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Front matter
Part I / Advanced Systems and Techniques
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Noncoherent Synthetic Aperture Imaging
Pierre Alais, Pierre Cervenka, Pascal Challande and Valérie Lesec
9-20
Imaging with a 2D Transducer Hybrid Array
Ken Erikson, Jason Stockwell, Allen Hairston, Gary Rich and John Marciniec, et al.
21-26
Inferring 3-dimensional animal motions from a set of 1-dimensional multibeam returns
Jules Jaffe
27-34
Development of an Ultrasonic Focusing System Based on the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique
P. Acevedo, J. Juárez and S. Rodríguez
35-41
High-Resolution Process in Ultrasonic Reflection Tomography
P. Lasaygues, J.P. Lefebvre and M. Bouvat-Merlin
43-48
Spatial Coherence and Beamformer Gain
Jeffrey Bamber, Ronald Mucci and Donald Orofino
49-56
A New Approach for Calculating Wideband Fields
S. Leeman, A. Healey and J. Weight
57-64
High-Resolution Acoustic Arrays Using Optimum Symmetrical-Number-System Processing
David Jenn, Phillip Pace and John Powers
65-72
Frequency Weighting of Distributed Filtered Backward Propagation in Acoustic Tomography
Stephanie Lockwood and Hua Lee
73-78
Exact Solution of Two-Dimensional Monochromatic Inverse Scattering Problem and Secondary Sources Space Spectrum
V.A. Burov, S.A. Morozov, O.D. Rumiantseva, E.G. Sukhov and S.N. Vecherin, et al.
79-86
Hausdorff Moments Method of Acoustical Imaging
Keith Peat and Yaroslav Kurylev
87-93
A Generalized Inversion of Helmholtz Equation and Its Application to Acoustical Imaging
Joie Jones and Sidney Leeman
95-100
Real Time Processing of the Radiofrequency Echo Signal for On-Line Spectral Maps
Elena Biagi, Marco Calzolai, Massimiliano Forzieri, Simona Granchi and Leonardo Masotti, et al.
101-106
Reconstruction of Inner Field By Marchenko-Newton-Rose Method and Solution of Multi-Dimensional Inverse Scattering Problem
V.A. Burov, S.A. Morozov and O.D. Rumiantseva
107-112
RF Ultrasound Echo Decomposition Using Singular-Spectrum Analysis
Carlos Maciel and Wagner de Albuquerque Pereira
113-120
High-Performance Computing in Real-Time Ultrasonic Imaging
D.F. García Nocetti, J. González, M.F. Casique, R. Ramírez and E. Hernández
121-125
Causality Revisited
Sidney Leeman, Joie Jones and Andrew Healey
127-134
Resolution Analysis of Acoustic Tomographic Imaging with Finite-Size Apertures Based on Spatial-Frequency Coverage
Stephanie Lockwood and Hua Lee
135-140
Radiation Force Doppler Effects on Contrast Agents
Piero Tortoli, Francesco Guidi, Emiliano Maione, Francesca Curradi and Vittorio Michelassi
141-146
B-Mode Speckle Texture: The Effect of Spatial Coherence
Jeffrey Bamber, Ronald Mucci, Donald Orofino and Karl Thiele
147-153
Extending the Bandwidth of the Pyramidal Detector
L.R. Sahagun, S. Isakson, F. Mendoza-Santoyo and G. Wade
Part II / Microscopy and Nondestructive Evaluation
155-156
The Use of a Reference-Beam Detector Applied to the Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscope
Moisés Cywiak, Cristina Solano, Glen Wade and S. Isakson
157-163
Acoustic Microscopy Evaluation of Endothelial Cells Modulated by Fluid Shear Stress
Yoshifumi Saijo, Hidehiko Sasaki, Hiroaki Okawai, Noriyuki Kataoka and Masaaki Sato, et al.
165-171
Ultrasound Imaging of Human Teeth Using a Desktop Scanning Acoustic Microscope
Y.P. Zheng, E.Yu. Maeva, A.A. Denisov and R.G. Maev
173-178
The Acoustic Parameters Measurement by the Doppler Scanning Acoustic Microscope
R. Maev and S. Titov
179-186
Quantitative Contact Spectroscopy by Atomic-Force Acoustic Microscopy
U. Rabe, E. Kester, V. Scherer and W. Arnold
187-192
Double Focus Technique for Simultaneous Measurement of Sound Velocity and Thickness of Thin Samples Using Time-Resolved Acoustic Microscopy
V. Hänel and B. Kleffner
193-199
A New Method for 3-D Velocity Vector Measurement Using 2-D Phased Array Probe
Tsuyoshi Shiina and Naotaka Nitta
201-206
Acoustic Velocity Profiling of a Scattering Medium: Simulated Results
Marissa Rivera Cardona, Wagner Pereira and João Machado
207-214
Ultrasonic Velocity Measurement in Viscoelastic Material Using the Wavelet Transform
Eduardo Moreno, Fabian García, Martha Castillo, Alejandro Sotomayor and Victor Castro, et al.
215-222
An Ultrasonic Circular Aperture Technique to Measure Elastic Constants of Fiber Reinforced Composite
S. Arnfred Nielsen, H. Toftegaard and P. Brøndsted
223-228
Application of Heat Source Model and Green’s Function Approach to NDE of Surface Defects
Tsutomu Hoshimiya
229-235
Determination of Bonding Properties in Layered Metal Silicon Systems Using Sezawa Wave Modes
A. Pageler, T. Blum, K. Kosbi, U. Scheer and S. Boseck
237-244
Integral Approximation Method for Calculating Ultrasonic Beam Propagation in Anisotropic Materials
Brian O’Neill and Roman Maev
245-252
Elastic Stress Influence on the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves Through Two-Layered Periodic Dielectric Structures
Gregory Morozov, Roman Maev and G. Drake
Part III / Biomedical Applications
253-259
A New System for Quantitative Ultrasonic Breast Imaging of Acoustic and Elastic Parameters
M. Krueger, A. Pesavento, H. Ermert, K. Hiltawsky and L. Heuser, et al.
261-271
Determination and Evaluation of the Surface Region of Breast Tumors Using Ultrasonic Echohraphy
Xiangyong Cheng, Iwaki Akiyama, Syuji Ogawa, Kouichi Itoh and Kiyoka Omoto, et al.
273-280
Determination of Ultrasound Backscatter Level of Vascular Structures, with Application to Arterial Plaque Classification
Peder Pedersen and Zeljko Cakareski
281-285
Investigation of the Micro Bubble Size Distribution in the Extracorporeal Blood Circulation
Georg Dietrich, Klaus Jenderka, Ulrich Cobet, Bernhard Kopsch and Albrecht Klemenz, et al.
287-294
A Method for Detecting Echoes from Microbubble Contrast Agents Based on Time Variance
Wilko Wilkening, John Lazenby and Helmut Ermert
295-300
Analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Echo Signals for Characterization of Vessel Wall Properties
Wolfram Schmidt, Mathias Niendorf, Detlef Maschke, Detlef Behrend and Klaus-Peter Schmitz, et al.
301-308
In Vivo Study of the Influence of Gravity on Cortical and Cancellous Bone Velocity
P Antich, S Mehta, M Daphtary, M Lewis and B Smith, et al.
309-316
Ultrasound Contrast Imaging of Prostate Tumors
F. Forsberg, M. Ismail, E. Hagen, D. Merton and J. Liu, et al.
317-324
High Resolution Estimation of Axial and Transversal Bloodflow with a 50 MHZ Pulsed Wave Doppler System for Dermatology
M. Vogt, H. Ermert, S. el Gammal, K. Kaspar and K. Hoffmann, et al.
325-333
Diffraction Tomography Breast Imaging System: Patient Image Reconstruction and Analysis
Helmar Janée, Michael André, Mariana Ysrael and Peter Martin
335-340
Calibration of the Urturip Technique
Bruno Migeon, Philippe Deforge and Pierre Marché
341-348
Studies of Bone Biophysics Using Ultrasound Velocity
S Mehta, P Antich, M Daphtary, M Lewis and B Smith, et al.
349-359
Imaging of the Tissue Elasticity Based on Ultrasonic Displacement and Strain Measurements
Yasuo Yamashita and Mitsuhiro Kubota
361-367
System Independent in Vivo Estimation of Acoustical Attenuation and Relative Back Scattering Coefficient of Human Tissue
Tilo Gaertner, Klaus Jenderka, Hans Heynemann, Mario Zacharias and Fank Heinicke
369-376
Ultrasound Images of Small Tissue Structures Free of Speckle
William Tobocman, Joseph Izatt and Nima Shokrollahi
377-384
Optimization of Non-Uniform Arrays for Farfield Broadside Beamforming
Richard Chiao
385-392
Hyperthermia Therapy Using Acoustic Phase
Philippe Roux, Michael Porter, Hee Song and William Kuperman
393-399
Ultrasonic Broadband Fiber Optic Source for Non Destructive Evaluation and Clinical Diagnosis
E. Biagi, F. Margheri, L. Masotti and M. Pieraccini
401-405
A Study of Signal-To-Noise Ratio of the Fourier Method for Construction of High Frame Rate Images
Jian-yu Lu
407-409
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