer Blend by Acoustic Microscopy Techniques....Pages 193-198
Measuring Sound Velocities and Anisotropy of Microstructural Units of Laminate Composite Materials by Microacoustical Technique....Pages 199-206
Ultrasonic Imaging of Rubber Material and Rubber Metal Interfaces....Pages 207-214
Evaluation of Rubber-PVC Blends Structure and Properties Using Scanning Acoustic Microscope....Pages 215-220
Acoustic Microscopy, Brillouin Scattering and Laser-Saw Technique for Defect Characterization in DLC Films....Pages 221-228
Application of Microacoustical Technique to Study Elastic Properties and Microstructure of New Generation of Bulk Metallic Glasses....Pages 229-235
Imaging of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced (CFR) Laminates Microstructure by Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 237-243
Image Reconstruction in Transmission Ultrasound Tomography....Pages 245-253
Aberration Correction in Near Field Tomography....Pages 255-262
Fast Simulation of Ultrasonic B-Mode Images....Pages 263-272
An Educational Model and Toolbox for Acoustic Tomographic Imaging....Pages 273-280
Acoustic Travel Time Tomography as a Method to Observe Turbulent Structures in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer....Pages 281-288
Nonlinear Acoustic Methods for Crack Vision....Pages 289-296
Optical Observation of Shock Wave Propagation Caused by Collapsing Bubble....Pages 297-304
New Informative Possibilities of Active-Passive Thermoacoustic Tomography....Pages 305-313
Optical Measurement and Visualization of Transient Ultrasonic Wave Fields....Pages 315-322
Recovery of the Shape and Location of a Rigid Cylindrical Body from Experimental Scattered Acoustic Field Data....Pages 323-332
Effects, Connected with Passing of High Frequency Longitudinal Wave Through the Film — Sublayer System in the Direction Normal to the Contact Plane....Pages 333-339
Characterization and Imaging of Thin, Highly Oriented Layers: Theory and Experiment....Pages 341-348
Nonlinear Acoustic Vision of Bubble Objects and Flows....Pages 349-356
Split Phase Processing — a Single Image, Resolution Loss Free Method for Ultrasound Speckle Reduction....Pages 357-364
Quantum Acoustical Imaging....Pages 365-371
Seismic Imaging — Prospects and Challenges on All Scales....Pages 373-382
Ultrasonic Laboratory Measurements on Spherical Samples — a Tool for the Investigation of Seismic Anisotropy in Rocks....Pages 383-390
Seismic Imaging Ahead of the Tunnel Boring Machine....Pages 391-398
The Effect of Cementation on the Seismic Properties of Sandstone....Pages 399-405
Recent Advances in Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 407-414
New Developments in Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 415-421
Scanning Acoustic Microscopy Covering a Wide Temperature Range: SAM(T)....Pages 423-430
Fundamentals of Spatio-Temporal Fourier Spectroscopy in Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 431-438
Ultrasound Imaging of Propagation of Rapid and Minute Velocity Components in Heart Wall....Pages 439-446
New Developments in Ultrasonic Adaptive Focusing Through the Human Skull: Application to Non Invasive Brain Therapy and Imaging....Pages 447-456
Harmonic and Subharmonic Acoustic Response of Microbubble....Pages 457-462
Morphologic Operators Applied to Breast Tumour Ultrasound Image Classification....Pages 463-470
Ultrasound Blood Flow Imaging in Carotid Arteries Before and After Endarterectomy....Pages 471-477
Acoustic and Mechanical Properties of Aortic Aneurysms Assessed by Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 479-483
Real Time Images of Local Ultrasonic Spectral Parameters for Tissue Differentation Through Wavelet Transform....Pages 485-493
Ultrasonic Sound Speed Microscope for Biological Tissue Characterization Driven by Nanosecond Pulse....Pages 495-501
Principle, Applications and Limitations of Ultrasound Elastography....Pages 503-510
A Clinical Ultrasound Scanner Developed for Imaging the Relative Surface Attenuation, Reflectivity and Profile of Skin Lesions....Pages 511-518
3D Simulations of Elastic Wave Propagation in Cortical Bone....Pages 519-526
Ultrasonic Imaging and Characterization of Accupuncture Points in Classical Oriental Medicine....Pages 527-533
Acoustic Microscopy Methods in a Morphological Study of the Articular Cartilage and Subchondral Bone....Pages 535-540
Assessment of Bone Properties Using High Resolution Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 541-548
Quantitative Ultrasonic Tomography of Long Bones: Distorded Born Iterative Process....Pages 549-554
Imaging Prostate Brachytherapy Seeds with Pulse-Echo Ultrasound and Vibro-Acoustography....Pages 555-561
Combination of Acoustic and Optical Microscopy for Investigation of Biological Cell Properties....Pages 563-572
Correlative Fluorescence and Acoustic Microscopy in the Study of Cell Volume Regulation....Pages 573-577
Attenuation Mapping of Living Cells at Hypersonic Frequencies....Pages 579-584
A Doppler Viewpoint on Microbubble Destruction....Pages 585-590
Imaging and Quantitative Data Acquisition of Thinly and Thickly Sliced Biological Tissues with Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 591-599
Ultrasonic Diffraction Tomography: Multichannel Circular Antenna....Pages 601-605
Evaluation of Split Spectrum Processing as a Phase Sensitive Algorithm to Enhance Volume Based Registration....Pages 607-612
Application of an Acoustic Microscope for the Assessment of Dental Cement Microstructure and Properties During the Hardening Process....Pages 613-618
Ultrasonic Examination of Hard Tissues Using Golay Complementary Series Excitation....Pages 619-626
Ultrasound Spiral Computed Tomography for Differential Diagnosis of Breast Tumors Using a Conventional Ultrasound System....Pages 627-633
A New Probe for Accurate Velocity Measurements in Axial Transmission Technique: Application to Cortical Bone Evaluation....Pages 635-642
Ultrasound Based Methods for Monitoring of Thermal Therapies....Pages 643-649
Speckle Reduction by Summation of Higher Order Harmonic Images....Pages 651-657
Coded Signals for Intraoperative Registration of the Human Skull....Pages 659-666
A Haptic System for Virtual Reality Applications Based on Ultrasound Elastography and Electro-Rheological Fluids....Pages 667-674
Multi-Frequency Quantitative Imaging of High Contrast Objects: A Canonical Approximation....Pages 675-682
Method to Simulate Pulse Propagation and B-Mode Images with Ultrasound Contrast Agents, Reverberation and Bjerknes Forces....Pages 683-690
A New Approach to Diffraction Tomography....Pages 691-698
Ultrasonic Modes in Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 699-706
Characterization of Layered Materials with Near-Field Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 707-713
Ultrasonic Atomic Force Microscopy on Spray Dried Ceramic Powder....Pages 715-720
Surface and Bulk Investigation of Materials with Scanning Microdeformation Microscopy: What is Really Investigated?....Pages 721-727
Polymer Elasticity Analysis with Atomic Force Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 729-733
Recent Advances in near Field Acoustics with Resonating Horns: Near-Field Acoustics with Resonating Horns....Pages 735-740
How can Ultrasound help with Connecting Friction and Adhesion Hysteresis at Local Scales?....Pages 741-748
Towards Time-Resolved Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 749-756
Fresnel Diffraction Measured by Scanning Force Microscopy....Pages 757-766
Back Matter....Pages 767-774