Acoustical Imaging: Volume 31

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Novel Ultrasound Tomograph for Anatomical Inspection....Pages 3-10
High Frame-Rate Imaging Applied to Quasi-static Elastography....Pages 11-18
Plane Wave Pulse-Echo Ultrasound Diffraction Tomography with a Fixed Linear Transducer Array....Pages 19-30
Advanced Ultrasonic Tomograph of Children’s Bones....Pages 31-38
3D Simulation of Ultrasound in the Ultra-Distal Human Radius....Pages 39-43
Ultrasonic Evaluation of Deeply Located Trabecular Bones – Preliminary Results....Pages 45-53
Detection of Reflux in Jugular and Vertebral Veins Through Directional Multigate Quality Doppler Profiles....Pages 55-67
Combined B-Mode and Multigate Spectral Doppler-Mode Imaging for Flow-Mediated Dilation Investigation....Pages 69-79
Micro capsules : Reverse Sonoporation and Long-lasting, Safe Contrast....Pages 81-90
Influence of Microbubble Shell Chemistry on the Destruction Threshold of Ultrasound Contrast Agent Microbubbles....Pages 91-101
Numerical Ray-Tracing in Full Angle Spatial Compounding....Pages 103-113
An Automatic Method for Measurements of Arterial Intima-Media Thickness Using Ultrasonic B-Mode Data....Pages 115-122
Statistical Properties of Echosignal Obtained from Human Dermis In Vivo....Pages 123-133
Ultrasound Background Cancellation Based on Time-Varying Synthesis....Pages 135-145
Optimization in the Multi-element Synthetic Transmit Aperture Method for Ultrasound Imaging....Pages 147-156
Coded Excitation with Directivity Correction in Synthetic Aperture Imaging System....Pages 157-167
Sound Field Directivity Correction in Synthetic Aperture Algorithm for Medical Ultrasound....Pages 169-179
Enhancing Tissue Attenuation Estimation from Backscattered Ultrasound Using Spatial Compounding and Synthetic Aperture Techniques....Pages 181-190
Development of a Practical Nonlinear Imaging Technique for Transcranial Visualization of Blood Vessels....Pages 191-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Numerical Recovering of a Speed of Sound by the BC-Method in 3D....Pages 201-209
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Reconstruction of Blood Velocity Vector in Nonlinear Acoustical Tomography....Pages 211-221
Modern Acoustics, Based on Metamaterials....Pages 223-230
Thermoacoustical Tomography with Arrays Focusing by Reflection....Pages 231-242
Visualization Method of Acoustic Wave Propagation Based on the Sound Intensity Measurements....Pages 243-252
Dispersion Relations and Stress Dependencies of Acoustic Waves Travelling on a Chain of Point Masses Connected by Linear and Torsional Springs....Pages 253-265
Acoustic Image Reconstruction from Adaptive Microphone Array Signals Using Back Projection....Pages 267-278
A Simple Linear Model of Acoustic Imaging in Temporal and Directional Frequency Space....Pages 279-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Ultrasonic Quantification of Tumor Interstitial Fluid Pressure Through Scanning Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 291-298
Edge Diffraction Phenomena in High-Resolution Acoustical Imaging....Pages 299-312
Local Elastic Measurements with Focused Impulse Ultrasound....Pages 313-322
Color Dependence of Photoacoustic Micro Imaging....Pages 323-329
Sound Speed Measurement in Prostatic Cancer by Ultrasound Speed Microscope....Pages 331-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Design of a Matrix Transducer for Three-Dimensional Second Harmonic Transesophageal Echocardiography....Pages 341-349
2D Numerical Modeling for Transducers with Combined Pseudospectral and Finite Difference Methods: Application to High Frequency Linear Arrays....Pages 351-361
Beam-Forming Electrostrictive Matrix....Pages 363-369
MEMS Microphone Array and Signal Processor for Realtime Object Detection....Pages 371-382
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Multi-frequency Defect Selective Imaging via Nonlinear Ultrasound....Pages 385-398
Ultrasonic Imaging of Reaction Wood in Standing Trees....Pages 399-411
Defect Detection in Square Billet Using Phase Information of Longitudinal Waves....Pages 413-421
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Ocean Imaging by Acoustic Tomography Methods....Pages 425-435
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Seafloor Characterisation and Imaging Using Multibeam Sonar Data....Pages 437-445
An Objective Focussing Measure for Acoustically Obtained Images....Pages 447-454