InhaltsangabeComponents & Systems.- 1. Micromachined ultrasonic transducers and their use for 2D and 3D imaging.- 2. Portable ultrasonic phased array system.- 3. A novel approach for ultrasonic imaging of sheet contours for hydroforming.- 4. A phased array system for the acquisition of ultrasonic RF-data up to 20 MHz.- 5. Computation and properties of the wide-band beam pattern.- 6. A fine pitch interconnection method for high frequency ?-spaced linear arrays using MicroFlex technology.- 7. Design and construction of a blood flow detector probe for medical application.- NDT.- 8. Synthetic aperture focusing technique for industrial applications.- 9. Interaction of short pulses of focused ultrasound with interfaces and plane-parallel objects.- 10. Third order elastic constant diffraction tomography.- 11. Characterization of the fatigue damage of advanced ceramic composites by scanning acoustic microscopy.- 12. Nonlinear acoustic imaging: Fundamentals, methodology, and NDE-applications.- 13. Acoustic visualization of interface deterioration in adhesive bond joints.- 14. Ultrasonic Imaging of thin materials using high resolution air-coupled transducers.- 15. Ultrasound thermography in NDE: Principle and applications.- 16. Ultrasound diffusion for crack depth determination in concrete.- 17. Imaging of cracks and honeycombing in concrete elements.- 18. Rapid imaging of large steel plate structures using guided waves.- 19. Ultrasonic techniques for imaging and measurements in molten magnesium using clad buffer rods.- 20. Acoustic imaging with surface and Lamb waves for NDE and material characterisation.- 21. Ultrasound activated speckle interferometry for defectselective imaging in NDE: Principle and applications.- 22. Electrical impedance matching of PVDF ultrasonic transducers.- 23. A new structure of SH wave electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT).- 24. An array implementation of the resonance spectroscopy method for adhesive bonding imaging.- 25. Investigation of structure and properties of immisible polymer blend by acoustic microscopy techniques.- 26. Measuring sound velocities and anisotropy of microstructural units of laminate composite materials by microacoustical technique.- 27. Ultrasonic imaging of rubber material and rubber metal interfaces.- 28. Evaluation of rubber-PVC blends structure and properties using scanning acoustic microscope.- 29. Acoustic microscopy, Brillouin scattering and laser-SAW technique for defect characterization in DLC films.- 30. Application of microacoustical technique to study elastic properties and microstructure of new generation of bulk metallic glasses.- 31. Imaging of carbon-fiber-reinforced (CFR) laminates microstructure by acoustic microscopy.- 32. Image reconstruction in transmission ultrasound tomography.- 33. Abberation correction in near fiield tomography.- 34. Fast simulation of ultrasonic B-mode images.- 35. An educational model and toolbox for acoustic tomographic imaging.- 36. Acoustic travel time tomography as a method to observe turbulent structures in the atmospheric boundary layer.- 37. Nonlinear acoustic methods for crack vision.- 38. Optical observation of shock wave propagation caused by a collapsing bubble.- 39. New informative possibilities of active-passive thermoacoustic tomography.- 40. Optical measurement and visualization of transient ultrasonic wave fields.- 41. Recovery of the shape and location of a rigid cylindrical body from experimental scattered acoustic field data.- 42. Effects, connected with passing of high frequency longitudinal wave through the film-sublayer system in the direction normal to the contact plane.- 43. Characterization and imaging of thin, highly oriented layers: Theory and experiment.- 44. Nonlinear acoustic vision of bubble objects and flows.- 45. Split phase processing - a single image, resolution loss free method for ultrasound speckle reduction.- 46. Quantum acoustical imaging.- Seismic Imaging.- 47. Seismic imaging - prospects and challenges on a