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