Part I: Advanced Systems and Techniques. Non-Coherent Synthetic Aperture Imaging; P. Alais, et al. Imaging with a 2D Transducer Hybrid Array; K. Erikson, et al. Inferring 3-Dimensional Animal Motions from a Set of 1-Dimensional Multibeam Returns; J. Jaffe. Development of an Ultrasonic Focusing System Based on the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique; P. Acevedo, et al. High-Resolution Process in Ultrasonic Reflection Tomography; P. Lasaygues, et al. Spatial Coherence and Beamformer Gain; J.C. Bamber, et al. A New Approach for Calculating Wideband Fields; S. Leeman, et al. High-Resolution Acoustic Arrays Using Optimum Symmetrical-Number-System Processing; D. Jenn, et al. Frequency Weighting of Distributed Filtered Backward Propagation in Acoustic Tomography; S. Lockwood, H. Lee. Exact Solution of Two-Dimensional Monochromatic Inverse Scattering Problem and Secondary Sources Space Spectrum; V.A. Burov, et al. Hausdorff Moments Method of Acoustical Imaging; K.S. Peat, Y.V. Kurylev. A Generlized Inversion of the Helmholtz Equation and Its Application to Acoustical Imaging; J.P. Jones, S. Leeman. Real Time Processing of the Radiofrequency Echo Signal for On-Line Spectral Maps; E. Biagi, et al. Reconstruction of Inner Field by Marchenko-Newton-Rose Method and Solution of Multi-Dimensional Inverse Scattering Problem; V.A. Burov, et al. RF Ultrasound Echo Decomposition Using Singular-Spectrum Analysis; C.D. Maciel, W.C. de Albuquerque Pereira. High-Performance Computing in Real-Time Ultrasonic Imaging; D.F. Garcia Nocetti, et al. Causality Revisited; S. Leeman, et al. Resolution Analysis of Acoustic Tomographic Imaging with Finite-Size Apertures Based on Spatial-Frequency Coverage; S. Lockwood, H. Lee. Radiation Force Doppler Effects on Contrast Agents; P. Tortoli, et al. B-Mode Speckle Texture: The Effect of Spatial Coherence; J.C. Bamber, et al. Extending the Bandwidth of the Pyramidal Detector; L.R. Sahagun, et al. Part II: Microscopy and Nondestructive Evaluation. The Use of a Reference-Beam Detector Applied to the Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscope; M. Cywiak, et al. Acoustic Microscopy Evaluation of Endothelial Cells Modualated by Fluid Shear Stress; Y. Saijo, et al. Ultrasound Imaging of Human Teeth Using a Desktop Scanning Acoustic Microscope; Y.P. Zheng, et al. The Acoustic Parameters Measurement by the Doppler Scanning Acoustic Microscope; R.G. Maev, S.A. Titov. Quantitative Contact Spectroscopy by Atomic-Force Acoustic Microscopy; U. Rabe, et al. Double Focus Technique for Simultaneous Measurement of Sound Velocity and Thickness of Thin Samples Using Time-Resolved Acoustic Microscopy; V. Hanel, B. Kleffner. A New Method for 3-D Velocity Vector Measurement Using 2-D Phased Array Probe; T. Shiina, N. Nitta. Acoustic Velocity Profiling of a Scattering Medium: Simulated Results; M.A. Rivera, Cardona, et al. Ultrasonic Velocity Measurement in Viscoelastic Material Using the Wavelet Transform; E. Moreno, et al. An Ultrasonic Circular Aperture Technique to Measure Elastic Constants of Fiber Reinforced Composite; S.A. Nielsen, et al. Application of Heat Source Model and Green's Function Approach to NDE of Surface Defects; T. Hoshimiya. Determination of Bonding Properties in Layered Metal Silicon Systems Using Sezawa Wave Modes; A. Pageler, et al. Integral Approximation Method for Calculating Ultrasonic Beam Propagation; B. O'Neill, R.Gr. Maev. Elastic Stress Influence on the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves Through Two-Layered Periodic Dielectric Structures; G.V. Morozov, et al. Part III: Biomedical Applications. A New System for Quantitative Ultrasonic Breast Imaging of Acoustic and Elastic Parameters; M. Krueger, et al. Determination and Evaluation of the Surface Region of Breast Tumors Using Ultrasonic Echography; X. Cheng, et al. Determination of Ultrasound Backscatter Level of Vascular Structures, with Application to Arterial Plaque Classification; P.C. Pedersen, Z. Cakareski. Investigation of the Micro Bubble Size Distribution in the Extracorporeal Blood Circulation; G. Dietrich, et al. A Method for Detectin Echoes from Microbubble Contrast Agents Based on Time Variance; W. Wilkening, et al. Analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Echo Signals for Characterization of Vessel Wall Properties; W. Schmidt, et al. In Vivo Study of the Influence of Gravity on Cortical and Cancellous Bone Velocity; PP. Antich, et al. Ultrasound Contrast Imaging of Prostate Tumors; F. Forsberg, et al. High Resolution Estimation of Axial and Transversal Bloodflow with a 50 MHZ Pulsed Wave Doppler System for Dermatology; M. Vogt, et al. Diffraction Tomography Breast Imaging System: Patient Image Reconstruction and Analysis; H.S. Janee, et al. Calibration of the URTURIP Technique; B. Migeon, et al. Studies of Bone Biophysics Using Ultrasound Velocity; S. Mehta, et al. Imaging of the Tissue Elasticity Based on Ultrasonic Displacement and Strain Measurements; Y. Yamashita, M. Kubota. System Independent in VIVO Estimation of Acoustical Attenuation and Relative Backscattering Coefficient of Human Tissue; T. Gaertner, et al. Ultrasound Images of Small Tissue Structures Free of Speckle; W. Tobacman, et al. Optimization of Non-Uniform Arrays for Farfield Broadside Beamforming; R.Y. Chiao. Hyperthermia Therapy Using Acoustic Phase Conjugation; P. Roux, et al. Ultrasonic Broadband Fiber Optic Source for Non Destructive Evaluation and Clinical Diagnosis; E. Biagi, et al. A Study of Signal-to-Noise Ratio of the Fourier Method for Construction of High Frame Rate Images; J. Lu.
