| Micromachined ultrasonic transducers and their use for 2D and 3D imaging | p. 1 |
| Portable ultrasonic phased array system | p. 11 |
| A novel approach for ultrasonic imaging of sheet contours for hydroforming | p. 17 |
| A phased array system for the acquisition of ultrasonic RF-data up to 20 MHz | p. 25 |
| Computation and properties of the wide-band beam pattern | p. 33 |
| A fine pitch interconnection method for high frequency [lambda]-spaced linear arrays using MicroFlex technology | p. 43 |
| Design and construction of a blood flow detector probe for medical application | p. 49 |
| Synthetic aperture focusing technique for industrial applications | p. 57 |
| Interaction of short pulses of focused ultrasound with interfaces and plane-parallel objects | p. 69 |
| Third order elastic constant diffraction tomography | p. 77 |
| Characterization of the fatigue damage of advanced ceramic composites by scanning acoustic microscopy | p. 83 |
| Nonlinear acoustic imaging : fundamentals, methodology, and NDE-applications | p. 91 |
| Acoustic visualization of interface deterioration in adhesive bond joints | p. 99 |
| Ultrasonic imaging of thin materials using high resolution air-coupled transducers | p. 105 |
| Ultrasound thermography in NDE : principle and applications | p. 113 |
| Ultrasound diffusion for crack depth determination in concrete | p. 121 |
| Imaging of cracks and honeycombing in concrete elements | p. 129 |
| Rapid imaging of large steel plate structures using guided waves | p. 139 |
| Ultrasonic techniques for imaging and measurements in molten magnesium using clad buffer rods | p. 147 |
| Acoustic imaging with surface and lamb waves for NDE and material characterisation | p. 157 |
| Ultrasound activated speckle interferometry for defect-selective imaging in NDE : principle and applications | p. 165 |
| Electrical impedance matching of PVDF ultrasonic transducers | p. 169 |
| A new structure of SH wave electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) | p. 175 |
| An array implementation of the resonance spectroscopy method for adhesive bonding imaging | p. 185 |
| Investigation of structure and properties of immisible polymer blend by acoustic microscopy techniques | p. 193 |
| Measuring sound velocities and anisotropy of microstructural units of laminate composite materials by microacoustical technique | p. 199 |
| Ultrasonic imaging of rubber material and rubber metal interfaces | p. 207 |
| Evaluation of rubber-PVC blends structure and properties using scanning acoustic microscope | p. 215 |
| Acoustic microscopy, Brillouin scattering and laser-SAW technique for defect characterization in DLC films | p. 221 |
| Application of microacoustical technique to study elastic properties and microstructure of new generation of bulk metallic glasses | p. 229 |
| Imaging of carbon-fiber-reinforced (CFR) laminates microstructure by acoustic microscopy | p. 237 |
| Image reconstruction in transmission ultrasound tomography | p. 245 |
| Abberation correction in near field tomography | p. 255 |
| Fast simulation of ultrasonic B-mode images | p. 263 |
| An educational model and toolbox for acoustic tomographic imaging | p. 273 |
| Acoustic travel time tomography as a method to observe turbulent structures in the atmospheric boundary layer | p. 281 |
| Nonlinear acoustic methods for crack vision | p. 289 |
| Optical observation of shock wave propagation caused by a collapsing bubble | p. 297 |
| New informative possibilities of active-passive thermoacoustic tomography | p. 305 |
| Optical measurement and visualization of transient ultrasonic wave fields | p. 315 |
| Recovery of the shape and location of a rigid cylindrical body from experimental scattered acoustic field data | p. 323 |
| Effects, connected with passing of high frequency longitudinal wave through the film-sublayer system in the direction normal to the contact plane | p. 333 |
| Characterization and imaging of thin, highly oriented layers : theory and experiment | p. 341 |
| Nonlinear acoustic vision of bubble objects and flows | p. 349 |
| Split phase processing - a single image, resolution loss free method for ultrasound speckle reduction | p. 357 |
| Quantum acoustical imaging | p. 365 |
| Seismic imaging - prospects and challenges on all scales | p. 373 |
| Ultrasonic laboratory measurements on spherical samples - a tool for the investigation of seismic anisotropy in rocks | p. 383 |
| Seismic imaging ahead of the tunnel boring machine | p. 391 |
| The effect of cementation on the seismic properties of sandstone | p. 399 |
| Recent advances in quantitative acoustic microscopy | p. 407 |
| New developments in acoustic microscopy | p. 415 |
| Scanning acoustic microscopy covering a wide temperature range : SAM(T) | p. 423 |
| Fundamentals of spatio-temporal Fourier spectroscopy in quantitative acoustic microscopy | p. 431 |
| Ultrasound imaging of propagation of rapid and minute velocity in heart wall | p. 439 |
| New developments in ultrasonic adaptive focusing through the human skull : application to non-invasive brain therapy and imaging | p. 447 |
| Harmonic and subharmonic acoustic response of microbubble | p. 457 |
| Morphologic operators applied to breast tumour ultrasound image classification | p. 463 |
| Ultrasound blood flow imaging in carotid arteries before and after endarterectomy | p. 471 |
| Acoustic and mechanical properties of aortic aneurysms assessed by scanning acoustic microscopy | p. 479 |
| Real time images of local ultrasonic spectral parameters for tissue differentiation through wavelet transform | p. 485 |
| Ultrasonic sound speed microscope for biological tissue characterization driven by nanosecond pulse | p. 495 |
| Principle, applications and limitations of ultrasound elastography | p. 503 |
| A clinical ultrasound scanner developed for imaging the relative surface attenuation, reflectivity and profile of skin lesions | p. 511 |
| 3D simulations of elastic wave propagation in cortical bone | p. 519 |
| Ultrasonic imaging and characterization of accupuncture points in classical oriental medicine | p. 527 |
| Acoustic microscopy methods in a morphological study of the articular cartilage and subchondral bone | p. 535 |
| Assessment of bone properties using high resolution scanning acoustic microscopy | p. 541 |
| Quantitative ultrasonic tomography of long bones : distorted born iterative process | p. 549 |
| Imaging prostate brachytherapy seeds with pulse-echo ultrasound and vibro-acoustography | p. 555 |
| Combination of acoustic and optical microscopy for investigation of biological cell properties | p. 563 |
| Correlative fluorescence and acoustic microscopy in the study of cell volume regulation | p. 573 |
| Attenuation mapping of living cells at hypersonic frequencies | p. 579 |
| A Doppler viewpoint on microbubble destruction | p. 585 |
| Imaging and quantitative data acquisition of thinly and thickly sliced biological tissues with scanning acoustic microscopy | p. 591 |
| Ultrasonic diffraction tomography : multichannel circular antenna | p. 601 |
| Evaluation of split spectrum processing as a phase sensitive algorithm to enhance volume based registration | p. 607 |
| Application of an acoustic microscope for the assessment of dental cement microstructure and properties during the hardening process | p. 613 |
| Ultrasonic examination of hard tissues using Golay complementary series excitation | p. 619 |
| Ultrasound spiral computed tomography for differential diagnosis of breast tumors using a conventional ultrasound system | p. 627 |
| A new probe for accurate velocity measurements in axial transmission technique : application to cortical bone evaluation | p. 635 |
| Ultrasound based methods for monitoring of thermal therapies | p. 643 |
| Speckle reduction by summation of higher order harmonic images | p. 651 |
| Coded signals for interoperative registration of the human skull | p. 659 |
| A haptic system for virtual reality applications based on ultrasound elastography and electro-rheological fluids | p. 667 |
| Multi-frequency quantitative imaging of high contrast objects : a canonical approximation | p. 675 |
| Method to simulate pulse propagation and B-mode images with ultrasound contrast agents, reverberation and Bjerknes forces | p. 683 |
| A new approach to diffraction tomography | p. 691 |
| Ultrasonic modes in atomic force microscopy | p. 699 |
| Characterization of layered materials with near-field acoustic microscopy | p. 707 |
| Ultrasonic atomic force microscopy on spray dried ceramic powder | p. 715 |
| Surface and bulk investigation of materials with scanning microdeformation microscopy : what is really investigated? | p. 721 |
| Polymer elasticity analysis with atomic force acoustic microscopy | p. 729 |
| Recent advances in near field acoustics with resonating horns | p. 735 |
| How can ultrasound help with connecting friction and adhesion hysteresis at local scales? | p. 741 |
| Towards time-resolved dynamic atomic force microscopy | p. 749 |
| Fresnel diffraction measured by scanning force microscopy | p. 757 |
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