2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)

2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
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Total Pages: 0
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Genre: Ultrasonics
ISBN: 9781728154480

The objective of the symposium is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government involved in the area of Medical Ultrasonics Sensors, NDE and Industrial Applications Physical Acoustics Microacoustics Transducers and Transducer Materials or similar techniques and protocols.

Innovative Ultrasound Imaging Techniques

Innovative Ultrasound Imaging Techniques
Author: S. Lori Bridal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2024-07-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 139430661X

This book provides an understanding of ultrasound imaging principles and how the field is evolving to better probe living systems. Today, widely-used imaging systems visualize structures and blood flow within the body in real-time. Signal analysis, hardware and contrast agent innovations are extending the capacity of ultrasound to assess tissue elasticity, to enable three-dimensional viewing of moving structures and to detect vessels smaller than the wavelength-limited resolution. Techniques are also being designed so that we are less impeded by bones in the sound path, as well as to combine light and sound to detect optically-absorbent structures within the body. After an introductory chapter reviewing the key basic concepts, each chapter presents a detailed explanation focusing on a specific set of key principles and then shows the related techniques in each domain that are currently being refined to evaluate living systems in greater depth.

MEMS Technology for Biomedical Imaging Applications

MEMS Technology for Biomedical Imaging Applications
Author: Qifa Zhou
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2019-10-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 303921604X

Biomedical imaging is the key technique and process to create informative images of the human body or other organic structures for clinical purposes or medical science. Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology has demonstrated enormous potential in biomedical imaging applications due to its outstanding advantages of, for instance, miniaturization, high speed, higher resolution, and convenience of batch fabrication. There are many advancements and breakthroughs developing in the academic community, and there are a few challenges raised accordingly upon the designs, structures, fabrication, integration, and applications of MEMS for all kinds of biomedical imaging. This Special Issue aims to collate and showcase research papers, short commutations, perspectives, and insightful review articles from esteemed colleagues that demonstrate: (1) original works on the topic of MEMS components or devices based on various kinds of mechanisms for biomedical imaging; and (2) new developments and potentials of applying MEMS technology of any kind in biomedical imaging. The objective of this special session is to provide insightful information regarding the technological advancements for the researchers in the community.

Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging

Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging
Author: Hideyuki Hasegawa
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3038971278

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging" that was published in Applied Sciences

Beamforming in Medical Ultrasound Imaging

Beamforming in Medical Ultrasound Imaging
Author: Babak Mohammadzadeh Asl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2023-11-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 981997528X

This book deals with the concept of medical ultrasound imaging and discusses array signal processing in ultrasound. Signal processing using different beamforming techniques in order to achieve a desirable reconstructed image and, consequently, obtain useful information about the imaging medium is the main focus of this book. In this regard, the principles of image reconstruction techniques in ultrasound imaging are fully described, and the required processing steps are completely expanded and analyzed in detail. Simulation results to compare the performance of different beamformers are also included in this book to visualize their differences to the reader. Other advanced techniques in the field of medical ultrasound data processing, as well as their corresponding recent achievements, are also presented in this book. Simply put, in this book, processing of medical ultrasound data from different aspects and acquiring information from them in different manners are covered and organized in different chapters. Before going through the detailed explanation in each chapter, it gives the reader an overview of the considered issue and focuses his\her mind on the challenge ahead. The contents of the book are also presented in such a way that they are easy for the reader to understand. This book is recommended for researchers who study medical ultrasound data processing.

Advances in Adaptive Ultrasonics

Advances in Adaptive Ultrasonics
Author: Andrew Feeney
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2024-12-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1040268250

Providing an overview of a new generation of ultrasonic technology, Advances in Adaptive Ultrasonics explores how ultrasonic devices can harness the properties of advanced materials, including shape memory alloys and metamaterials. The applications of ultrasonic devices range from surgery, drilling, and welding to sonar and energy harvesting. This book demonstrates how engineers can overcome common issues within the field of ultrasonics, such as precision control and choice of materials. Beginning with an overview of ultrasonic technology as it is currently understood, the book goes on to discuss the newest iteration in the form of adaptive ultrasonics and the benefits this can offer to multiple industries. Key topics include advanced materials, notably phase-transforming shape memory alloys, and the principles of adaptive ultrasonic transducer design. The book also covers measurement approaches for characterising adaptive ultrasonic devices and provides an overview of potential applications for the technology. This book will be of interest to students and engineers in the field of ultrasonic surgery, industrial engineering, welding, and mechanical materials.

Endorobotics

Endorobotics
Author: Luigi Manfredi
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 012821760X

The book comprises three parts. The first part provides the state-of-the-art of robots for endoscopy (endorobots), including devices already available in the market and those that are still at the R&D stage. The second part focusses on the engineering design; it includes the use of polymers for soft robotics, comparing their advantages and limitations with those of their more rigid counterparts. The third part includes the project management of a multidisciplinary team, the health cost of current technology, and how a cost-effective device can have a substantial impact on the market. It also includes information on data governance, ethical and legal frameworks, and all steps needed to make this new technology available. - Focuses on a new design paradigm for endorobots applications - Provides a unique collection of engineering, medical and management contributions for endorobotics design - Describes endorobotics, starting from available devices in both clinical use and academia

Multi-Sensor Imaging and Fusion: Methods, Evaluations, and Applications, volume II

Multi-Sensor Imaging and Fusion: Methods, Evaluations, and Applications, volume II
Author: Zhiqin Zhu
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2024-07-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832552005

Multi-sensor image fusion focuses on processing images of the same object or scene acquired by multiple sensors, in which various sensors with multi-level and multi-spatial information are complemented and combined to ultimately yield a consistent interpretation of the observed environment. In recent years, multi-sensor image fusion has become a highly active topic, and various fusion methods have been proposed. Many effective processing methods, including multi-scale transformation, fuzzy inference, and deep learning, have been introduced to design fusion algorithms. Despite the great progress, there are still some noteworthy challenges in the field, such as the lack of unified fusion theories and methods for effective generalized fusion, the lack of fault tolerance and robustness, the lack of benchmarks for performance evaluation, the lack of work on specific applications of multi-sensor image fusion, and so on.

Sonic and Photonic Crystals

Sonic and Photonic Crystals
Author: Lien-Wen Chen
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039366602

Sonic/phononic crystals termed acoustic/sonic band gap media are elastic analogues of photonic crystals and have also recently received renewed attention in many acoustic applications. Photonic crystals have a periodic dielectric modulation with a spatial scale on the order of the optical wavelength. The design and optimization of photonic crystals can be utilized in many applications by combining factors related to the combinations of intermixing materials, lattice symmetry, lattice constant, filling factor, shape of the scattering object, and thickness of a structural layer. Through the publications and discussions of the research on sonic/phononic crystals, researchers can obtain effective and valuable results and improve their future development in related fields. Devices based on these crystals can be utilized in mechanical and physical applications and can also be designed for novel applications as based on the investigations in this Special Issue.