Open platform (OP) ultrasound systems are aimed primarily at the research community. They
have been at the forefront of the development of synthetic aperture, plane wave, shear wave …

Contrast-enhanced imaging has grown significantly in the past two decades. Technology
has evolved from imaging based on linear principles to elaborate pulsing and microbubble …

Ablative materials are used extensively in the aerospace industry for protection against high
thermal stresses and temperatures, an example being glass/silicone composites. The …

Therapeutic microbubbles could make an important contribution to the diagnosis and
treatment of cancer. Acoustic characterisation was performed on microfluidic generated …

Experiments have been performed to demonstrate that ultrasound in the 100–400 kHz
frequency range can be used to propagate signals through various types of industrial …

An inlay sample with artificial defects was inspected via the pulse-compression
thermography (PuCT) technique. The sample belongs to the cultural heritage field, and it …

There is increasing use of ultrasound contrast agent in high-frequency ultrasound imaging.
However, conventional contrast detection methods perform poorly at high frequencies. We …

Chirp-coded excitation can increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) without degrading the
axial resolution. Effective pulse compression (PC) is important to maintain the axial …

Switched excitation has the potential to improve on the cost, efficiency, and size of the linear
amplifier circuitry currently used in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) systems …

In medical ultrasound, B-mode images are log-compressed and displayed with a grayscale
map, typically on a 40–60 dB dynamic range. The image formation process is the same for …