Ebook - Advances in Acoustic Microscopy and High Resolution Imaging: From Principles to Applications

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Novel physical solutions, including new results in the field of adaptive methods and inventive approaches to inverse problems, original concepts based on high harmonic imaging algorithms, intriguing vibro-acoustic imaging and vibro-modulation technique, etc. were successfully introduced and verified in numerous studies of industrial materials and biomaterials in the last few years. Together with the above mentioned traditional academic and practical avenues in ultrasonic imaging research, intriguing scientific discussions have recently surfaced and will hopefully continue to bear fruits in the future. The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the recent advances in high-resolution ultrasonic imaging techniques and their applications to biomaterials evaluation and industrial materials. The result is a unique collection of papers presenting novel results and techniques that were developed by leading research groups worldwide.

This book offers a number of new results from well-known authors who are engaged in aspects of the development of novel physical principles, new methods, or implementation of modern technological solutions into current imaging devices and new applications of high-resolution imaging systems. The ultimate purpose of this book is to encourage more research and development in the field to realize the great potential of high resolution acoustic imaging and its various industrial and biomedical applications.

Contents

Part One : Fundamentals

CHP 1    -   From Multiwave Imaging to Elasticity Imaging

Mathias Fink Mickael Tanter

CHP 2    -   Imaging via Speckle Interferometry and Nonlinear Methods

Jeffrey Sadler Prof. Roman Gr. Maev

Part Two : Novel Developments in Advanced Imaging Techniques and Methods

CHP 3    -   Fundamentals and Applications of a Quantitative Ultrasonic Microscope for Soft Biological Tissues

Kazuto Kobayashi Naohiro Hozumi

CHP 4    -   Portable Ultrasonic Imaging Devices

Sergey A. Titov Prof. Roman Gr. Maev Fedar M. Severin

CHP 5    -   High‐Frequency Ultrasonic Systems for High‐Resolution Ranging and Imaging

Michael Vogt Helmut Ermert

CHP 6    -   Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy Based on the Array Approach

Sergey Titov Prof. Roman Gr. Maev

Part Three : Advanced Biomedical Applications

CHP 7    -   Study of the Contrast Mechanism in an Acoustic Image for Thickly Sectioned Melanoma Skin Tissues with Acoustic Microscopy

Bernhard R. Tittmann Chiaki Miyasaka Elena Maeva David Shum

CHP 8    -   New Concept of Pathology – Mechanical Properties Provided by Acoustic Microscopy

Yoshifumi Saijo

CHP 9    -   Quantitative Scanning Acoustic Microscopy of Bone

Pascal Laugier Amena Saïed Mathilde Granke Kay Raum

Part Four : Advanced Materials Applications

CHP 10  -   Array Imaging and Defect Characterization Using Post‐Processing Approaches

Alexander Velichko Paul D. Wilcox Bruce W. Drinkwater

CHP 11  -   Ultrasonic Force and Related Microscopies

Andrew Briggs Oleg V. Kolosov

CHP 12  -   Ultrasonic Atomic Force Microscopy

Kazushi Yamanaka Toshihiro Tsuji

CHP 13  -   Acoustical Near‐Field Imaging

Walter Arnold

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