Acoustical Imaging

*Part 1: History of Acoustical Imaging. Imaging Acoustics and Acoustic Imaging; R.E. Green Jr. A Brief History of Medical Ultrasonics; J.P. Jones. Developments of Ultrasonic Measurement Technology for Acoustical Imaging; N. Chubachi. Ultrasound Computed Tomography: From the Past to the Future; R.M. Schmitt. History of Acoustical Imaging: A Brief Review of the early days of Ultrasonic QNDE at the Rockwell Science Center; B.R. Tittman. *Part 2: Biological and Medical Acoustical Imaging. Quantitative Ultrasound for Bone Properties; P. Laugier, et al. Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Micromeasurement of Elastomechanical Bone Properties - Comparison with Nanoidentation Results; J. Brandt, et al. Investigating Compact Bone Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Using Acoustic Microscopy; L.A. Denisova, et al. 2D Simulation of the Axial Transmission Technique on a Cortical Bone Plate; E. Bossy, et al. An Ultrasound System for the Diagnosis of Osteoporosis; J.M. Maia, et al. Cells as Seen with the Acoustic Microscope; J. Bereiter-Hahn, et al. Development of Three Dimensional Image Analysis System for Computer Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using Ultrasonic Echography; I. Akiyama, et al. Ultrasonic Images of Tissue Local Power Spectrum by Means of Wavelet Packets for Prostate Cancer Detection; L. Masotti, et al. Detecting Cardiac Allograft Rejection by Acoustic Microscopy; Y. Saijo, et al. Ultrasonic Measurement of Depth-Dependent Strains of Articular Cartilage in Compression; Y.P. Zheng, et al. A Research Platform for Diagnostic Ultrasound; R.M. Schmitt, et al. A Novel Method to Measure the Spatial Average Temporal Average Intensity (Isata) and Ultrasonic Power (W) in Medical Composite Ultrasonic Transducers; P. Acevedo, D. Das-Gupta. Prediction of Amplitude and Frequency Dependence of the Backscatter Coefficient in Cancellous Bone with an Autocorrelation Model; F. Padilla, et al. Investigation of the Surface Microstructure of the Polyamide-Hydroxyapatite and Polyethylene-Hydroxyapatite Bone Implants with Acoustic Microscopy Methods; R.Gr. Maev, et al. Multi-Step Compensation Technique for Ultrasound Tomography of Bone; E. Ouedraogo, et al. Influence of Fat Components and Tissue Preparation on the High Frequency Acoustic Properties; H. Sasaki, et al. Application of Short-Time Fourier Multi-Narrowband Analysis to In Vivo Human Skin Between 12 and 25 MHz; C. Fournier, et al. Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE) System: Development of Combined Transmission and Reflection Ultrasound with New Reconstruction Algorithms for Breast Imaging; P.J. Littrup, et al. *Part 3: Acoustic Microscopy. Ultrasonic Force Microscopy: Nanometer Scale Mechanical Contrast; B.D. Huey. Imaging of the Ferroelectric Domains Pattern in the Ultrasonic Piezo-Mode; M. Kopycinska, et al. A Comparison of the SAW Velocity for Thin Film Aluminum Nitride On Silicon By Line Focus Beam Acoustic Microscopy and Direct Transducer Measurements; F.S. Hickernell. Ultrasonic Time Resolved Measurements by the V(x) Method; S.A. Titov, et al. Phase Sensitive Acoustic Microscopy Image Quality Estimation by Volume Imaging in Anisotropic Media: Acoustic Microscopy; M. Pluta, W. Grill. Investigation of Elasto-Mechanical Properties of Alginate By Ultrasound Methods; A. Klemenz, et al. *Part 4: Physics and Mathematics. Reconstruction of Fine-Scale Structure of Acoustical Scatterer on Large-Scale Contrast Background; V.A. Burov, et al. Singular Spectrum Analysis Applied to 20 MHz Backscattered Ultrasound Signals from Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Phantoms; W.C.A. Pereira, et al. Novel Techniques in Ultrasonic Correlation Spectroscopy: Characterizing the Dynamics of Strongly Scattering Materials; M.L. Cowan, et al. The Impact of Loss on Ultrasound Propagation; S. Leeman, et al. The Modeling of Correlation-Tomography Reconstruction of Thermoacoustical Radiation Sources; V.A. Burov, et al. Configurational Classification of Stochastic Structures as a Way of Tissues Classification For Acoustical Tomography; V.A. Burov, E.L. Kim. Useful Metrics for Evaluation of Diffractive Energy Imaging; T.F. Garlick, et al. *Part 5: Nondestructive evaluations. Advancements in Ultrasonic Imaging for Materials Testing; B. Djordjevic. Acoustic Microscopic Characterization on Advanced Ceramic Composites; J. Hu, et al. Acoustical Imaging of "Kissing Debond" Regions at the Interfaces Of Adhesively Bonded Laminates; N.K. Batra. Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Acoustic Nonlinearities At an Interface with Poor Adhesive Bonding; B. O'Neill, et al. Ultrasonic Measurement of Liquid Flow at Elevated Temperature; D.R. Franca, et al. Evaluation of Shear Relaxation Time and Derived Parameters from Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements of CU(I) and Some Tetraalkyl Ammonium Salts in Binary Organic Mixtures to Study Various Structural Effects; P. Singh. Ultrasonic Imaging of Material Condition Using Advanced Simplified Ultrasonic CT; K.C. Kim, et al. Development of a Nondestructive Method for Ultrasonic Evaluation Of Adhesive Bond Joint Performance; E. Maeva, et al. Frequency Domain Filtering for Enhanced SAM Inspection of Microelectronic Components; J.C.P. KcKeon. *Part 6: Components and Systems. Matrix Arrays for the 21st Century; K. Erikson, et al. Optimization of Pulse-Echo Array Transducer System for Identification Of Specified Targets; P.C. Pederson, L. Wan. Air Coupled Ultrasonic Transducers: Design and Applications; W. Gerbhardt, et al. Virtual Biopsy by Means of Miniaturized Fiber Optics Ultrasonic Transducers; E. Biagi, et al. New Development of an Ultrasound Transmission Camera; O. Keitmann, et al. Time-Varying Nonlinear Diffraction Tomography-A New Form of Acoustical Imaging; W.S. Gan. Directivity Spectrum of an Apodized Ultrasound Transducer; V.L.S. Nantes Button, et al. Optimisation of Wide-Band Beam-Patterns by Means of A Joined Synthesis of Weighting Coefficients and Pulse Envelope; C. Parodi, A. Trucco. Lossy Mechanisms in Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers; M. Castillo, et al. Suppression of Edge Waves by Apodization of Wide Band Cylindrical Transducers; S.A. Titov, et al. Ultrasonic Fields of Clad Buffer Rods Imaging Probes; D.R. Franca, et al. *Part 7: Image Processing. Improving the Accuracy of Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound; M.P. Andre, et al. An Effect of Scatterer Size on Reflex Transmission Imaging; H.-D. Liang, et al. Increasing Frame Rate of Limited Diffraction Imaging System With Binary Code Exitations; J.-y. Lu, et al. Obstacle Detection by Three Dimensional Frontal Imaging with Laser Induced Breakdown; Y. Yasumuro, et al. A Modified Frontal 3-D Imaging for Intravascular Ultrasound With Sparse Synthetic Ring Array; X. Wu, et al. *Part 8: Underwater and Geopphysical Applications. Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy: Application to Petrophysical Studies of Reservoir Rocks; M. Prasad, et al. Acoustic Tomography and Wave Propagation in Natural Bubble Fields; S.G. Kargl, D. Rouseff.