Acoustical Imaging

1. Novel Ultrasound Tomograph for Anatomical Inspection
Julien Rouyer, Philippe Lasaygues, Serge Mensah

2. High Frame-Rate Imaging Applied to Quasi-static Elastography
Alessandro Ramalli, Enrico Boni, Olivier Basset, Christian Cachard, Piero Tortoli

3. Plane Wave Pulse-Echo Ultrasound Diffraction Tomography with a Fixed Linear Transducer Array
Martin F. Schiffner, Georg Schmitz

4. Advanced Ultrasonic Tomograph of Children’s Bones
Philippe Lasaygues, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Régine Guillermin, Valérie Kaftandjian, Jean-Philippe Berteau, Martine Pithioux, Philippe Petit

5. 3D Simulation of Ultrasound in the Ultra-Distal Human Radius
Jonathan J. Kaufman, Gangming Luo, Robert S. Siffert

6. Ultrasonic Evaluation of Deeply Located Trabecular Bones – Preliminary Results
Lucyna Cieślik, Jerzy Litniewski

7. Detection of Reflux in Jugular and Vertebral Veins Through Directional Multigate Quality Doppler Profiles
Leonardo Forzoni, Sandra Morovic, Paolo Semplici, Massino Corsi, Stefano Ricci, Piero Tortoli

8. Combined B-Mode and Multigate Spectral Doppler-Mode Imaging for Flow-Mediated Dilation Investigation
Lorenzo Francalanci, Carlo Palombo, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Giacomo Bini, Luca Bassi, Piero Tortoli

9. Microcapsules: Reverse Sonoporation and Long-lasting, Safe Contrast
Steven Wrenn, Stephen Dicker, Eleanor Small, Abdelouahid Maghnouj, Stephan A. Hahn, Michał Mleczko, Karin Hensel, Georg Schmitz

10. Influence of Microbubble Shell Chemistry on the Destruction Threshold of Ultrasound Contrast Agent Microbubbles
Michał Mleczko, Stephen M. Dicker, Steven P. Wrenn, Georg Schmitz

11. Numerical Ray-Tracing in Full Angle Spatial Compounding
Andreas Koch, Ingo Koch, Christian Hansen, Reinhard Lerch, Helmut Ermert

12. An Automatic Method for Measurements of Arterial Intima-Media Thickness Using Ultrasonic B-Mode Data
Magnus Cinthio, Åsa Rydén Ahlgren, Tomas Jansson, Tobias Nilsson, Kjell Lindström, Hans W. Persson

13. Statistical Properties of Echosignal Obtained from Human Dermis In Vivo
Hanna Piotrzkowska, Jerzy Litniewski, Andrzej Nowicki, Elżbieta Szymańska

14. Ultrasound Background Cancellation Based on Time-Varying Synthesis
Jose Juan Mijares-Chan, Gabriel Thomas

15. Optimization in the Multi-element Synthetic Transmit Aperture Method for Ultrasound Imaging
Yuriy Tasinkevych, Ihor Trots, Andrzej Nowicki

16. Coded Excitation with Directivity Correction in Synthetic Aperture Imaging System
Ihor Trots, Yuriy Tasinkevych, Andrzej Nowicki

17. Sound Field Directivity Correction in Synthetic Aperture Algorithm for Medical Ultrasound
Yuriy Tasinkevych, Ziemowit Klimonda, Marcin Lewandowski, Andrzej Nowicki

18. Enhancing Tissue Attenuation Estimation from Backscattered Ultrasound Using Spatial Compounding and Synthetic Aperture Techniques
Ziemowit Klimonda, Jerzy Litniewski, Andrzej Nowicki

19. Development of a Practical Nonlinear Imaging Technique for Transcranial Visualization of Blood Vessels
Jeffrey Sadler, Eugene Malyarenko, Kiyanoosh Shapoori, Roman Gr. Maev

20. Numerical Recovering of a Speed of Sound by the BC-Method in 3D
Leonid Pestov, Victoria Bolgova, Alexandr Danilin

21. Reconstruction of Blood Velocity Vector in Nonlinear Acoustical Tomography
Valentin A. Burov, Oleg V. Matveev, Semen N. Evtukhov, Olga D. Rumyantseva

22. Modern Acoustics, Based on Metamaterials
Woon S. Gan

23. Thermoacoustical Tomography with Arrays Focusing by Reflection
Valentin A. Burov, Konstantin V. Dmitriev, Semen N. Evtukhov, Olga D. Rumyantseva

24. Visualization Method of Acoustic Wave Propagation Based on the Sound Intensity Measurements
Stefan Weyna

25. Dispersion Relations and Stress Dependencies of Acoustic Waves Travelling on a Chain of Point Masses Connected by Linear and Torsional Springs
Mieczysław Pluta, Umar Amjad, Hermann Klinghammer, Diwaker Jha, Khurram Tarar, Wolfgang Grill

26. Acoustic Image Reconstruction from Adaptive Microphone Array Signals Using Back Projection
Kyohei Mizutani, Masanori Sugimoto, Hiromichi Hashizume

27. A Simple Linear Model of Acoustic Imaging in Temporal and Directional Frequency Space
Toshio Ito, Masanori Sugimoto, Hiromichi Hashizume

28. Ultrasonic Quantification of Tumor Interstitial Fluid Pressure Through Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
Ralph Pflanzer, Amit Shelke, Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn, Matthias Hofmann

29. Edge Diffraction Phenomena in High-Resolution Acoustical Imaging
Jin Wen Ding, Vadim Moiseevich Levin, Yulia Stepanovna Petronyuk

30. Local Elastic Measurements with Focused Impulse Ultrasound
Alexandr A. Goryunov, Vadim M. Levin, Yulia S. Petronyuk, Konstantin V. Zakutailov

31. Color Dependence of Photoacoustic Micro Imaging
Yoshifumi Saijo, Hideyuki Koike, Takuya Izumi, Yusuke Miida, Yuji Matsuura, Naohiro Hozumi

32. Sound Speed Measurement in Prostatic Cancer by Ultrasound Speed Microscope
Hideki Tanoue, Youji Urata, Yoshihiro Hagiwara, Yoshifumi Saijo

33. Design of a Matrix Transducer for Three-Dimensional Second Harmonic Transesophageal Echocardiography
Sandra Blaak, Paul L. M. J. Neer, Christian Prins, Johan G. Bosch, Charles T. Lancée, Antonius F. W. Steen, Nico Jong

34. 2D Numerical Modeling for Transducers with Combined Pseudospectral and Finite Difference Methods: Application to High Frequency Linear Arrays
Axel Guiroy, Dominique Certon, Philippe Boy, Marc Lethiecq, Franck Levassort

35. Beam-Forming Electrostrictive Matrix
Eugene Danicki, Yuriy Tasinkevych

36. MEMS Microphone Array and Signal Processor for Realtime Object Detection
Yasushige Maeda, Masanori Sugimoto, Hiromichi Hashizume

37. Multi-frequency Defect Selective Imaging via Nonlinear Ultrasound
Igor Solodov, Gerd Busse

38. Ultrasonic Imaging of Reaction Wood in Standing Trees
Loic Brancheriau, Mohammad Ali Saadat-Nia, Philippe Gallet, Philippe Lasaygues, Kambiz Pourtahmasi, Valerie Kaftandjian

39. Defect Detection in Square Billet Using Phase Information of Longitudinal Waves
Tadashi Ebihara, Yoko Norose, Hideto Mitsui, Koichi Mizutani

40. Ocean Imaging by Acoustic Tomography Methods
Valentin A. Burov, Alisa V. Prudnikova, Sergei N. Sergeev, Andrey S. Shurup

41. Seafloor Characterisation and Imaging Using Multibeam Sonar Data
Zbigniew Łubniewski, Krzysztof Bruniecki

42. An Objective Focussing Measure for Acoustically Obtained Images
Krzysztof Czarnecki, Marek Moszyński, Mirosław Rojewski

Keywords: Physics, Acoustics, Imaging / Radiology, Engineering Acoustics, Ultrasound, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Spectroscopy and Microscopy