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INDEX

3D-surface reconstruction, 481 3D-ultrasonic imaging, 263 3D-ultrasound images, 257

ALOK filter, 569 ART, 59, 817 AT-cut quartz filter, 761 Acoustic contrast mechanisms, 761 Acoustic emission detection, 595 Acoustic imaging, 89 Acoustic microscopy, 47, 291, 529, 535, 627,

633,639,645,651,673,685 Acoustic signature, 608 Acoustic speckle, 427 Acoustic velocity, 535 Acoustical camera, 821 Acoustical phase transformation, 892 Acoustics, 127

cylinder, 127 measurements, 130 sphere, 127

Acousto-optical fields, 71 Acousto-optical modulator, 892 Adaptive antenna, 207 Adaptive beamforming, 207 Adaptive filter, 375 Adaptive quantization, 383 Adiabatic modes theory, 898 Air ultrasound, 945 All-shape reconstruction, 540 Amplitude reconstruction, 155 Analog processing, 421 Anisotropic imaging, 62 Anisotropic materials, 651, 674 Anisotropic solids, 59 Anisotropy, 60, 687

focusing, 743 Antenna, 86, 885

array, 86 geometry, 885

Aperture field, 103 Arbitrary surfaces, 945 Area array transducer, 421

Array processing, 879 Artefacts, 23 A-scan, 369

Asphalt concrete, 60 1 Atmosphere, 853 Attachment sites, 539 Attenuation, 530 Attenuation in skin, 246 Attenuation property, 686

Back-projection,56,817,861 Back-scattering, 441, 530 Bathymetry, 879 Bayes optimal test, 91 Beam forming, 886 Beam pattern, 232 Bended rays, 817 Bessel transducer, 297 Bifurcation, 102 Blood flow, 336, 347 Blood flowmeter, 313 Blood velocity estimation, 317 B-mode echography, 427 B-mode imaging, 451 Bonding, 724 Bone tissue, 399 Born approximation, 24, 30, 143, 167 Born inversion, 557 Born-Neumann series, 36 Bottom parameters, 841 Boundary element method (BEM), 177 Brazing, 724 B-scan, 30, 245,369, 376, 581,906

application, 481 irnage,447,550,591 sonography, 453 textures, 387

Butterfly transducer, 686

CANDU, 581 Capacitive transducer, 773 Carbonfiber reinforced plastics, 575 Cardiac structure, 481 Cell cultures, 519, 535 Cell topography, 535 Cepstrum, 388 Ceramics, 554, 749 Chaos, 99 Chebyshev Minimax Error, 911

981

Chirp signal, 917 Circular array, 193,201 Cittert-Zernike theorem, 214 Classical elasticity theory, 3 Classification, 89 Clicker, 270 Clinical ultrasound, 375 Coast lines, 927 Color 301, 302

flow imaging, 301 flow mapping, 301 velocity imaging, 302

Combination scattering, 799 Common-midpoint stacking, 803 Common-reflecting element, 803 Complementary series, 278 Computer simulation, 493 Conventional approach, 100 Correlation, 276 Correlation theory, 123 Crack, 657, 749 Cross correlation, 305, 318 Cross-hole tomography, 811, 817 Crystal,47 Crystal defects, 667 C-scan, 245, 577, 590

imaging, 252 Curved array, 231

sonar transducer, 231

DNA molecule, 523 DPA,399 Damped least square method, 618 Defects SAM imaging, 723 Dermatological applications, 243 Dermatological diagnostics, 453 Detection, 89 Diagnostic ultrasound, 213 Die attach, 717 Different scanners, 393 Diffraction, 30, 72,415

correction, 410 problem, 24 tomography, 17,835

Diode, 723 Direct scattering, 115 Directivity pattern, 915 Dislocation dynamics, 697 Doppler, 317

catheter, 342 effect, 939 phase shift, 939 processing, II signal,306 sonography, 335,341 spectrum, 306, 332 ultrasound,311,323,329 ultrasound system, 347 SODAR,856

D-scan, 578

982

Duplex approach, 329 Dynamic focusing, 225 Dynamical Green's function, 744

Echo imaging, II Echo signal processing, 387 Echo-cardiography, 384 Echographic image processing, 427 Echographic modality, 301 Echographic scanner, 257 Echography, 259 Edges, 703 Elastic wave equation, 823 Electro-acoustic microscopy, 761 Electro-acoustic signal generation, 753 Electronic contrast mechanisms, 761 Electronic scanning, 251 Electroplating, 292 Ellipsoidal projection, 56 Extra-speckle condition, 112

Fan-beam scanner, 873 Far field scattering, 167 Ferrite, 65 fFI' analysis, 686 Fibers, 710 Field effect transistor (FET), 7 Filtered back-projection (FBP), 17 Finite element method (FEM), 176 Finite elements, 847 FIR filter, 567, 910 Fishery, 885 Fixation, 529 Flexible pavement, 60 I Flow detection, 645 Flow measurement, 329,933 Focusing, 95, 244, 265 Focusing beamformer, 891 Forward scattering, 41 Fourier optics, 289 Fraunhofer approximation, 639 Fraunhofer region, 41 Frequency dependent attenuation, 399 Fresnel region, 41

Gaucher disease, 399 Geoacoustics, 841 Geophysics, 835 GHz-sound, 670 Gradient-iterative algorithm, 37 Graphite, 653 Gray scale, 487 Green's function, 43,53 Green's theorem, 42

Head waves, 747 Heat-pulse experiments, 1 Helmholz equation, 150 Helmholz-Rayleigh method, 295 Helmholz-Sommerfeld integral, 177

Hermetic seal, 718 Hertzian resonators, 671 High frequency ultrasound, 243, 553 High resolution imaging, 243, 283 Higher-order elastic constants, 752 Holographic imaging, 867 Holographic reconstruction, 958 Holography, 83, 202 Homeomorphic imaging, 803 Hopfield model, 83 Hough tJansform, 187 Hybrid filtered back-projection, 17 Hydroacoustic channel, 909 Hydrophone, 24, 239

Image blurring, 207 Image contrast, 750 Image processing, 187,768 Image reconstruction, 84 Image restoration, 77 Imaging, 717 Imaging through impediments, 421 Imaging transducer, 175 In Vivo measurement, 311, 374 In-Depth analysis, 726 Insonification wave, SOl Instantaneous frequency, 15,348 Instrumental technology, 289 Interference period, 686 Intrinsic spectral broadening, 330 Inverse scattering, 30, 115,811 Inverse scattering problems (ISP), 35 Inversion, 823 Inversion algorithms, testing, 19 Isotropic materials, 674 Iteration, 210,271 Iterations, 835 Iterative algorithm, 162 Iterative-interpolational reconstruction, 38

Kirchhoff approximation, 167

Ll-norm minimization, 79 Lamb wave lens, 627 Large aperture hydrophone, 26 Large aperture lens, 662 Laser generated ultrasound, 743 Layer thickness estimation, 475

Layered materials, 627 Leaky surface acoustic wave (SAW), 685 Least-square deconvolution, 909 Legendre polynomials, 786 Lesion detection, 429 Linear array transducer, 487 Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation, 35 Lithotripsy, 241 Living cells, 539 Longitudinal phonons, 1 Look-Up table processing, 869 Love mode, 636

Magnetic field, 67 Magnetoacoustic profile, 65 Magnetoacoustic resonance, 65 Mammography, 415 Material characterization, 726 Maximum entropy, 811 Maximum likelihood estimation, 320 Measurements of movement, 935 Mechanical properties, 517 Medical imaging, 29 Medical ultrasound, 387 Metal matrix composites, 731 Microbubble, 439 Microcrack damage, 691 Microdefocusing method, 685 Microphone, 270 Microsection, 717 Mitosis, 523 Mitotic spindle, 523 Modal spectrum, 897 Mode conversion, 95 Monochromatic, 75 Moving phase object, 122 Multibeam sonar, 885 Multichannel reflection seismic, 803 Multifrequency imaging, 77 Multiple angle tomography, 499 Multiple data frames, 922 Multiple scattering, 35

Natural resonant eigenmodes, 295 NDE-testing,645 Needle point hydrophone, 239 Neural network, 83, 957 Neurosurgery, 269 Nondiffracting transducers, 295 Nonlinear elasticity, 799 Nonlinear interactions, 799 Nonlinear parameter, 363

Object recognition, 957 Oil pollution, 954 Optical phase transformation, 892 Optical processor, 891 Organic films, 951 Osteopenia, 399 Output signal, 680

Packaging, 717 Paracardiac structure, 481 Paraffin cycle, 529 Pattern classification, 959 Phase aberration, 213 Phase aberration correction, 215 Phase array, 225 Phase army scanner, 409 Phase difference, 608 Phase reconstruction, 155 Phase velocity, 686 Phonon flux, 6

983

Phonon focusing, 3,47, 744 Phonon imaging, 1,95 Phonon-drag, 7 Phonons,1 Photo acoustic imaging, 755 Photoelasticity, 188 Physical metallurgy, 699 Piezoelectric detector, 767 Piezoelectric element, 193 Piezoelectric transducer, 175,219,773,885 Piezo-electricity, 290 Planar area function, 167 Point spread function, 225 Porcine muscle, 406 Power semiconductor device, 723 Power spectrum analyses, 354 Preparation, 529 Probabilistic approach, 561 Probability density function, 99 Projection, 53

back-projection, 56 ,817 ,861 Projection onto convex sets, 921 Prony's method, 688 Pseudorandom code, 276 Pseudo-second derivative (PSD) method, 617 Pulse compression, 246 Pulse-echo, 167,219,475,590

acoustic imaging, 219 methods, 590 scattering, 167 tomography, 475

PZT transducer, 779

QCT,399 Quality inspection, 190 Quartz, 668

Random media, 99 Ray casting, 556 Rayleigh effects, 388 Rayleigh mode, 636 Rayleigh pole, 135 Rayleigh wave, 133,610,694 Reconstruction algorithms, testing, 19 Reentrant Resonators, 671 Reflected ultrasound, 409 Reflection coefficient, 519 Reflection tomography, 161,475,822 Reflectionless object carriers, 519 Refraction effects, 25 Residual strains, 752 Residual strength, 710 Residual stresses, 749

SAM,661 Sampled aperture, 422 Sampling grids, 829 SAW -speed, 623 SAW -speed dispersion, 633

984

Scanning acoustic microscope (SAM), 511,617,623,661

Scanning acoustic microscopy, 007, 691,703,717,731

Scanning electron acoustic microscope (SEAM), 749,755,767,773,779

Scanning electron microscope (SEM), 731, 767 Scanning laser acoustic microscope (SLAM),

357,499,709 Scanning tomographic acoustic microscope, 499 Scanning tunneling microscope (STM), 737 Scatterers' density, 110 Scattering, 17,24,854,939

data, 17 of sound, 854 of ultrasound, 939

Schlieren, 188 Sea surface, 951 Secondary sources, 143 Sector imaging, 201 Sector scanning sensors, 873 Segmentation, 471 Seismic data, 829 Seismic data processing, 803 Seismic tomography, 785, 817 Seismic waves, 799 Self-focusing, 141 Self-imaging, 149 Sensitive specimens, 767 Sensor array imaging, 921 Shallow waves, 847 Shannon's sampling theorem, 623 Shear elasticity, 464 Shear waves, 463 Shielding effect, 591 Side lobes, 423 Signal processing, 365, 687, 879 Signal to noise ratio, 104, 112,428 Silicon, 723, 755 Silicon wafer, 723 Single element transducer (SET), 11 Single transmission, 13

SIRT, 59, 817 Skin cancer, 369 Skin sonography, 453 Skin tumors, 456 Skull bone, 421 SLAM,357 Slope of delay, 208 Slowness surfaces, 4 Small aperture lens, 661 Solid-angle function, 167 Sonar, 909 Sonar imaging, 903 Sonar transducer, 231 Sonography,30 Sound analysis, 897 Sound pressure, 232 Sound-beam topography, 667

Source directivity, 745 Spatial aliasing, 830 Spatial analysis, 517 Spatial frequency spectrum, 124 Speckle, 109,381,433,447

artefact, 433 reduction, 447 region, 109 statistics, 381

Spectra calculation, 324 Spectral Fourier transform, 13 Spectral decomposition, 103 Spin, 66 Spurious echo, 219 Statistical approach, 99 Stochastic process, 100 Structural scattering, 493 Superconductivity bolometer, 2 Superresolution, 71, 77 Superresolution, 77 Superresolved image restoration, 77 Surface acoustic wave (SAW), 697,737 Surface layer, 601 S-wave tomography, 786 Synthetic aperture, 11 Synthetic aperture focusing, 545 Synthetic seismograms, 818

TEE,489 Temporal frequency spectrum, 121 Textons, 470 Texture analysis, 393,470 TGC-amplification,245 Thermoelastic parameters, 750 Thick transducer, 283 Thomson-Haskell method, 636 Three-dimensional Fourier transform, 25 Three-dimensional imaging, 521 Thyristor, 723 Tikhonov regularization, 117 Time delay estimation, 475 Time gain compensation, 410 Time reversal mirror, 237 Time-of-flight (TOF), 269, 559 Time-reversal cavity, 141 Time-reversal pressure field, 144 Tissue characterization, 363, 393,463,469, 521 Tissue modeling, 493 Tomographic imaging, 59 Tomography, 415, 811, 835, 861 Transducer, 289,958 Transducer technology, 243 Transesophageal echocardiography, 481 Transfer function, 220, 296, 623, 703 Transferability, 393 Transistor, 723 Transmission acoustic microscopy, 679 Transmission mode diffraction Tomography, 115 Transmission tomography, 822 Transmitted ultraSOund, 409 Transplantal kidneys, 469

Transverse insonification, 325 Transverse phonons, I Trial-and-error method, 805 Triangular sampling, 832 Tunneling microscopy, 737 Two variable, 823

Ultrasonic, 193 Ultrasonic beam, 193,251,342 Ultrasonic contrast agent, 439 Ultrasonic defect imaging, 559 Ultrasonic focusing beams, 133 Ultrasonic imaging, 74,225,275,

475,548,567,575,589 Ultrasonic inspection, 559 Ultrasonic medical imaging, 263 Ultrasonic microscope, 657 Ultrasonic scanning system, 575 Ultrasonic sensors, 957 Ultrasonic speckle, 109 Ultrasonic spectroscopy, 289 Ultrasonic technique, 595 Ultrasonic time-of-flight, 581 Ultrasonic tissue characterization, 353, 493 Ultrasonic tomography, 933 Ultrasonic velocity, 601 Ultrasonic wave shadow method, 657 Ultrasonic wavefront, 121 Ultrasound,44,71,187,284 ,311,358,399,

403,415,657,911 transducers, 187 beam, 358 experiment, 44 scattering, 951 time domain correlation (UTDC), 311, 403 tissue characterization, 399

Underwater acoustics, 867, 879, 927 Uniform ladder algorithm (ULA), 264 Uniform ladder sampling, 263 Unipolar wave, 283 UTDC,406

Van Cittert-Zemike theorem, 214 Velocity, 207, 270,475,531,540

fluctuation, 207 imaging, 475 modeling, 540

Vicker's indentations, 749 Visualization, 188,553

of douphine twins, 761 Volume data acquisition, 553 Volume rendering, 554 Vorticity, 861 VSP,817

WC+Co coating, 781 Wall filter, 319 Waveguide, 151 Wear behavior, 779 Wideband signals, 319, 915 Wiener filter, 704

985

Wigner distribution, 335 Wigner-Ville-spectrum, 335 Wind wave damping, 951

XTH-2 cells, 513, 523 X-ray, 717 X-ray scattering, 691

986

Zero adjusunent procedure, 434 Zero crossing rate (OXR), 347