Preface Part I BIOMEDICAL IMAGING Performance of a Method to Standardize Breast Ultrasound Interpretation Using Image Processing and Case-Based Reasoning M. Andre, M. Galperin, A. Berry, H. Ojeda-Fournier, M. O'Boyle, L. Olson, C. Comstock, A. Taylor, M. Ledgerwood High Resolution Ultrasonic Method for 3D Fingerprint Recognizable Characteristics In Biometrics Identification R.Gr. Maev, E.Yu. Bakulin, A. Maeva, F. Severin Ultrasonic Detection of Metastases in Dissected Lymph Nodes of Cancer Patients E.J. Feleppa, J. Mamou, J. Machi, M. Hata, A. Coron, E. Yanagihara, P. Laugier Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Soft Tissue with Ultrasound Vibrometry I. Nenadich, M. Bernal, J. Greenleaf Vector Doppler Method Based on an Automatic Transverse Angle Tracking Procedure A. Dallai, E. Boni, L. Francalanci, P. Tortoli Proposal for Blood-Flow Imaging by Contrast Echo Using Counter-Crossed Beams T. Eura, K. Yoshida, Y. Watanabe, T. Takayasu, K. Nakamura, I. Akiyama Inverse Scattering Theory J. Wiskin, D. Borup, S. Johnson Inverse Scattering Results J. Wiskin, D. Borup, K. Callahan, Y. Parisky, J. Smith, M. Andre, S. Johnson Multiple Scattering Contribution to Trabecular Bone Backscatter J. Wojcik, J. Litniewski, A. Nowicki ULA-OP: A Fully Open Ultrasound Imaging/Doppler System S. Ricci, L. Bassi, A. Cellai, A. Ramalli, F. Guidi, P. Tortoli The Use of Quality Metrics in Ultrasonic Strain Imaging A. Gee, G. Treece, L. Chen, R. Prager Applying Echoes Mean Frequency Shift for Attenuation Imaging in Tissue J. Litniewski, Z. Klimonda, A. Nowicki Part II ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPYVisualization of Microvessels in Skin by Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Microscope Y. Saijo, K. Kobayashi, N. Hozumi, A. Tanaka, S. Sakai Technique for Visualization of Anisotropy of Biomedical Tissue by Shear Wave Acoustic Microscopy B.R. Tittmann, C. Miyasaka, E. Maeva, R.Gr. Maev High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging of Cartilage-Bone Complex Y. Hagiwara, Y. Saijo, A. Ando, K. Kobayashi, A. Tanaka, N. Hozumi, K. Hatori, E. Itoi Ultra-High Resolution Thin Film Thickness Delineation Using Reflection Phase-Sensitive Acoustic Microscopy E.A. Mohamed, A. Kamanyi, M. von Buttlar, R. Wannemacher, K. Hillmann, W. Ngwa, W. Grill Signal Processing for Time-Lapse Cell Imaging with Vector-Colntrast Scanning Acoustic Microscopy M. von Buttlar, E.A. Mohamed, W. Grill Acoustic Microscopy Study of Properties and Microstructure of Synthetic and Natural Fiber Composite Materials I. Severina, J. Sadler, E.Y. Maeva Part III NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION A Defect Localization Procedure Based on Warped Lamb Waves L. De Marchi, A. Marzani, S. Caporale, N. Speciale Second Harmonic Detection Generated from Fastened Bolt M. Fukuda, K. Imano In-line Ultrasonic Array System for Monitoring Dynamic of Coating Forming by Cold Spray Process M. Lubrick, S. Titov, V. Leshchynsky, R.Gr. Maev An Experimental Comparison of Thermographic and Acoustical Methods for Evaluation of Layered Structures R.Gr. Maev, D. Gavrilov, G. Ghodsi, E. Maeva Acoustic Microscope Inspection of Cylindrical Butt Laser Welds R.Gr. Maev, F. Severin Part IV SYSTEMS ANALYSIS Intracardiac Forward-Looking Ultrasound Imaging Catheters Using Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers A. Nikoozadeh, I.O. Wygant, D.-S., Lin, O. Oralkan, K. Thomenius, A. Dentinger, D. Wildes, G. Akopyan, K. Shivkumar, A. Mahajan, D.N. Stephens, M. O'Donnell, D. Sahn, P.T. Khuri-Yakub Conformal Ultrasound Imaging System R.S. Singh, M.O. Culjat, M. Lee, D.B. Bennett, S. Natarjan, B.P. Cox, E.R. Brown, W.S. Grundfest, H. Lee Air-Coupled Vibrometry D. Doring, I. Solodov, G. Busse A Hybrid Kirchoff Migration Direction-of-Arrival Method for Underwater Imaging of Complex Objects Using Sparse Sensor Arrays J.-F. Dord, C. Farhat Multi-View Acoustic Sizing and Classification of Individual Fish P.L.D. Roberts, J.S. Jaffe Acoustic Image Models for Obstacle Avoidance with Forward-Looking Sonar T. Masek, M. Kolsch Underwater Acoustical Imaging and Sensing Systems for Homing, Docking, Navigation and Collision Avoidance H. Lee Part V SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND IMAGE PROCESSING Solving the Location of Acoustic Point Sources Scattered Due to the Presence of a Skull Phantom J. Sadler, K. Shapoori, E. Malyarenko, A. DiCarlo, J. Dech, F. Severin, R.Gr. Maev Reflection and Scattering of Acoustical Waves from a Discontinuity in Absorption J. Jones, S. Leeman, E. Nolan, D. Lee Automatic Regions of Interest Segmentation for Computer Aided Classification of Prostate TRUS Images M. Scebran, A. Palladini, S. Maggio, L. De Marchi, N. Speciale Determination of B/A of Biological Media by Measuring and Modeling Nonlinear Distortion of Pulsed Acoustic Wave in Two-Layer System of Media T. Kujawska, J. Wojcik, A. Nowicki A Consideration of Multi-Dimensional Simulation of Nonlinear Acoustic Wave Propagation Using the CIP Method M. Konno, K. Okubo, T. Tsuchiya, N. Tagawa A Study of Similarity Measures for In Vivo 3D Ultrasound Volume Registration U.Z. Ijaz, R.W. Prager, A.H. Gee, G.M. Treece Image Quality Improvement Performance Using the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique Data P. Acevedo, A. Duran, E. Rubio Expectation Maximization for Joint Deconvolution and Statistics Estimation M. Alessandrini, A. Palladini, L. De Marchi, N. Speciale Particle Swarm Optimization for In Vivo 3D Ultrasound Volume Registration U.Z. Ijaz, R.W. Prager, A.H. Gee, G.M. Treece Gauge Theory Formulation of Acoustical Imaging W.S. Gan High Resolution Pulse Compression Imaging Using Super Resolution FM-Chirp Correlation Method (SCM) M. Fujiwara, K. Okubo, N. Tagawa Medical Ultrasound Image Deconvolution H.-C. Shin, R. Prager, H. Gomersall, N. Kingsbury, G. Treece, A. Gee Numerical and Physical Modeling of Tomography Process Based on Third-Order Nonlinear Acoustical Effects V.A. Burov, A.A. Shmelev, O.D. Rumyantseva EPILOGUE Professor Glen Wade H. Lee Subject Index Author Index
