In the course of the years the volumes in the Acoustical Imaging Series have developed to become well-known and appreciated reference works. Offering both a broad perspective on the state of the art in the field as well as an in-depth look at its leading edge research, this Volume 30 in the Series contains again an excellent collection of contributions, presented in five major categories:
Preface.
Part I BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
Performance of a Method to Standardize Breast Ultrasound Interpretation Using
Image Processing and Case-Based Reasoning.- High Resolution Ultrasonic Method
for 3D Fingerprint Recognizable Characteristics In Biometrics
Identification.- Ultrasonic Detection of Metastases in Dissected Lymph Nodes
of Cancer Patients.- Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Soft Tissue with
Ultrasound Vibrometry.- Vector Doppler Method Based on an Automatic
Transverse Angle Tracking Procedure.- Proposal for Blood-Flow Imaging by
Contrast Echo Using Counter-Crossed Beams.- Inverse Scattering Theory.-
Inverse Scattering Results.- Multiple Scattering Contribution to Trabecular
Bone Backscatter.- ULA-OP: A Fully Open Ultrasound Imaging/Doppler System .-
The Use of Quality Metrics in Ultrasonic Strain Imaging.- Applying Echoes
Mean Frequency Shift for Attenuation Imaging in Tissue.
Part II ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY
Visualization of Microvessels in Skin by Three-Dimensional Ultrasound
Microscope .- Technique for Visualization of Anisotropy of Biomedical
Tissue by Shear Wave Acoustic Microscopy.- High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging
of Cartilage-Bone Complex.- Ultra-High Resolution Thin Film Thickness
Delineation Using Reflection Phase-Sensitive Acoustic Microscopy.- Signal
Processing for Time-Lapse Cell Imaging with Vector-Colntrast Scanning
Acoustic Microscopy.- Acoustic Microscopy Study of Properties and
Microstructure of Synthetic and Natural Fiber Composite Materials.
Part III non-destructive evaluation
A Defect Localization Procedure Based on Warped Lamb Waves.- Second Harmonic
Detection Generated from Fastened Bolt.- In-line Ultrasonic Array System for
Monitoring Dynamic of Coating Forming by Cold Spray Process.- An
Experimental Comparison of Thermographic and Acoustical Methods for
Evaluation of Layered Structures.- Acoustic Microscope Inspection
ofCylindrical Butt Laser Welds.
Part IV systems analysis
Intracardiac Forward-Looking Ultrasound Imaging Catheters Using Capacitive
Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers.- Conformal Ultrasound Imaging System.-
Air-Coupled Vibrometry.- A Hybrid Kirchoff Migration Direction-of-Arrival
Method for Underwater Imaging of Complex Objects Using Sparse Sensor Arrays.-
Multi-View Acoustic Sizing and Classification of Individual Fish.- Acoustic
Image Models for Obstacle Avoidance with Forward-Looking Sonar.- Underwater
Acoustical Imaging and Sensing Systems for Homing, Docking, Navigation and
Collision Avoidance.
Part V signal analysis and image processing
Resolving the Location of Acoustic Point Sources Scattered Due to the
Presence of a Skull Phantom.- Reflection and Scattering of Acoustical Waves
from a Discontinuity in Absorption.- Automatic Regions of Interest
Segmentation for Computer Aided Classification of Prostate TRUS Images.-
Determination of B/A of Biological Media by Measuring and Modeling Nonlinear
Distortion of Pulsed Acoustic Wave in Two-Layer System of Media.- A
Consideration of Multi-Dimensional Simulation of Nonlinear Acoustic Wave
Propagation Using the CIP Method.- A Study of Similarity Measures for In Vivo
3D Ultrasound Volume Registration.- Image Quality Improvement Performance
Using the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique Data.- Expectation
Maximization for Joint Deconvolution and Statistics Estimation.- Particle
Swarm Optimization for In Vivo 3D Ultrasound Volume Registration.- Gauge
Theory Formulation of Acoustical Imaging.- High Resolution Pulse Compression
Imaging Using Super Resolution FM-Chirp Correlation Method (SCM) .- Medical
Ultrasound Image Deconvolution.- Numerical and Physical Modeling of
Tomography Process Based on Third-Order Nonlinear Acoustical Effects.
EPILOGUE
Subject Index
Author Index
