| Keynote Papers. Mathematics and Physics of Acoustical Imaging |
| Transducers and Arrays |
| Nondestructive Evaluation. Geophysical and Underwater Ultrasonics |
| Microscopy and Microscanning |
| Scattering by Blood and Tissue |
| Medical and Biological Image Formation |
| Tissue Characterisation |
| Tissue Motion and Blood Flow |
| Elasticity Imaging |
| Hard Tissues |
| Novel and Emerging Methods |
| Author Index |
| Subject Index |
| Acknowledgements |
| Preface |
| Acoustic Microscopy |
| Air-Coupled Imaging Method Applied to the Study and Conservation of Paintings / A.M. Siddiolo ; A. Maeva ; R.Gr. Maev |
| Study of Biomedical Specimens Using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy / D. Doroski ; B.R. Tittmann ; C. Miyasaka |
| Image Processing of Acoustic Microscopy Data to Estimate Textural Scales and Anistropy in Shales / T. Mukerji ; M. Prasad |
| Near-Field Acoustical Imaging Using Lateral Bending Mode of Atomic Force Microscope Cantilevers / A. Caron ; U. Rabe ; J. Rodel ; W. Arnold |
| Measurements of Parameters of Leaky Waves Using Ultrasonic Material Characterization System with Electronic Scanning / S.A. Titov |
| Application of an Acoustic Microscope for the Investigation of Embryonic Development in Quails Coturnix coturnix / L.A. Denisova ; E.A. Khramtsova ; T.S. Gurieva ; O.A. Dadasheva ; A.F. Denisov ; E.V. Snetkova |
| Ultrasonic Characterization of the Biological Objects of Spherical or Cylindrical Shape Using an Acoustic Microscope / A.R. Maeva ; E.Yu. Bakulin ; A. Sinisac ; N. Bajic ; F.M. Severin |
| Osteoblast Adhesion of Breast Cancer Cells with Scanning Acoustic Microscopy / R.R. Mercer ; A.M. Mastro |
| Measuring Cell Volume Regulation with Time Resolved Acoustic Microscopy / E.C. Weiss ; F. Wehner ; R.M. Lemor |
| Fundamental Potential for Acoustic Microscopy Evaluation of Dental Tissues / F.S. Rusanov ; D.Yu. Gavrilov |
| Components and Systems |
| Performance Improvement of Algorithms Based on the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique / P. Acevedo ; A. Sotomayor ; E. Moreno |
| Ultra-Broadband Ultrasonic Imaging Using Bi-Layer Structure Probe / I. Akiyama ; A. Ohya ; S. Saito |
| Development of a 40-MHz Annular Array / J.A. Ketterling ; S. Ramachandran ; F.L. Lizzi |
| Measuring Phase of Vibration of Spheres in a Viscoelastic Medium Using Vibrometry / M.W. Urban ; R.R. Kinnick ; J.F. Greenleaf |
| Acoustic Rhinometry (AR): An Alternative Method to Image Nasal Airway Geometry / S.P. Straszek |
| A New High Frequency Ultrasound Skin Imaging System: Imaging Properties and Clinical in Vivo Results / M. Vogt ; R. Scharenberg ; G. Moussa ; M. Sand ; K. Hoffmann ; P. Altmeyer ; H. Ermert |
| Computed Tomography |
| Non-Invasive Breast Tissue Characterization Using Ultrasound Speed and Attenuation / S.A. Johnson ; T. Abbott ; R. Bell ; M. Berggren ; D. Borup ; D. Robinson ; J. Wiskin ; S. Olsen ; B. Hanover |
| Data Symmetries and their Use in Acoustic Diffraction Tomography / M.A. Anastasio ; X. Pan ; D. Shi |
| Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE): First Clinical Results / N. Duric ; P. Littrup ; O. Rama ; E. Holsapple |
| Full-Wave, Non-Linear, Inverse Scattering / D.T. Borup ; R. Hanover |
| High-Resolution 3-D Imaging and Tissue Differentiation with Transmission Tomography / V.Z. Marmarelis ; J. Jeong ; D.C. Shin ; S. Do |
| Using Diffraction Tomography to Estimate Marine Animal Size / J.S. Jaffe ; P. Roberts |
| Breast Ductal Computer Phantom / E. Franceschini ; S. Mensah ; D. Amy ; J.-P. Lefebvre |
| Compound Quantitative Ultrasonic Tomography of Long Bones Using Wavelets Analysis / P. Lasaygues |
| Data Redundancies in Reflectivity Tomography Using Offset Sources and Receivers / J. Zhang |
| Biological and Medical Applications |
| Experimental Validation of the Spectral Fit Algorithm Using Tissue Mimicking Phantoms / T.A. Bigelow ; W.D. O'Brien, Jr. |
| Acoustical Imaging of Individual Microbubbles / F. Guidi ; H.J. Vos ; F. Nicchi ; E. Boni ; P. Tortoli |
| Optimization of a Breast Mass Classifier for Computer-Aided Ultrasound Analysis / M.P. Andre ; M. Galperin ; G. Contro ; N. Omid ; L. Olson |
| Ex Vivo Breast Tissue Imaging and Characterization Using Acoustic Microscopy / I. Bruno ; R.E. Kumon ; B. Heartwell ; E. Maeva |
| An Ultrasound Based System for Navigation and Therapy Control of Thermal Tumor Therapies / S.H. Tretbar ; H.J. Hewener ; C. Guenther ; K. Schwarzenbarth ; J.-P. Ritz ; K. Lehmann |
| Classification of Thermally Ablated Tissue Using Diagnostic Ultrasound / S. Siebers ; U. Scheipers ; J. Hansler ; M. Frieser ; D. Strobel ; C. Welp ; J. Werner ; E. Hahn |
| High Frequency Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging of Solid Tumors in Mice / M.L. Oelze ; W.D. O'Brien ; J.F. Zachary |
| Study and Characterization of Subharmonic Emissions by Using Shaped Ultrasonic Driving Pulse / L. Masotti ; E. Biagi ; L. Breschi ; E. Vannacci |
| Volumetric Imaging Using Acoustical Holography / T.F. Garlick ; G.F. Garlick |
| Recent Advances in Ultrasonic Tissue-Type Imaging of the Prostate / E.J. Feleppa ; C.R. Porter ; S. Dasgupta ; D. Sparks |
| Diagnostic Performance of a Computer-Aided Image Analysis System for Breast Ultrasound / M. Andre ; C. Comstock ; K. Richman ; M. O'Boyle |
| Clinical Experimentation of FEMMINA and RULES for Prostate and Breast Tumor Detection / S. Granchi ; D. Bini ; F. Ceccarelli ; A. Luddi ; E. Magrini |
| Non-Destructive Evaluation |
| Acoustic Imaging of Microstructure and Evaluation of the Adhesive's Physical, Mechanical and Chemical Properties Changes at Different Cure States / I.A. Severina ; A.J. Fabre ; E.Yu. Maeva |
| Application of Images when Evaluating Ultrasonic Examination: Results in Industrial Practice / U. Schlengermann |
| Innovative Power Amplifier and Transducer Technologies for High Frequency, Broadband Sonar Arrays / K.R. Erikson ; G. Zipfel ; S.C. Butler ; G.S. Edelson ; E.M. Will |
| Direct and Post-Compressed Sound Fields for Different Coded Excitations / A. Nowicki ; Z. Klimonda ; M. Lewandowski ; J. Litniewski ; P.A. Lewin ; I. Trots |
| Elastic Properties of Clay Minerals Determined by Atomic Force Acoustic Microscopy Technique / M. Kopycinska-Muller |
| Physics and Mathematics |
| Three-Dimensional Acoustic Tissue Model: A Computational Tissue Phantom for Image Analyses / J. Mamou |
| Quantum Acoustical Imaging / W.S. Gan |
| A Study of Pulse-Echo Image Formation Using Non-Quadratic Regularization with Speckle-Based Images / R. Lavarello ; F. Kamalabadi |
| Analytical Solutions of the KDV-KZK Equation |
| Synthetic Aperture Focusing of Echographic Images by Means of Pulse Compression / M. Scabia |
| Acoustical Imaging with Negative Refraction |
| Epilogue |
| Frederic L. Lizzi, Eng.Sc.D |
| History of Acoustical Imaging / Part 1： |
| Imaging Acoustics and Acoustic Imaging / R.E. Green Jr |
| A Brief History of Medical Ultrasonics / J.P Jones |
| Developments of Ultrasonic Measurement Technology for Acoustical Imaging / N Chubachi |
| Ultrasound Computed Tomography |
| From the Past to the Future / R.M. Schmitt |
| Brief Review of the early days of Ultrasonic QNDE at the Rockwell Science Center / B.R Tittman |
| Biological and Medical Acoustical Imaging / Part 2： |
| Quantitative Ultrasound for Bone Properties / P Laugier, et al |
| Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Micromeasurement of Elastomechanical Bone Properties |
| Comparison with Nanoidentation Results / J Brandt, et al |
| Investigating Compact Bone Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Using Acoustic Microscopy / L.A. Denisova, et al |
| 2D Simulation of the Axial Transmission Technique on a Cortical Bone Plate / E. Bossy, et al |
| An Ultrasound System for the Diagnosis of Osteoporosis / J.M Maia, et al |
| Cells as Seen with the Acoustic Microscope / J Bereiter-Hahn, et al |
| Development of Three Dimensional Image |
| Analysis System for Computer Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer |
| Using Ultrasonic Echography / I Akiyama, et al |
| Ultrasonic Images of Tissue Local Power Spectrum by Means of Wavelet Packets for Prostate |
| Cancer Detection / L Masotti, et al |
| Detecting Cardiac Allograft Rejection by Acoustic Microscopy / Y Saijo, et al |
| Ultrasonic Measurement of Depth-Dependent Strains of Articular Cartilage in Compression / Y.P Zheng, et al |
| A Research Platform for Diagnostic Ultrasound / R.M. Schmitt, et al |
| A Novel Method to Measure the Spatial Average |
| Temporal Average Intensity (Isata) and Ultrasonic Power (W) in Medical Composite Ultrasonic Transducers / P Acevedo ; D Das-Gupta |
| Prediction of Amplitude and Frequency Dependence of the Backscatter Coefficient in Cancellous Bone with an Autocorrelation Model / F Padilla, et al |
| Investigation of the Surface Microstructure of the Polyamide-Hydroxyapatite and Polyethylene-Hydroxyapatite Bone Implants with Acoustic Microscopy Methods / R.Gr Maev, et al |
| Multi-Step Compensation Technique for Ultrasound Tomography of Bone / E Ouedraogo, et al |
| Influence of Fat Components and Tissue Preparation on the High Frequency Acoustic Properties / H. Sasaki, et al |
| Application of Short-Time Fourier Multi-Narrowband Analysis to In Vivo Human Skin Between 12 and 25 MHz / C Fournier, et al |
| Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE) System: Development of Combined |
| Transmission and Reflection Ultrasound with New Reconstruction Algorithms for Breast Imaging / P.J Littrup, et al |
| Acoustic Microscopy. Ultrasonic Force Microscopy / Part 3： |
| Nanometer Scale Mechanical Contrast / B.D Huey |
| Imaging of the Ferroelectric Domains Pattern in the Ultrasonic Piezo-Mode / M. Kopycinska, et al |
| A Comparison of the SAW Velocity for Thin Film Aluminum Nitride On Silicon By Line Focus |
| Beam Acoustic Microscopy and Direct Transducer Measurements / F.S Hickernell |
| Ultrasonic Time Resolved Measurements by the V(x) Method / S.A. Titov, et al |
| Phase Sensitive Acoustic Microscopy Image Quality Estimation by Volume Imaging in Anisotropic Media: Acoustic Microscopy / M Pluta ; W. Grill |
| Investigation of Elasto-Mechanical Properties of Alginate By Ultrasound Methods / A. Klemenz, et al |
| Reconstruction of Fine-Scale Structure of Acoustical Scatterer on Large-Scale Contrast Background / V.A Burov, et alPart 4： |
| Singular Spectrum Analysis Applied to 20 MHz Backscattered Ultrasound Signals from Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Phantoms / W.C.A. Pereira, et al. Novel Techniques in Ultrasonic Correlation Spectroscopy: Characterizing the Dynamics of Strongly Scattering |
| Materials / M.L Cowan, et al |
| The Impact of Loss on Ultrasound Propagation / S Leeman, et al |
| The Modeling of Correlation-Tomography Reconstruction of Thermoacoustical Radiation Sources / V.A. Burov, et al |
| Configurational Classification of Stochastic Structures as a Way of Tissues |
| Classification For Ac |
| Strain Imaging |
| Use of Radiation Force to Measure Arterial Properties / X. Zhang ; C. Pislaru |
| Microscopic Measurement of Three-Dimensional Distribution of Tissue Viscoelasticity / T. Shiina ; M. Yoshida ; M. Yamakawa ; N. Nitta |
| Strain Imaging for Arterial Wall with Translational Motion Compensation and Center Frequency Estimation / H. Hasegawa ; H. Kanai |
| Near-Real-Time 3D Ultrasonic Strain Imaging / G. Treece ; J. Lindop ; A. Gee ; R. Prager |
| Dynamic Resolution Selection in Strain Imaging |
| A New Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Method for Measurements of Longitudinal Length Alteration of the Arterial Wall - First In Vivo Trial / M. Cinthio ; A. R. Ahlgren ; H.W. Persson ; K. Lindstrom |
| Evaluation of Tissue Motion Vector Measurement System Utilizing Synthetic-Aperture Array Signal Processing for Real-Time Elastography / S. Yagi ; A. Sanuga ; K. Tamura ; M. Sato |
| Ultrasonic Imaging of Hemodynamic Force in Carotid Blood Flow / K. Homma |
| Increasing Accuracy of Tissue Shear Modulus Reconstruction Using Ultrasonic Strain Tensor Measurement / C. Sumi |
| Biological and Medical Application |
| Pre-Clinical Experience with Full-Wave Inverse-Scattering for Breast Imaging / C.H. Barker ; N. Sekhon ; K. Callahan |
| High-Frequency Pulse-Compression Ultrasound Imaging with an Annular Array / R.H. Silverman |
| Blood Flow Imaging in Maternal and Fetal Arteries and Veins / S. Ricci ; G. Urban ; P. Vergani ; M. J. Paidas |
| Carotid Plaque Tissue Differentiation Based on Radiofrequency Echographic Signal Local Spectral Content (RULES: Radiofrequency Ultrasonic Local Estimators) / R. Facchini ; A. Ricci |
| Cross-Sampling Measurement of Vocal-Fold Vibration Using Ultrasound / O. Oshiro ; S. Kamei ; Y. Masuda ; Y. Kuroda ; T. Kuroda |
| Pressure-Dependent Attenuation of Ultrasound Contrast Agents / N. Kudo ; N. Hirao ; K. Okada ; K. Yamamoto |
| 3-D Acoustic Imaging System with a Reflector and a Small Array / H. Taki ; T. Sato |
| New Method for Ultrasound Contrast Imaging Using Frequency-Modulated Transmission / H. Ohuchi ; N. Kamiyama ; T. Kawagishi ; T. Imamura ; T. Asanuma ; H. Ishikura ; S. Beppu |
| Ultrasonic Detection and Imaging of Brachytherapy Seeds Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis / E. J. Feleppa |
| Evaluation of Post Wall Filter for Doppler Ultrasound Systems / T. Baba |
| Combining Ultrasonic and Magnetic-Resonance Spectral Methods for Imaging Prostate Cancer / E. Feleppa ; J. Ketterling ; A. Kalisz ; C. Porter ; M. Lacrampe ; C. Isacson ; S. Haker ; C. Tempany |
| Radio Frequency Signal Analysis for Tissue Characterization of Coronary Artery: In Vivo Intravascular Ultrasound Study / T. Iwamoto ; Y. Saijo ; A. Tanaka ; E. S. Filho ; S. Li ; M. Yoshizawa |
| Tissue Thermal Property Reconstruction by Stopping Heating and Perfusion / T. Uchida ; T. Ooba ; K. Inoue |
| Acoustical Microscopy |
| New Generation of High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging Technique for Advanced Material Characterization. Review |
| Visualization of Acoustic Waves Propagating within a Single Anisotropic Crystalline Plate with a Hybrid Acoustic Imaging Technique / K.L. Telschow ; J.T. Sadler |
| Ultrasonic Nano-imaging System for Medicine and Biology / N. Hozumi ; K. Kobayashi ; N. Okada ; Y. Hagiwara ; H. Sasaki ; E.d. S. Filho ; T. Yambe |
| Elastic Changes of Capsule in a Rat Knee Contracture Model Assessed by Scanning Acoustic Microscopy / E. Chimoto ; A. Ando ; E. Itoi |
| A Study of the Potential to Detect Caries Lesions at the White-Spot Stage Using V(Z) Technique / E. Y. Bakulin ; L. A. Denisova ; R. Gr. Maev |
| Investigation of Human Nail Microstructure with Ultrasound / E.Y. Bakulin |
| Non-Destructive Evaluation and Industrial Application |
| Ultrasonic Atomic Force Microscopy of Subsurface Defects / K. Yamanaka ; K. Kobari ; S. Ide ; T. Tsuji |
| Quantitative Material Characterization and Imaging at Nanoscale Using A New AFM Probe / F.L. Degertekin ; M. Balantekin ; A.G. Onaran |
| Non-Destructive Testing of Die-Casting Components of Non-Ferrous Metals for Surface-Near Porosity by High-Frequency Ultrasound / S. Hirsekorn ; D. Bruche ; N. Grov ; T. Kinzler |
| Detection of Harmonic Components Generated from Crept Metal Rod Using a Double-Layered Piezoelectric Transducer System / M. Fukuda ; M. Nishihira ; K. Imano |
| Observation of Two-Dimensional Spatial Distribution of Plane Crack Tips with Low-Power Pulsed Laser / H. Fujii ; T. Miyake ; M. Matsukawa |
| Reconstruction of the Ultrasonic Image by the Combination of Genetic Programming and Constructive Solid Geometry / M. Yamagiwa ; F. Sugimoto ; M. Yoneyama |
| Source Localization by Simulation of Time Reversal Wave and its Resolution Improvement with Deconvolution Technique / N. Wakatsuki ; K. Mizutani |
| Nonlinear Multibeam Ultrasonic Imaging / N. Yoshizumi |
| Dynamic-Receive Focusing with High-Frequency Annular Arrays |
| Fully Fiber Optic Ultrasonic Probes for Virtual Biopsy / S. Cerbai ; P. Gambacciani |
| High Resolution Ultrasonic Method for 3D Fingerprint Representation in Biometrics / E.Y. Maeva |
| Optoacoustic Imaging / M. Frenz ; M. Jaeger ; A. Gertsch ; M. Kitz ; D. Schweizer |
| New Imaging Method by Using Ultrasound Velocity Change Caused by Optical Absorption / H. Horinaka ; T. Matsunaka ; N. Nakamura ; T. Mukaiyama ; S. Kawakami ; M. Kawasaki ; K. Wada |
| Range Measurement Using Ultrasound FMCW Wave / M. Kunita ; T. Miki ; I. Arai |
| Direct Visualization of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasonic Field Using Light-Emitting Diodes and Piezoelectric Elements / K. Nakamura ; H. Ogura ; T. Sugimoto |
| Sensor Signal Processing for Ultrasonic Sensors Using Deleta-Sigma Modulated Single-Bit Digital Signal / S. Hirata ; M.K. Kurosawa ; T. Katagiri |
| A Method of Indoor Target Detection Using M-Sequence Acoustic Signal / T. Yamaguchi ; K. Nishihara ; H. Matsuo ; Y. Wang ; M. Hashimoto ; H. Hachiya |
| Geophysics and Underwater Imaging |
| Comparison of Some Aspherical Curved Surfaces of a Single Biconcave Acoustic Lens System for Ambient Noise Imaging / K. Mori ; H. Ogasawara ; T. Nakamura |
| Underground Imaging Using Shear Waves / H. Kawasaki |
| High-Speed Vortex Wind Velocity Imaging by Acoustic Tomography / H. Li ; T. Ueki ; K. Hayashi ; A. Yamada |
| Optical Observation of Two Collapsing Bubbles Adhering to a Quartz Wall / K. Yoshida ; S. Nakatani ; Y. Watanabe |
| Optical Observation of a Collapsing Bubble Adhering to a Piezoelectric Transducer Surface under Ultrasound Field |
| Visco-Elastic Models for Soft Tissues / S. Leeman ; J. Jones |
| Eigenvalue Imaging of A0-Mode Lamb Wave Field Based on Spatio-Temporal Gradient Analysis / K. Teramoto ; A. Uekihara |
| Vector Theory of Ultrasonic Imaging / W. S. Gan |
| Gauge Invariance Approach to Acoustic Fields |
| Medical Image Analysis |
| Reproducibility of Image Analysis for Breast Ultrasound Computer-Aided Diagnosis / L.K. Olson ; L. Mantrawadi |
| Wavelet Restoration of Three-Dimensional Medical Pulse-Echo Ultrasound Datasets in an EM Framework / J. Ng ; H. Gomersall ; N. Kingsbury |
| ML Estimation for Acoustical Image Deblurring / L. Pampaloni ; A. Palladini ; N. Testoni ; L.D. Marchi ; N. Speciale |
| Three-Dimensional Imaging by Using Singularity-Spreading Phase Unwrapping Method / T. Nishino ; R. Yamaki ; A. Hirose |
| Indication of Probe-Axis Angle by Extracting Wall Motion of Heart to Assist in Obtaining Long- and Short-Axis Views on Echocardiography / K. Masuda ; H. Matsuura ; R. Takahashi |
| Detection of Right Atrium Movement in Thrombi Flow Measurement / M. Aoki |
| Study of Probe Navigation Algorithm for Echocardiography to Acquire Standard Cross Section / T. Imai ; H. Inoue ; T. Sakai |
| Development of CAD System for Diffuse Disease Based on Ultrasound Elasticity Images / M. Yamazaki ; H. Takizawa ; A. Tonomura ; T. Mitake |
| FDTD Method and Other Numerical Simulations |
| FDTD Calculation of Linear Acoustic Phenomena and its Application to Architectural Acoustics and Environmental Noise Prediction / S. Sakamoto |
| Quantitative Assessment of Tubes and Rods: Comparison of Empirical and Computational Results / J.J. Kaufman ; G.M. Luo ; B. Blazy ; R.S. Siffert |
| Heated Temperature Imaging by Absorption of Ultrasound / C. Yamaya |
| Time Domain Analysis of Sound Propagation in Shallow Water with Transitional Layer / T. Tsuchiya ; S. Matsumoto ; N. Endoh |
| Visualization of Temperature Distribution in Cylindrical Cavity Using Sounds Reflected from Internal Surface / A. Minamide |
| Real Time Sound Field Simulator Using Field Programmable Gate Array Device / E. Sugawara ; Y. Inoguchi |
| Two-Dimensional Numerical Analysis of Acoustic Field Using the Constrained Interpolation Profile Method / S. Oh ; K. Okubo ; N. Takeuchi |
