Acoustical Imaging (Volume 24)

Noncoherent Synthetic Aperture Imaging....Pages 1-8
Imaging with a 2D Transducer Hybrid Array....Pages 9-20
Inferring 3-dimensional animal motions from a set of 1-dimensional multibeam returns....Pages 21-26
Development of an Ultrasonic Focusing System Based on the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique....Pages 27-34
High-Resolution Process in Ultrasonic Reflection Tomography....Pages 35-41
Spatial Coherence and Beamformer Gain....Pages 43-48
A New Approach for Calculating Wideband Fields....Pages 49-56
High-Resolution Acoustic Arrays Using Optimum Symmetrical-Number-System Processing....Pages 57-64
Frequency Weighting of Distributed Filtered Backward Propagation in Acoustic Tomography....Pages 65-72
Exact Solution of Two-Dimensional Monochromatic Inverse Scattering Problem and Secondary Sources Space Spectrum....Pages 73-78
Hausdorff Moments Method of Acoustical Imaging....Pages 79-86
A Generalized Inversion of Helmholtz Equation and Its Application to Acoustical Imaging....Pages 87-93
Real Time Processing of the Radiofrequency Echo Signal for On-Line Spectral Maps....Pages 95-100
Reconstruction of Inner Field By Marchenko-Newton-Rose Method and Solution of Multi-Dimensional Inverse Scattering Problem....Pages 101-106
RF Ultrasound Echo Decomposition Using Singular-Spectrum Analysis....Pages 107-112
High-Performance Computing in Real-Time Ultrasonic Imaging....Pages 113-120
Causality Revisited....Pages 121-125
Resolution Analysis of Acoustic Tomographic Imaging with Finite-Size Apertures Based on Spatial-Frequency Coverage....Pages 127-134
Radiation Force Doppler Effects on Contrast Agents....Pages 135-140
B-Mode Speckle Texture: The Effect of Spatial Coherence....Pages 141-146
Extending the Bandwidth of the Pyramidal Detector....Pages 147-153
The Use of a Reference-Beam Detector Applied to the Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscope....Pages 155-156
Acoustic Microscopy Evaluation of Endothelial Cells Modulated by Fluid Shear Stress....Pages 157-163
Ultrasound Imaging of Human Teeth Using a Desktop Scanning Acoustic Microscope....Pages 165-171
The Acoustic Parameters Measurement by the Doppler Scanning Acoustic Microscope....Pages 173-178
Quantitative Contact Spectroscopy by Atomic-Force Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 179-186
Double Focus Technique for Simultaneous Measurement of Sound Velocity and Thickness of Thin Samples Using Time-Resolved Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 187-192
A New Method for 3-D Velocity Vector Measurement Using 2-D Phased Array Probe....Pages 193-199
Acoustic Velocity Profiling of a Scattering Medium: Simulated Results....Pages 201-206
Ultrasonic Velocity Measurement in Viscoelastic Material Using the Wavelet Transform....Pages 207-214
An Ultrasonic Circular Aperture Technique to Measure Elastic Constants of Fiber Reinforced Composite....Pages 215-222
Application of Heat Source Model and Green’s Function Approach to NDE of Surface Defects....Pages 223-228
Determination of Bonding Properties in Layered Metal Silicon Systems Using Sezawa Wave Modes....Pages 229-235
Integral Approximation Method for Calculating Ultrasonic Beam Propagation in Anisotropic Materials....Pages 237-244
Elastic Stress Influence on the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves Through Two-Layered Periodic Dielectric Structures....Pages 245-252
A New System for Quantitative Ultrasonic Breast Imaging of Acoustic and Elastic Parameters....Pages 253-259
Determination and Evaluation of the Surface Region of Breast Tumors Using Ultrasonic Echohraphy....Pages 261-271
Determination of Ultrasound Backscatter Level of Vascular Structures, with Application to Arterial Plaque Classification....Pages 273-280
Investigation of the Micro Bubble Size Distribution in the Extracorporeal Blood Circulation....Pages 281-285
A Method for Detecting Echoes from Microbubble Contrast Agents Based on Time Variance....Pages 287-294
Analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Echo Signals for Characterization of Vessel Wall Properties....Pages 295-300
In Vivo Study of the Influence of Gravity on Cortical and Cancellous Bone Velocity....Pages 301-308
Ultrasound Contrast Imaging of Prostate Tumors....Pages 309-316
High Resolution Estimation of Axial and Transversal Bloodflow with a 50 MHZ Pulsed Wave Doppler System for Dermatology....Pages 317-324
Diffraction Tomography Breast Imaging System: Patient Image Reconstruction and Analysis....Pages 325-333
Calibration of the Urturip Technique....Pages 335-340
Studies of Bone Biophysics Using Ultrasound Velocity....Pages 341-348
Imaging of the Tissue Elasticity Based on Ultrasonic Displacement and Strain Measurements....Pages 349-359
System Independent in Vivo Estimation of Acoustical Attenuation and Relative Back Scattering Coefficient of Human Tissue....Pages 361-367
Ultrasound Images of Small Tissue Structures Free of Speckle....Pages 369-376
Optimization of Non-Uniform Arrays for Farfield Broadside Beamforming....Pages 377-384
Hyperthermia Therapy Using Acoustic Phase....Pages 385-392
Ultrasonic Broadband Fiber Optic Source for Non Destructive Evaluation and Clinical Diagnosis....Pages 393-399
A Study of Signal-To-Noise Ratio of the Fourier Method for Construction of High Frame Rate Images....Pages 401-405