| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Acoustic Microscopy | p. 1 |
| Air-Coupled Imaging Method Applied to the Study and Conservation of Paintings | p. 3 |
| Study of Biomedical Specimens Using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy | p. 13 |
| Image Processing of Acoustic Microscopy Data to Estimate Textural Scales and Anistropy in Shales | p. 21 |
| Near-Field Acoustical Imaging Using Lateral Bending Mode of Atomic Force Microscope Cantilevers | p. 31 |
| Measurements of Parameters of Leaky Waves Using Ultrasonic Material Characterization System with Electronic Scanning | p. 43 |
| Application of an Acoustic Microscope for the Investigation of Embryonic Development in Quails Coturnix coturnix | p. 49 |
| Ultrasonic Characterization of the Biological Objects of Spherical or Cylindrical Shape Using an Acoustic Microscope | p. 57 |
| Osteoblast Adhesion of Breast Cancer Cells with Scanning Acoustic Microscopy | p. 65 |
| Measuring Cell Volume Regulation with Time Resolved Acoustic Microscopy | p. 73 |
| Fundamental Potential for Acoustic Microscopy Evaluation of Dental Tissues | p. 81 |
| Components and Systems | p. 89 |
| Performance Improvement of Algorithms Based on the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique | p. 91 |
| Ultra-Broadband Ultrasonic Imaging Using Bi-Layer Structure Probe | p. 101 |
| Development of a 40-MHz Annular Array | p. 111 |
| Measuring Phase of Vibration of Spheres in a Viscoelastic Medium Using Vibrometry | p. 119 |
| Acoustic Rhinometry (AR): An Alternative Method to Image Nasal Airway Geometry | p. 127 |
| A New High Frequency Ultrasound Skin Imaging System: Imaging Properties and Clinical in Vivo Results | p. 137 |
| Computed Tomography | p. 145 |
| Non-Invasive Breast Tissue Characterization Using Ultrasound Speed and Attenuation | p. 147 |
| Data Symmetries and their Use in Acoustic Diffraction Tomography | p. 155 |
| Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE): First Clinical Results | p. 173 |
| Full-Wave, Non-Linear, Inverse Scattering | p. 183 |
| High-Resolution 3-D Imaging and Tissue Differentiation with Transmission Tomography | p. 195 |
| Using Diffraction Tomography to Estimate Marine Animal Size | p. 207 |
| Breast Ductal Computer Phantom | p. 213 |
| Compound Quantitative Ultrasonic Tomography of Long Bones Using Wavelets Analysis | p. 223 |
| Data Redundancies in Reflectivity Tomography Using Offset Sources and Receivers | p. 231 |
| Biological and Medical Applications | p. 247 |
| Experimental Validation of the Spectral Fit Algorithm Using Tissue Mimicking Phantoms | p. 249 |
| Acoustical Imaging of Individual Microbubbles | p. 257 |
| Optimization of a Breast Mass Classifier for Computer-Aided Ultrasound Analysis | p. 267 |
| Ex Vivo Breast Tissue Imaging and Characterization Using Acoustic Microscopy | p. 279 |
| An Ultrasound Based System for Navigation and Therapy Control of Thermal Tumor Therapies | p. 289 |
| Classification of Thermally Ablated Tissue Using Diagnostic Ultrasound | p. 295 |
| High Frequency Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging of Solid Tumors in Mice | p. 301 |
| Study and Characterization of Subharmonic Emissions by Using Shaped Ultrasonic Driving Pulse | p. 307 |
| Volumetric Imaging Using Acoustical Holography | p. 317 |
| Recent Advances in Ultrasonic Tissue-Type Imaging of the Prostate | p. 331 |
| Diagnostic Performance of a Computer-Aided Image Analysis System for Breast Ultrasound | p. 341 |
| Clinical Experimentation of FEMMINA and RULES for Prostate and Breast Tumor Detection | p. 349 |
| Non-Destructive Evaluation | p. 359 |
| Measurements of Parameters of Leaky Waves Using Ultrasonic Material Characterization System with Electronic Scanning | p. 361 |
| Acoustic Imaging of Microstructure and Evaluation of the Adhesive's Physical, Mechanical and Chemical Properties Changes at Different Cure States | p. 367 |
| Application of Images when Evaluating Ultrasonic Examination: Results in Industrial Practice | p. 375 |
| Innovative Power Amplifier and Transducer Technologies for High Frequency, Broadband Sonar Arrays | p. 387 |
| Direct and Post-Compressed Sound Fields for Different Coded Excitations | p. 399 |
| Elastic Properties of Clay Minerals Determined by Atomic Force Acoustic Microscopy Technique | p. 409 |
| Physics and Mathematics | p. 417 |
| Three-Dimensional Acoustic Tissue Model: A Computational Tissue Phantom for Image Analyses | p. 419 |
| Quantum Acoustical Imaging | p. 427 |
| A Study of Pulse-Echo Image Formation Using Non-Quadratic Regularization with Speckle-Based Images | p. 435 |
| Analytical Solutions of the KDV-KZK Equation | p. 445 |
| Synthetic Aperture Focusing of Echographic Images by Means of Pulse Compression | p. 453 |
| Acoustical Imaging with Negative Refraction | p. 461 |
| Epilogue | p. 467 |
| Frederic L. Lizzi, Eng.Sc.D | p. 469 |
| Subject Index | p. 471 |
| Author Index | p. 475 |
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