Acoustical Imaging

properties of immisible polymer blend by acoustic microscopy techniques.- 26. Measuring sound velocities and anisotropy of microstructural units of laminate composite materials by microacoustical technique.- 27. Ultrasonic imaging of rubber material and rubber metal interfaces.- 28. Evaluation of rubber-PVC blends structure and properties using scanning acoustic microscope.- 29. Acoustic microscopy, Brillouin scattering and laser-SAW technique for defect characterization in DLC films.- 30. Application of microacoustical technique to study elastic properties and microstructure of new generation of bulk metallic glasses.- 31. Imaging of carbon-fiber-reinforced (CFR) laminates microstructure by acoustic microscopy.- 32. Image reconstruction in transmission ultrasound tomography.- 33. Abberation correction in near fiield tomography.- 34. Fast simulation of ultrasonic B-mode images.- 35. An educational model and toolbox for acoustic tomographic imaging.- 36. Acoustic travel time tomography as a method to observe turbulent structures in the atmospheric boundary layer.- 37. Nonlinear acoustic methods for crack vision.- 38. Optical observation of shock wave propagation caused by a collapsing bubble.- 39. New informative possibilities of active-passive thermoacoustic tomography.- 40. Optical measurement and visualization of transient ultrasonic wave fields.- 41. Recovery of the shape and location of a rigid cylindrical body from experimental scattered acoustic field data.- 42. Effects, connected with passing of high frequency longitudinal wave through the film-sublayer system in the direction normal to the contact plane.- 43. Characterization and imaging of thin, highly oriented layers: Theory and experiment.- 44. Nonlinear acoustic vision of bubble objects and flows.- 45. Split phase processing - a single image, resolution loss free method for ultrasound speckle reduction.- 46. Quantum acoustical imaging.- Seismic Imaging.- 47. Seismic imaging - prospects and challenges on all scales.- 48. Ultrasonic laboratory measurements on spherical samples - a tool for the investigation of seismic anisotropy in rocks.- 49. Seismic imaging ahead of the tunnel boring machine.- Acoustic Microscopy.- 50. The effect of cementation on the seismic properties of sandstone.- 51. Recent advances in quantitative acoustic microscopy.- 52. New developments in acoustic microscopy.- 53. Scanning acoustic microscopy covering a wide temperature range: SAM(T).- 54. Fundamentals of spatio-temporal Fourier spectroscopy in quantitative acoustic microscopy.- Medical & Biological Imaging.- 55. Ultrasound imaging of propagation of rapid and minute velocity in heart wall.- 56. New developments in ultrasonic adaptive focusing through the human skull: Application to non-invasive brain therapy and imaging.- 57. Harmonic and subharmonic acoustic response of microbubble.- 58. Morphologic operators applied to breast tumour ultrasound image classification.- 59. Ultrasound blood flow imaging in carotid arteries before and after endarterectomy.- 60. Acoustic and mechanical properties of aortic aneurysms assessed by scanning acoustic microscopy.- 61. Real time images of local ultrasonic spectral parameters for tissue differentiation through wavelet transform.- 62. Ultrasonic sound speed microscope for biological tissue characterization driven by nanosecond pulse.- 63. Principle, applications and limitations of ultrasound elastography.- 64. A clinical ultrasound scanner developed for imaging the relative surface attenuation, reflectivity and profile of skin lesions.- 65. 3D simulations of elastic wave propagation in cortical bone.- 66. Ultrasonic imaging and characterization of accupuncture points in classical oriental medicine.- 67. Acoustic microscopy methods in a morphological study of the articular cartilage and subchondral bone.- 68. Assessment of bone properties using high resolution scanning acoustic microscopy.- 69. Quantitative ultrasonic tomography of long bones: Distorted born iterative process.- 70. Imaging prostate brachytherapy seeds with pulse-echo ultrasound and vibroacoustography.- 71. Combination of acoustic and optical microscopy for investiagation of biological cell properties.- 72. Correlative fluorescence and acoustic microscopy in the study of cell volume regulation.- 73. Attenuation mapping of living cells at hypersonic frequencies.- 74. A Doppler viewpoint on microbubble destruction.- 75. Imaging and quantitative data acquisition of thinly and thickly sliced biological tissues with scanning acoustic microscopy.- 76. Ultrasonic diffraction tomography: Multichannel circular antenna.- 77. Evaluation of split spectrum processing as a phase sensitive algorithm to enhance volume based registration.- 78. Application of an acoustic microscope for the assessment of dental cement microstructure and properties during the hardening process.- 79. Ultrasonic examination of hard tissues using Golay complementary series excitation.- 80. Ultrasound spiral computed tomography for differential diagnosis of breast tumors using a conventional ultrasound system.- 81. A new probe for accurate velocity measurements in axial transmission technique: Application to cortical bone evaluation.- 82. Ultrasound based methods for monitoring of thermal therapies.- 83. Speckle reduction by summation of higher order harmonic images.- 84. Coded signals for interoperative registration of the human skull.- 85. A haptic system for virtual reality applications based on ultrasound elastography and electro-rheological fluids.- 86. Multi-frequency quantitative imaging of high contrast objects: A canonical annroximation.- 87. Method to simulate pulse propagation and B-mode images with ultrasound contrast agents, reverberation and Bjerknes forces.- 88. A new approach to diffraction tomography.- Near Field Imaging.- 89. Ultrasonic modes in atomic force microscopy.- 90. Characterization of layered materials with near-field acoustic microscopy.- 91. Ultrasonic atomic force microscopy on spray dried ceramic powder.- 92. Surface and bulk investigation of materials with scanning microdeformation microscopy: What is really investigated?.- 93. Polymer elasticity analysis with atomic force acoustic microscopy.- 94. Recent advances in near field acoustics with resonating horns.- 95. How can ultrasound help with connecting friction and adhesion hysteresis at local scales?.- 96. Towards time-resolved dynamic atomic force microscopy.- 97. Fresnel diffraction measured by scanning force microscopy.- Author Index.