Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out
Contact Information for Thomas Szabo
Comments or questions? Contact tlszabo@bu.edu.
Useful Links
Simulation Programs
- http://www.es.oersted.dtu.dk/staff/jaj/field/copyright.html (Field II program: general ultrasound imaging system simulator by Dr. J. A. Jensen, Biomedical Engineering Group, Technical University of Denmark)
- http://www.ifi.uio.no/~ultrasim/index.shtml (Ultrasim: diffraction and beam calculator for arrays and apertures by Dr. Sverre Holm and coworkers, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway)
- http://www.wai.com/AppliedScience/Software/Pzflex/index-pz.html (piezoelectric transducer and propagation FEM simulation PZFlex by Weidlinger Associates)
- http://www.cyberlogic.org/wave2000.html (Wave2000: elastic wave propagation and scattering computation program by CyberLogic, Inc.)
- http://dukemil.egr.duke.edu/ (GUI interface to Field II and virtual imaging lab by Dr. Gregg Trahey and coworkers of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University)
- Gkeilman@compuserve.com (PiezoCad; Piezoelectric transducer modeling software)
History of Ultrasound
- http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/site_index.html (A short History of the development of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology by Dr. Joseph Woo)
Ultrasound Links
- http://www.ultraljud.org/links.htm (A very comprehensive list maintained by ULTRALJUD, Swedish Society for Ultrasound in Medicine - SSMU)
- http://www.bmtp.akh-wien.ac.at/people/kollch1/kolllink.html (Useful links to ultrasound websites including organizations, journals, and companies by Dr. Christian Kollmann of the Ultrasound Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Medical University of Vienna)
- http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/ClinPhys/UEEP/info.htm (Links and Ultrasound Equipment Evaluation Project, UEEP, Department of Clinical Physics, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland)
- http://www.augenklinik.uni-wuerzburg.de/uslab/uslinks.htm (Department of Echography, Universitats-Augenklinik Josef-Schneider-Str.11 D-97080 Wurzburg )
- http://www.irisa.fr/vista/Ultrason3D/page9.html (3D ultrasound. IRISA, France)
- http://www.cvtcollege.org/~lpenrose/links.html (Coosa Valley Technical College, Georgia)
Additional Organizations
- http://www.wfumb.org/ (World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology)
- http://www.ieee-uffc.org/ (IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Group homepage)
- http://asa.aip.org/index.html (Acoustical Society of America)
- http://www.aium.org/ (American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine)
- http://www.istu2005.org/ (International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound [HIFU])
Tutorials
- http://www.ndt.net/article/v04n04/wuesten/wuesten.htm (Article on arrays by H. Wustenberg, A. Erhard, G. Schenk, BAM - Berlin
- http://www.ondacorp.com/tecref.html Tables of acoustic materials, tutorial on hydrophones
Resources
- http://asa.aip.org/map_publications.html Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- http://www.ieee-uffc.org/index.asp?page=archive2/index.htm (IEEE UFFC Digital Archive)
- http://www.sosmath.com/index.html (Convenient mathematics resource)
- http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=525452&Precis=DESC Ultrasonics Journal
- http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html U.S. Patent Office
- http://www.freepatentsonline.com/search.html Free Copies of Patents
Homework
- Problem Set 1 Chapter 2 (57KB Adobe Acrobat file)
- Problem Set 2 Chapter 3 (27KB Adobe Acrobat file)
- Problem Set 3 Chapter 4 (53KB Adobe Acrobat file)
- Problem Set 4 Chapter 5 (14KB Adobe Acrobat file)
- Problem Set 5 Chapter 6 (22KB Adobe Acrobat file)
- Problem Set 6 Chapter 7 (20KB Adobe Acrobat file)
- Problem Set 7 Chapter 8 (14KB Adobe Acrobat file)
MATLAB(r) Programs
Errata
- Errata2.14.06 (31KB Adobe Acrobat file)
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