Acoustical Imaging

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Phonon Imaging....Pages 1-10
Synthetic Aperture Echo Imaging....Pages 11-15
Exact and Approximate Scattering Data for Testing the Filtered Backpropagation (FBP) and a Hybrid FBP Reconstruction Algorithm....Pages 17-22
Reconstruction Imaging Without Artefacts....Pages 23-27
Potential and Limitations of Various Ultrasonic Medical Imaging Algorithms....Pages 29-33
Account of Multiple Scattering in Acoustic Inverse Problems of Tomographic Type....Pages 35-39
Estimating a Target Cross Section from Forward Scattering Amplitude....Pages 41-46
Phonon Focusing Influence on the Formation of Acoustic Image in Crystals....Pages 47-51
Active Imaging Green’s Function....Pages 53-57
Ultrasonic Tomographic Imaging of Anisotropic Solids....Pages 59-63
On the Reconstruction of Internal Magnetic Field in Ferrites Using Magnetoacoustic Resonance Profile....Pages 65-69
Superresolution in Ultrasonic Imaging....Pages 71-76
Superresolved Image Restoration of Holographic Images by L1-Norm Minimization with Clutter Rejection....Pages 77-82
Improvement of Resolution in Acoustical - Holographic Imaging by Neural Network Processing....Pages 83-88
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Images: Theoretical Performance....Pages 89-93
A New Phonon-Focusing Phenomenon due to Elastic Mode Conversion on Silicon Surfaces....Pages 95-97
Application of Chaos to Sound Propagation in Random Media....Pages 99-102
Acoustical Imaging Using Spectral Decomposition of the Aperture Field....Pages 103-107
Ultrasonic Speckle Region and Extra-Speckle Condition....Pages 109-114
Direct and Inverse Scattering In 3-D Fluid Media....Pages 115-119
A Temporal-Spatial Correlation Theory and Experiment for Visualization of Ultrasonic Wavefront....Pages 121-125
The Shadow behind Rotational Rigid and Elastic Bodies Immersed in Fluids - Computed and Measured....Pages 127-131
Asymptotic and Experimental Analysis of the Nonspecular Reflection of Focusing Ultrasonic Beams from Fluid-Solid Interface....Pages 133-139
Theoretical Modelisation of Time-Reversal Cavities, Application to Self-Focussing in Inhomogeneous Media....Pages 141-147
Acoustic Self-Imaging in Resiliently Lined Waveguides....Pages 149-154
Phase and Amplitude Reconstruction of an Acoustic Source from the Study of its Diffraction Pattern....Pages 155-159
An Iterative Filtered Backprojection Algorithm for Ultrasound Reflection Mode Tomography....Pages 161-165
Applications of Area and Solid-Angle Functions in Acoustics....Pages 167-173
Exact Computer Modelling: A Tool for the Design of Imaging Transducers....Pages 175-186
Quality Control of Ultrasound Transducers with the Binary Hough Transform....Pages 187-191
A 100-Element Ultrasonic Circular Array for Endoscopic Application in Medicine and NDT....Pages 193-199
A New Sector Imaging Algorithm Using Circular Array....Pages 201-205
Adaptive Beamforming for Correction of Velocity Fluctuations Close to the B-Scan-Array....Pages 207-212
Sound Speed Fluctuations in Medical Ultrasound Imaging Comparison between Different Correction Algorithms....Pages 213-218
Spurious Echo Generation in Pulse Piezoelectric Transducer for Acoustical Imaging and its Reduction....Pages 219-223
Optimization of Dynamic Receive Focusing in Ultrasound Imaging....Pages 225-229
Multiobjective Design of Curved Array Sonar Transducers....Pages 231-236
Experimental Progress of Ultrasonic Time Reversal Mirrors....Pages 237-242
Signal Processing in High-Frequency Broadband Imaging Systems for Dermatologic Application....Pages 243-249
High-Speed C-Scan Imaging System with Electronic Scanning of 25MHz Ultrasonic Beam....Pages 251-256
Acquisition and Visualization of 3D Ultrasound Images....Pages 257-261
An Efficient Data Acquisition System for Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic Imaging....Pages 263-267
Three Dimensional Location with Ultrasound in Neurosurgery....Pages 269-274
Echography with Continuous Ultrasonic Waves....Pages 275-281
The Use of a Thick Focused Piezoelectric Transducer to Generate Short Duration Unipolar Wave....Pages 283-287
P(VDF-TrFE) Transducer with a Concave Annular Structure for the Layer Thickness Measurement....Pages 289-294
Nondiffracting Transducers Using the Natural Resonant Eigenmodes of Circular Plates....Pages 295-299
Time Domain Colour Flow Imaging: Methods and Benefits Compared to Doppler....Pages 301-309
In Vivo Measurement of Blood Flow Using Ultrasound Time-Domain Correlation....Pages 311-315
Comparison of Estimation Strategies for Color Flow Mapping....Pages 317-322
Calculation of Doppler Spectra When Laminar Flow is Crossing the Acoustic Field of a Transducer at Arbitrary Distances....Pages 323-328
Quantitative Flow Measurement Through Doppler Analysis at Right Angle....Pages 329-334
The Wigner Distribution in the Doppler Sonography....Pages 335-339
Intraluminal Doppler-Sonography: Analysis and “in Vitro Test” of a New Device....Pages 341-346
Physical Foundation of Zero Crossing Techniques....Pages 347-351
New Developments in Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization....Pages 353-362
A Few Effective Signal Processings for Reflection-Type Imaging of Nonlinear Parameter N of Soft Tissues....Pages 363-368
Correlation between Histology and High Resolution Echographic Images of Small Skin Tumours....Pages 369-374
Intelligent Adaptive Filter in the Diagnosis of Diffuse and Focal Liver Disease....Pages 375-380
Echocardiographic Image Analysis Based on the Evaluation of first Order Speckle Statistics....Pages 381-385
Echo Signal Processing in Medical Ultrasound....Pages 387-391
Texture Analysis of B-Scan Images: Transferability between Different Ultrasound Scanners....Pages 393-397
Ultrasonic Bone Tissue Characterization in Gaucher Disease Type I....Pages 399-402
Application of Ultrasound Time-Domain Correlation to the Ageing of Porcine Muscle for the first Twenty-Four Hours Post Mortem....Pages 403-407
Attenuation Measurement with Transmitted and Reflected Ultrasound - A Comparison of Different Methods....Pages 409-414
Ultrasonic Tomography of Large, Attenuating Objects....Pages 415-420
Real-Time Imaging with Area-Array Transducers Using Analog Wave-Field Reproduction and an Application in Transcranial Sonography....Pages 421-426
Improvement of Lesion Detection by Echographic Image Processing....Pages 427-431
Turning off Speckle....Pages 433-437
Physical Characterization of Microbubble Based Ultrasound Contrast Agents....Pages 439-445
Effects of Speckle Reduction Processing on Ultrasound B-Mode Images of Skin Tumours....Pages 447-452
B—Scan—Sonography in Dermatological Routine Diagnostics....Pages 453-461
Utilization of Surface Acoustic Waves and Shear Acoustic Properties for Imaging and Tissue Characterization....Pages 463-467
Ultrasound Based Diagnosis of the Immune Reactions in Transplanted Kidneys....Pages 469-473
Ultrasound Velocity Imaging by a Pulse-Echo Technique....Pages 475-480
Three-Dimensional Shaded Surface Reconstructions of Cardiac and Paracardiac Structures....Pages 481-485
Artifact Resistant Gray Scale Windows in Clinical Ultrasound of the Liver....Pages 487-492
A Simulation Study of Structural Scattering in Ultrasonic B-Mode Imaging....Pages 493-498
Implementation of the Scanning Tomographic Acoustic Microscope for Multiple-Angle Tomography....Pages 499-509
Sam Investigations: The Structural Basis of Cell Surface Stiffness of Cultured Cells....Pages 511-516
Ultrasound Microscopy of Biological Structures with Weak Reflecting Properties....Pages 517-522
Acoustic Imaging of the Mitotic Spindle in Dividing XTH2-Cells....Pages 523-528
Preparation Techniques in Acoustical and Optical Microscopy of Biological Tissues, a Study at 5 MHz and 1.2 GHz....Pages 529-533
Acoustic Velocity Determination in Cytoplasm by V(Z) Shift....Pages 535-538
Acoustical Microscopy Applications for Living Cells Investigations....Pages 539-544
Synthetic Aperture Focussing Technique: State of the Art....Pages 545-551
Volume Acquisition and Visualization of High-Frequency Ultrasound Data....Pages 553-557
Ultrasonic Defect Imaging by a Probabilistic Approach....Pages 559-565
Experiments and Experiences Using Filtering and Data Reduction Techniques for Imaging in Nondestructive Testing....Pages 567-573
Ultrasonic Imaging of Damages in CFRP-Laminates....Pages 575-579
Imaging of Defects in Thin-Walled Tubing Using Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight....Pages 581-587
Ultrasonic Imaging of Impact Damaged Composite Panels....Pages 589-594
Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation of Damage Evolution in Composite Materials....Pages 595-600
Ultrasonic Imaging of the Asphaltic Concrete Surface Layer....Pages 601-605
New Developments in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 607-616
Inversion of V(z) Data in the Scanning Acoustic Microscope (SAM) to Determine Material Properties of a Layered Solid....Pages 617-622
Description of Elastic Discontinuities with the Scanning Acoustic Microscope....Pages 623-626
Acoustic Parameter Mapping of Layered Materials Using a Lamb Wave Lens....Pages 627-632
Thickness Measurement of Passivated Metallization Layers by Saw Dispersion....Pages 633-637
Formation of the Images of Spherical Objects in Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 639-643
Acoustic Scanning Microscope for Investigation of Subsurface Defects....Pages 645-649
Study of Structure and Properties of Highly Anisotropic Materials by Acoustomicroscopical Methods....Pages 651-655
Exploration of Thin Wall Tube Defects by a Novel Ultrasonic Shadow Microscope....Pages 657-660
Imaging Properties of the Scanning Acoustic Microscope (SAM)....Pages 661-665
Imaging of Crystal Defects by Sound-Beam Topography Using Wavelengths in the Submicrometer Range....Pages 667-671
Acoustic Microscopy for Material Characterization....Pages 673-677
Transmission Acoustic Microscopy Investigation....Pages 679-683
Acoustic Microscope for Measuring Acoustic Properties by Micro-Defocusing Method....Pages 685-689
Observation of Microcrack Damage in Al 2 O 3 -Ceramics by Scanning Acoustic Microscopy and Small Angle X-Ray Scattering....Pages 691-696
Continuous Wave Transmission Measuring Scanning Acoustic Microscope....Pages 697-701
Restauration of Defocussed Images of Glass/Water-Edges and Chromium/Glass-Edges in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM)....Pages 703-707
Nondestructive Monitoring Damage in Composites Using Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 709-716
Imaging of Integrated Circuit Packaging Technologies Using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 717-721
Scanning Acoustic Microscopy as a Non-Destructive Technique for Process Monitoring of High Power Semiconductor Devices....Pages 723-729
Investigations of Damaged Metal Matrix Composites by Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 731-736
Tunneling Microscopy of Acoustic Waves....Pages 737-741
Imaging of Laser—Generated Ultrasonic Waves in Silicon....Pages 743-748
Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy of Residual Stresses in Ceramics: Theory and Experiment....Pages 749-753
Signal Generation and Contrast Mechanisms in Electron and Photo Acoustic Imaging of Differently Doped Silicon....Pages 755-759
Visualization of Douphine Twin in Quartz Filter by Electron Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 761-765
An Improved Measurement System for the Investigation of Sensitive Specimens by Means of Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy (SEAM)....Pages 767-772
Capacitive Transducers for Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy (SEAM)....Pages 773-777
Imaging and Characterization of Wear Behavior in WC+Co Coating and 45# Steel by Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 779-783
Acoustic Imaging at the Planetary Scale....Pages 785-797
The Use of the Seismic Waves Nonlinear Interactions for Remote Sensing of Geological Data....Pages 799-802
The CRE-Method: A Technique of Homeomorphic Imaging in Processing of Seismic Data....Pages 803-809
A Study of Cross-Holes Inverse Scattering Tomography with Maximum Entropy....Pages 811-816
Seismic Tomographic Reconstruction: Field Cases and Theoretical Studies....Pages 817-822
The Simulation Study of Inversion of Two—Dimensional Elastic Wave Equation with Two Variable....Pages 823-827
Sampling Multidimensional Seismic Data - A Study Case....Pages 829-834
Several Problems of Geophysical Diffraction Tomography - Towards Practical Application....Pages 835-839
On the Estimation of the Bottom Geoacoustic Parameters Using Measurements of Plane Wave Reflection Parameters....Pages 841-846
Validation of a Finite Element Modelization of Shallow Waves Propagation....Pages 847-852
Acoustical Remote Sensing in the Atmosphere....Pages 853-860
Reconstruction of Fluid Vorticity by Acoustic Tomography....Pages 861-865
Digital Holographic Imaging for Underwater Acoustic Applications....Pages 867-872
A Simulation Study of 3D Image Generation Using Fan-Beam Sonars....Pages 873-878
High-Resolution Array Processing Experiments with Multibeam Echo Sounder....Pages 879-883
A Multibeam Sonar for Fishery....Pages 885-889
Focusing Beamforming by Optical Processors for Underwater Acoustical Imaging....Pages 891-896
Modal Analysis of Sound Field in Deep Sea....Pages 897-901
3-D High Resolution Sonar Imaging....Pages 903-908
Resolution Improvement in Sonar Using Deconvolution Filtering....Pages 909-913
Directivity Pattern of Active Sonars with Wideband Signals....Pages 915-919
Improving Resolution of Sensor Array Images Using Multiple Frames of Data....Pages 921-925
Underwater Acoustic Field in the Presence of Coastlines: A Uniform GTD Approach....Pages 927-931
Two-Phase Flow Measurement in Pipelines Using Ultrasonic-Tomography....Pages 933-937
A Method to Measure the Movement of a Rough Plane Ultrasonically by Doppler - Phase Shift....Pages 939-944
Touchless Determination of 3-D-Arbitrary Surfaces with High Accuracy using 500 kHz Air Ultrasound....Pages 945-950
Acoustic Returns from a Wind-Excited Surface Covered with Monomolecular Oil Films....Pages 951-955
Object Recognition Using an Ultrasonic Sensor System....Pages 957-962
Back Matter....Pages 963-986