Acoustical Imaging

Imaging Techniques I.- Reflex Transmission Imaging.- Imaging by Source Cancellation.- Sparsely-Sampled Phase-Insensitive Two-Dimensional Arrays: Spatial Interpolation and Signal-Dependent Aperture.- Unbiased Calibration of Annular Array Probes.- The Borehole Televiewer Digital Image Analysis and Processing.- Optimum Focusing in the Ultrasonic Annular Array Imaging System.- Quasi-Real Time Imaging of Pulsed Acoustic Fields.- Analysis of Oblique Angle Scanning in the Imaging of Multilayered Targets.- NDE and Materials Characterization.- Removing the Effects of Surface Roughness From Low-Frequency Acoustic Images.- Performance Evaluation of Spatial and Time Averaging of Ultrasonic Grain Signal.- High-Speed Autoraated NDT Device for Niobium Plate Using Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscopy.- Evaluation of Plastic Packages for Integrated Circuits Using Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscopy (SLAM).- Image Analysis as an Aid to Quantitative Interpretation of Acoustic Images of Die Attach.- Characterization of Defects in Mn-Zn Ferrites by Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscopy (SLAM).- Interaction Between Void Parameters and the Outputs of the Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscope.- Medical Imaging.- Time-Of-Flight Approximation for Medical Ultrasonic Imaging.- Multiplane Deconvolution in Orthographic Ultrasonic Transmission Imaging.- Real-Time Enhancement of Medical Ultrasound Images.- A Surgical Ultrasound System Using an Embedded Personal Computer.- In-Vivo and In-Vitro Measurements of Turbulent Blood Flow Characteristics Using a Multi-Dimensional Ultrasonic Probe.- Ultrasound Two-Dimensional Flow Mapping Using Fast Spectral Analysis.- Acoustic Holography and Tomography.- Performance Evaluation of Phase-Only Technique for High-Resolution Holographic Imaging.- Diffraction Tomography Algorithms Using the Total Scattered Field.- Efficient Sampling for Nearfield Acoustic Holography.- Velocity-Based Nearfield Acoustic Holography.- An Examination of Aperture Effects in Cylindrical Nearfield Holography.- Tissue Characterization.- Scanning Acoustic Microscope for Quantitative Characterization of Biological Tissues.- Estimation of Acoustic Attenuation Coefficient by Using Maximum Entropy Method.- Characterizing Abnormal Human Liver by Its In-Vivo Acoustic Properties.- Non-Linear Parameter Imaging With Refinement Techniques.- Sono-Elasticity: Medical Elasticity Images Derived From Ultrasound Signals in Mechanically Vibrated Targets.- Tissue Characterization by Spectral Analysis of Ultrasound Video Images.- Inverse Scattering.- Numeric Evaluation of Backward Wave Propagation Image Reconstruction.- Acoustic Inverse Scattering Images From Simulated Higher Contrast Objects and From Laboratory Test Objects.- Acoustical Imaging Beyond Born and Rytov.- Surface Imaging Via Wave Equation Inversion.- Accuracy in Phase Tomographic Reconstruction.- A Suboptimal Tomography Reconstruction Technique.- A Fast Reconstruction Algorithm for Diffraction Tomography.- A Computational Study of Reconstruction Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Diffraction Tomography: Interpolation Versus Interpolation-Free.- Imaging Techniques II.- The Random Phase Transducer: A New Tool for Scattering Medium.- Calibration of Ultrasonic Transducers by Time Deconvolution of the Diffraction Effects.- Determination of the Impulse Diffraction of an Obstacle by Ray Modeling.- Thermal Wave Imaging in Anisotropic Media.- Characterization of Heterogeneous Materials Using Transmission Photoacoustic Microscopy.- Acoustic Microscopy.- New Techniques in Differential Phase Contrast Scanning Acoustic Microscopy.- A 100 MHz PVDF Ultrasound Microscope With Biological Applications.- Ferroelectric Polymer Transducers for High Resolution Scanning Acoustic Microscopy.- Multimedia Holographic Image Reconstruction in a Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscope.- Data Acquisition for Scanning Tomographic Acoustic Microscopy.- Metrology Potential of Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscopes Using Surface Acoustic Waves.- Another Angle on Acoustic Microscopy (Oblique).- Seismic, Underwater and Source Location.- Surface Shapes Giving Transverse Cusp Catastrophes in Acoustic or Seismic Echoes.- Acoustic Imagery of the Sea-Bed.- Partial Discrete Vector Space Model for High-Resolution Beamforming.- Acoustical Recognition of Objects in Robotics II. Determination of Type, Pose, Position, and Orientation.- Applications of Generalized Radon Transform to Inversion Problem of Geophysics.- Mini-Sparker as a Source in Seismic Models.- Spatial Filtering in Seismic Shallow Prospecting.- Participants.- Author Index.