AP3531 Acoustical imaging

• Applications of acoustical imaging in medical imaging, seismic imaging and non-destructive testing of construction materials.
• Review of Fourier and Radon transforms.
• The 3D acoustic wave equation and its properties.
• Derivation of the Kirchhoff and Rayleigh integral for acoustic waves. 
• Forward and inverse wave field extrapolation in homogeneous and inhomogeneous media and its use in acoustical imaging.
• Resolution of the acoustic images and estimation of background propagation velocities.
• Medical ultrasound: basic physical principles, principles of ultrasound applications in medicine and neuroscience, Doppler imaging, ultrasound contrast agents.
• Ultrasound transducers and beamforming.
• The non-linear wave equation and harmonic imaging.
• Medical ultrasound imaging using contrast agents.
• Inverse scattering theory and full waveform inversion.
• Invited medical lectures on ultrasound imaging in cardiology and neurosurgery.
   

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