BRL Publications (2000 - 2009)

Selected Bioacoustics Research Lab publications from 1980 through the present are available in pdf format. If the full pdf of a publication is available, the title will be linked. Updated: April 4, 2018.

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2009

• J. J. Anderson, M.-T. Herd, M. R. King, A. Haak, Z. T. Hafez, J. Song, J. L. Oelze, E. L. Madsen, J. A. Zagzebski, W. D. O' Brien, Jr. and T. J. Hall. Interlaboratory Comparison of Backscatter Coefficient Estimates for Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1950-1953, 2009.

• THESIS. Bellina, Alessandro A. Applying Computational Techniques to Obtain the Acoustic Pathways into the Human Head. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.

• A. Dapore, M. R. King, J. Harter, S. Sarwate, M. L. Oelze, J. A. Zagzebski, M. N. Do, T. J. Hall and William D. O'Brien, Jr. Analysis of Human Fibroadenomas using Three-dimensional Impedance Maps. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 309-312, 2009.

• R. M. Fish and L. A. Geddes. Conduction of Electrical Current to and Through the Human Body: A Review. Eplasty, 9, 2009.

• THESIS. Forbes, Monica M. The Role of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Producing Sonoporation. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.

• G. Ghoshal and M. L. Oelze. Use of Quantitative Ultrasound to Detect Temperature Variations in Biological Phantoms due to Heating. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1780-1783, 2009.

• M. Goueygou, J. Popovics, K. Hall, M. Oelze and Z. Lafhaj. Microstructure Characterization in Cement Paste Using Backscattered Diffuse Ultrasound. Review of Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, 28, 1528-1535, 2009.

• A. Haak, Z. T. Hafez, J. J. Anderson, M.-T. Herd, K. Nam, E. L. Madsen, T. A. Bigelow, T. J. Hall and William D. O'Brien, Jr. Algorithm for Estimating the Attenuation Slope from Backscattered Ultrasonic Signals. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1946-1949, 2009.

• Z. T. Hafez, L. A. Wirtzfeld, A. Battles, R. J. Miller, S. Sarwate, M. L. Oelze, T. J. Hall and William D. O'Brien, Jr. Estimating Scatterer Properties in Rat Fibroadenomas Using Various Mathematical Form Factors. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 294-297, 2009.

• THESIS. Hruska, David P. Improved Techniques for Statistical Analysis of the Envelope of Backscattered Ultrasound Using the Homodyned K Distribution. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.

• D. Hruska, R. Lavarello, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and M. L. Oelze. Improved Estimation of Parameters of the Homodyned K Distribution. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2268-2271, 2009.

• D. P. Hruska, J. Sanchez and M. L. Oelze. Improved Diagnostics through Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging. Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 1956-1959, 2009.

• D. P. Hruska and M. L. Oelze. Improved Parameter Estimates Based on the Homodyned K Distribution. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 56, 2471-2481, 2009.

• THESIS. King, Daniel A. Determination of Shell Rupture Thresholds for Single Ultrasound Contrast Agent Microbubbles Using Double Passive Cavitation Detection. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.

• D. A. King, M. Santin, M. J. Malloy, A. C. Roberts, A. Haak, J. Foiret, S. Haupert, S. Jafari, L. Bridal and William D. O'Brien, Jr.. Using Passive Cavitation Detection to Observe Postexcitation Response of Ultrasound Contrast Agents. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1286-1289, 2009.

• J. L. King, R. J. Miller, J. P. Blue, Jr., W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. W. Erdman, Jr. Inadequate Dietary Magnesium Intake Increases Atherosclerotic Plaque Development in Rabbits. Nutrition Research, 29, 343-349, 2009.

• THESIS. King, Michael R. Development and Application of Three-Dimensional Impedance Maps Related to Tissue Pathology. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.

• THESIS. Lavarello Montero, Roberto J. New Developments on Quantitative Imaging Using Ultrasonic Waves. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.

• R. J. Lavarello and M. L. Oelze. An Improved Method for Tomographic Density Imaging Using a Multiple Frequency Inverse Scattering Approach. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1467-1470, 2009.

• R. J. Lavarello and M. L. Oelze. Density Imaging Using Inverse Scattering. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 793-802, 2009.

• R. J. Lavarello and M. L. Oelze. Tomographic Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Volumes Using the Distorted Born Iterative Method. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 28, 1643-1653, 2009.

• R. J. Lavarello, M. L. Oelze, M. Orescanin, M. Berggren and S. Johnson. Implementation of Scatterer Size Imaging on an Ultrasonic Breast Tomography Scanner. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 305-308, 2009.

• THESIS. Ma, Darryl C. Quantification of Ultrasound Contrast Agents using High-Frequency Ultrasound. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.

• J. McNew, R. Lavarello and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Sound Scattering from Two Concentric Fluid Spheres. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 1-4, 2009.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., Y. Yang and D. G. Simpson. Threshold Estimation and Superthreshold Behavior of Ultrasound-Induced Lung Hemorrhage in Rats: Role of Age Dependency. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 35, 129-135, 2009.

• J. R. Sanchez and M. L. Oelze. An Ultrasonic Imaging Speckle-Suppression and Contrast-Enhancement Technique by Means of Frequency Compounding and Coded Excitation. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 56, 1327-1339, 2009.

• J. R. Sanchez, D. Pocci and M. L. Oelze. A Novel Coded Excitation Scheme to Improve Spatial and Contrast Resolution of Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 56, 2111-2123, 2009.

• G. W. Swenson, Jr., M. J. White and M. L Oelze. Low-Frequency Sound Wave Parameter Measurement in Gravels. Applied Acoustics, 71, 45-51, 2009.

• T. A. Bigelow. Estimation of Ultrasound Tissue Attenuation Along the Propagation Path by Applying Multiple Filters to the Backscattered Echoes. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 1954-1957, 2009.

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2008

• A. Y. Ammi, R. O. Cleveland, J. Mamou, G. I. Wang, S. L. Bridal and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasonic Contrast Agent Shell Rupture Detected by Inertial Cavitation and Rebound Signals. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 55, April Cover, 2008.

• T. A. Bigelow, B. L. McFarlin, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and M. L. Oelze. In vivo ultrasonic attenuation slope estimates for detecting cervical ripening in rats: Preliminary results. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 1794-1800, 2008.

• M. M. Forbes, R. L. Steinberg and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Examination of Intertial Cavitation of Optison in Producing Sonoporation of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 34, 2009-2018, 2008.

• S. G. Kanzler and M. L. Oelze. Improved Scatterer Size Estimation Using Backscatter Coefficient Measurements with Coded Excitation and Pulse Compression. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 4599-4607, 2008

• Z. Khan, D.R. Boughner, J. C. Lacefield. Anisotropy of High-Frequency Integrated Backscatter from Aortic Valve Cusps. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 34, 1504-1512, 2008

• R. Lavarello and M. Oelze. A Study on the Reconstruction of Moderate Contrast Targets Using the Distorted Born Iterative Method. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 55, 112-124, 2008.

• R. J. Lavarello, J. R. Sanchez and M. L. Oelze. Improving the Quality of QUS Imaging Using Full Angular Spatial Compounding. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 32-35, 2008.

• R. J. Lavarello and M. L. Oelze. Two Approaches for Tomographic Density Imaging Using Inverse Scattering. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1298-1301, 2008.

• J. Mamou, M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Extended Three-Dimensional Impedance Map Methods for Identifying Ultrasonic Scattering Sites. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 1195-1208, 2008.

• J. Mamou, M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Computational Three-Dimensional Acoustic Tissue Models From Histologic Sections. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, February Cover, 55, 2008.

• C. C. Church, E. L. Carstensen, W. L. Nyborg, P. L. Carson, L. A. Frizzell, and M. R. Bailey. The Risk of Exposure to Diagnostic Ultrasound in Postnatal Subjects: Nonthermal Mechanisms. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 27, 565-592, 2008.

• THESIS. Hafez, Zachary. The Role of Microstreaming in Ultrasound-Enhanced Thrombolysis. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

• THESIS. McNew, Jared. Application of Acoustic Ray Tracing to Determine Sound Pathways into the Human Head. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., C. X. Deng, G. R. Harris, B. A. Herman, C. R. Merritt, N. Sanghvi, and J. F. Zachary. The Risk of Exposure to Diagnostic Ultrasound in Postnatal Subjects: Thermal Effects. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 27, 517-535, 2008.

• M. L. Oelze, R. J. Miller, J. P. Blue, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Estimation of the Acoustic Impedance of Lung Versus Level of Inflation for Different Species and Ages of Animals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 2340-2352, 2008.

• J. R. Sanchez, D. Pocci and M. L. Oelze. Using Resolution Enhancement Compression to Reduce Variance of Scatterer Size Estimates from Ultrasonic Backscattered Signals. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 36-39, 2008.

• M. Santin, S. L. Bridal, A. Haak and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Spectral and Temporal Signal Modifications Occurring Between Stable and Transient Inertial Cavitation. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 989-992, 2008.

• M. D. Torno, M. D. Kaminski, Y. Xie, R. E. Meyers, C. J. Mertz, X. Liu, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and A. J. Rosengart. Improvement of in vitro Thrombolysis Employing Magnetically-guided Microspheres. Thrombosis Research, 121, 799-811, 2008.

• M. Xie, D. G. Simpson and R. J. Carroll. Semiparametric Analysis of Heterogeneous Data Using Varying-Scale Generalized Linear Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, 650-660, 2008.

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2007

• T. A. Bigelow, B. L. McFarlin, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Correcting for Focusing when Estimating Attenuation for Tissue Characterization based on Gaussian Approximations of the Beam Profile. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2497-2500, 2007.

• T. A. Bigelow, R. J. Miller, J. P. Blue, Jr. and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Hemorrhage Near Fetal Rat Bone Exposed to Pulsed Ultrasound. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 33, 311-317, 2007.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Experimental Validation of the Spectral Fit Algorithm using Tissue Mimicking Phantoms. Acoustical Imaging, 28, 249-256, 2007.

• C. C. Church and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Evaluation of the Threshold for Lung Hemorrhage by Diagnostic Ultrasound and a Proposed New Safety Index. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 33, 810-818, 2007.

• THESIS. Ervin, Benjamin L. Monitoring Corrosion of Rebar Embedded in Mortar Using Guided Ultrasonic Waves. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

• M. M. Forbes and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. The Role of Inertial Cavitation of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Producing Sonoporation. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 424-427, 2007.

• M. M. Forbes and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Sonoporation. Proceedings of the International Congress on Ultrasound, Plenary Paper Number 1565, 2007,(Invited).

• A. Haak, R. Lavarello, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and B. Castaneda. Semiautomatic Detection of Microbubble Ultrasound Contrast Agent Destruction Applied to Definity^® Using Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 660-663, 2007.

• A. Haak and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Detection of Microbubble Ultrasound Contrast Agent Destruction Applied to Definity^®. Proceedings of the International Congress on Ultrasound, Paper Number 1719, 2007.

• THESIS. King, Jennifer. Dietary Magnesium Intake and Atherosclerothic Plaque Development in Rabbits. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

• R. Lavarello and M. Oelze. Image Reconstruction of Moderate Contrast Targets Using the Distored Born Iterative Method. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1993-1996, 2007.

• R. Lavarello, F. Kamalabadi and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. A Study of Pulse-echo Image Formation using Non-quadratic Regularization with Speckle-based Images. Acoustical Imaging, 28, 435-443, 2007.

• J. Mamou, M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Three-dimensional Acoustic Tissue Model: A Computational Tissue Phantom for Image Analyses. Acoustical Imaging, 28, 419-426, 2007.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasound - Biophysics Mechanisms. Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, 93, 212-255, 2007 (Invited).

• M. L. Oelze.Bandwidth and Resolution Enhancement Through Pulse Compression. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 54, 768-781, 2007.

• M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Quantitative Ultrasound Assessment of Breast Cancer Using a Multiparameter Approach. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 981-984, 2007.

• M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. High-frequency Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging of Solid Tumors in Mice. Acoustical Imaging, 28, 301-306, 2007.

• J. R. Sanchez and M. L. Oelze. An Ultrasonic Imaging Speckle Supression and Contrast Enhancement Technique by Means of Frequency Compounding and Coded Excitation. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 464-467, 2007.

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2006

• THESIS. Ammi, Azzdine. Detection et Caracterisation de la Destruction des Microbulles de Produit Contraste Ultrasanore (Detection and Characterization of Ultrasound Contrast Agent Microbubble Destruction. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.

• A. Y. Ammi, S. L. Bridal, J. Mamou, G. I. Wang and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Automatic Detection of Ultrasound Contrast Microbubble Shell Rupture. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 297-300, 2006.

• A. Y. Ammi, R. O. Cleveland, J. Mamou, G. I. Wang, S. L. Bridal and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasonic Contrast Agent Shell Rupture Detected by Inertial Cavitation and Rebound Signals. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 53, 126-136, 2006.

• A. Y. Ammi, R. O. Cleveland, J. Mamou, G. I. Wang, S. L. Bridal and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Detection of microbubble shell rupture. Congrès Français d,Acoustique, Tours, France pp 143-146, 2006.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Impact of Local Attenuation Approximations when Estimating Correlation Length from Backscattered Ultrasound Echoes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 546-553, 2006.

• M. F. Insana and M. L. Oelze. Advanced Ultrasonic Imaging Techniques for Breast Cancer Research. Book Chapter in Emerging Technologies in Breast Imaging and Mammography, J. S. Suri, R. M. Rangayyan, S. Laxminarayan, editors, American Scientific Publishers, Valencia, CA, 2006.

• R. Lavarello, F. Kamalabadi and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. A Regularized Inverse Approach to Ultrasonic Pulse-echo Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 25, 712-722, 2006.

• J. Mamou, M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Perspective on Biomedical Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp 112-116, May, 2006.

• B. L. McFarlin, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and R. C. White-Traut. Quantitative Ultrasound Assessment of the Rat Cervix. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 25, 1031-1040, 2006.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary.Superthreshold Behavior of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Rats: Role of Pulse Repetition Frequency and Pulse Duration. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 25, 873-882, 2006.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., Y. Yan, D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell, R. J. Miller, J. P. Blue, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Threshold Estimation of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Rabbits, and Comparison of Thresholds in Mice, Rats, Rabbits and Pigs. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 32, 1793-1804, 2006.

• M. L. Oelze. Improved Axial Resolution Using Pre-enhanced Chirps and Pulse Compression. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1085-1088, 2006.

• M. L. Oelze and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Application of Three Scattering Models to the Characterization of Solid Tumors in Mice. Ultrasonic Imaging, 28, 83-96, 2006.

• M. L. Oelze and J. F. Zachary. Examination of Cancer in Mouse Models Using High-frequency Quantitative Ultrasound. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 32, 1639-1648, 2006.

• S. A. Phatak, R. Ratnam, B. C. Wheeler, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and A. S. Feng. Effect of Reflectors on Sound-Source Localization with Two Microphones. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 54, 512-524, 2006.

• J. F. Zachary, J. P. Blue, R. J. Miller and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Vascular Lesions and s-Thrombomodulin Concentrations from Auricular Arteries of Rabbits Infused with Microbubble Contrast Agent and Exposed to Pulsed Ultrasound. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology,32, 1781-1791, 2006.

• J. F. Zachary, J. P. Blue, Jr., R. J. Miller, B. J. Ricconi, J. G. Eden and W. D. O'Brien, Jr.Lesions of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage are not Consistent with Thermal Injury. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 32, 1763-1770, 2006.

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2005

• A. Y. Ammi, R. O. Cleveland, J. Mamou, G. I. Wang, S. L. Bridal, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Double Passive Cavitaion Detection of Optison^TM Shell Rupture. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 846-849, 2005.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. A Model for Estimating Ultrasound Attenuation along the Propagation Path to the Fetus from Backscattered Waveforms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1210-1220, 2005.

• T. A. Bigelow, R. J. Miller, J. P. Blue, Jr. and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Hemorrhage near Fetal Rat Bone: Preliminary Results. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Therapuetic Ultrasound, 29-33, 2005.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Signal Processing Strategies that Improve Performance and Understanding of the Quantitative Ultrasound Spectral Fit Algorithm. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1808-1819, 2005.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Evaluation of the Spectral Fit Algorithm as Functions of Frequency Range and Δka_eff. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 52, 2003-2010, 2005.

• T. A. Bigelow, M. L. Oelze and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Estimation of Total Attenuation and Scatterer Size from Backscattered Ultrasound Waveforms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 1431-1439, 2005.

• THESIS. Lavarello, Roberto. Pulse-Echo Image Formation Using Nonquadratic Regularization with Speckle-Based Images. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.

• THESIS. Liu, Yuhui. Wave Propagation Study Using Finite Element Analysis. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.

• THESIS. Mamou, Jonathan. Ultrasonic Characterization of Three Animal Mammary Tumors from Three-Dimensional Acoustic Tissue Models. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.

• J. Mamou, M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Ultrasound Characterization of Three Animal Mammary Tumors from Three-Dimensional Acoustic Tissue Models. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 866-869, 2005

• J. Mamou, M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and J. F. Zachary. Identifying Ultrasonic Scattering Sites from Three-dimensional Impedance Maps. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 413-423, 2005.

• THESIS. McFarlin, Barbara. Quantitative Ultrasound Assessment of the Rat Cervix. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and Yuhui Liu. Evaluation of Acoustic Propagation Paths into the Human Head. In HFM Symposium on New Directions for Improving Audio Effectiveness, pp. 15-1 - 15-24, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary. Superthreshold Behavior of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Rats: Role of Pulse Repetition Frequency and Exposure Duration Revisited. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 24, 339-348, 2005.

• K. A. Wear, T. A. Stiles, G. R. Frank, E. L. Madsen, F. Cheng, E. J. Feleppa, C. S. Hall, B. S. Kim, P. Lee, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., M. L. Oelze, B. I. Raju, K. K. Shung, T. A. Wilson and J. R. Yuan. Interlaboratory Comparison of Ultrasonic Backscatter Coefficient Measurements from 2 to 9 MHz. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 24, 1235-1250, 2005.

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2004

• N. Akashi, J. Kushibiki and F. Dunn. Frequency Depencence of Acoustic Properties of Aqueous Glucose Solutions in the VHF/UHF Range. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 539-544, 2004.

• A. Y. Ammi, J. Mamou, G. I. Wang, R. O. Cleveland, S. L. Bridal and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Determining Thresholds for Contrast Agent Collapse. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 346-349, 2004.

• THESIS. Bigelow, Tim. Estimating the Medical Ultrasound In Vivo Power Spectrum. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Scatterer Size Estimation in Pulse-echo Ultrasound using Focused Sources: Theoretical Approximations and Simulation Analysis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 578-593, 2004.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Scatterer Size Estimation in Pulse-echo Ultrasound using Focused Sources: Calibration Measurements and Phantom Experiments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 594-602, 2004.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Estimating the Thermal Dose from Backscattered RF Echoes. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound, pp 151-153, 2004.

• M. A. Haun, D. L. Jones and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Overdetermined Least-squares Aberration Estimates Using Common-midpoint Signals. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 23, 1205-1220, 2004.

• J. B. Larsen, C. R. Lansing, R. C. Bilger, B. C. Wheeler, S. A. Phatak, M. E. Lockwood, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and A. S. Feng. Speech Perception in Noise with a Two-sensor Frequency-domain Minimum-variance (FMV) Beamforming Algorithm. Acoustics Research Letters Online, 5, 100-105, 2004.

• M. E. Lockwood, D. L. Jones, R. C. Bilger, C. R. Lansing, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., B. C. Wheeler and A. S. Feng. Performance of Time- and Frequency-domain Binaural Beamformers Based on Recorded Signals from Real Rooms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 379-391, 2004.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary. Effect of Contrast Agent on the Incidence and Magnitude of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Rats. Echocardiography, 21, 417-422, 2004.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., Y. Yang and D. G. Simpson. Evaluation of Unscanned-mode Soft-tissue Thermal Index for Rectangular Sources and Proposed New Indices. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 30, 965-972, 2004.

• M. L. Oelze and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Defining Optimal Axial and Lateral Resolution for Estimating Scatterer Properties from Volumes using Ultrasound Backscatter. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 3226-3234, 2004.

• M. L. Oelze and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Improved Scatterer Property Estimates from Ultrasound Backscatter for Small Gate Lengths using a Gate-edge Correction Factor. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 3212-3223, 2004.

• M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., J. P. Blue and J. F. Zachary. Differentiation and Characterization of Rat Mammary Fibroadenomas and 4T1 Mouse Carcinomas using Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 23, 764-771, 2004.

• R. Ratnam, D. L. Jones and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Fast Algorithms for Blind Estimation of Reverberation Time. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 11, 537-540. 2004.

• R. Seip, W. Chen, R. Carlson, L. Frizzell, G. Warren, N. Smith, K. Saleh, G. Gerber, K. Shung, H. Guo, and N. T. Sanghvi. Annular and Cylindrical Phased Array Geometries for Transrectal High-Intensity Focuesed Ultrasound (HIFU) using PZT and Piezocomposite Materials. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound, 2004.

• D. G. Simpson, M.-H. Ho, Y. Yang, J. Zhou, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Excess Risk Thresholds in Ultrasound Safety Studies: Statistical Methods for Data on Occurrence and Size of Lesions. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 30, 1289-1295, 2004.

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2003

• Z. M. Benenson, A. B. Elizarov, T. V. Yakovleva, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. High-Resolution and Fast 3D Ultrasonic Imaging Technique. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1561-1564, 2003.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Scatterer Size Estimation Using A Generalized Ultrasound Attenuation-Compensation Function to Correct for Focusing. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1026-1029, 2003.

• L. A. Frizzell, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Effect of Pulse Polarity and Energy on Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Rats. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 2912-2926, 2003.

• THESIS. Haun, M.A. New Approaches to Aberration Correction in Medical Ultrasound Imaging. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

• M. A. Haun, D. L. Jones and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Aberration Correction with OFF: The Overdetermined Fan-filtering Algorithm. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1231-1234, 2003.

• J. B. Larsen, C. D. Schmitz, C. R. Lansing, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., B. C. Wheeler and A. S. Feng. Acoustic scene analysis using estimated impulse responses. The 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, vol 1, pp. 725-729, 2003.

• M. E. Lockwood, D. L. Jones, C. R. Lansing, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., B. C. Wheeler and A. S. Feng. Effect of multiple nonstationary sources on MVDR beamformers. The 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, vol 1, pp. 730-734, 2003.

• J. Mamou, M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasound Scatterer Size Estimation Technique Based on a 3D Acoustic Impedance Map from Histologic Sections. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1022-1025, 2003.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary. Threshold Estimates and Superthreshold Behavior of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Rats: Role of Pulse Duration. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 29, 1625-1634, 2003.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary. Threshold Estimates of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Rats: Role of Pulse Duration. Proceedings of the 2003 World Congress on Ultrasound, pp. 1153-1156, 2003.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, M.-H. Ho, R. J. Miller, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary. Superthreshold Behavior and Threshold Estimation of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Pigs: Role of Age Dependency. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 50, 153-169, 2003.

• M. L. Oelze, R. J. Miller, J. P. Blue, Jr., J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Impedance Measurements of Ex Vivo Rat Lung at Different Volumes of Inflation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 3384-3393, 2003.

• M. L. Oelze and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Erratum: Frequency-dependent Attenuation-compensation Functions for Ultrasonic Signals Backscattered from Random Media [J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 111, 2308-2319 (2002)] Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 2967-2968, 2003.

• M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Parametric Imaging of Solid Tumors using Average Scatter Size and Acoustic Concentration. Proceedings of the 2003 World Congress on Ultrasound, pp. 641-644, 2003.

• M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Differentiation of Tumor Types In Vivo by Scatterer Property Estimates and Parametric Images Using Ultrasound Backscatter. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp 1014-1017, 2003.

• M. L. Oelze, J. M. Sabatier and R. Raspet.Roughness Measurements of Soil Surfaces by Acoustic Backscatter. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 67, 241-250, 2003.

• R. Ratnam, D. L. Jones, B. C. Wheeler, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., C. R. Lansing and A. S. Feng. Blind Estimation of Reverberation Time. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 2877-2892, 2003.

• THESIS. Sakai, Stacie. Radiation Force Measurements at a Water-Air Interface. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

• S. S. Sakai, J. P. Blue, Jr., and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Fountain Effect Produced by an Ultrasound Field. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 50, January Cover, 2003.

• R. Seip, W. Chen, J. Tavakkoli, L. Frizzell, and N. T. Sanghvi. High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Phased Arrays: Recent Developments in Transrectal Transducers and Driving Electronics Design. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound, pp. 423-428, 2003.

• THESIS. Yin, Xiangtao. The Study of Ultrasonic Pulse-Echo Subwavelength Defect Detection Mechanism. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

• X. Yin, S. A. Morris, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Experimental Spatial Sampling Study of the Real-Time Ultrasonic Pulse-Echo BAI-mode Imaging Technique. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 50, 428-440, 2003.

• X. Yin, S. A. Morris, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasonic Pulse-echo Subwavelength Defect Detection Mechanism: Experiment and Simulation. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 22, 103-115, 2003.

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2002

• Z. M. Benenson, A. B. Elizarov, T. V. Yakovleva, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Approach to 3D Ultrasound High Resolution Imaging for Mechanically Moving Large-Aperture Transducer Based upon 3D Fourier Transform. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 49, 1665-1685, 2002.

• Z. M. Benenson, A. B. Elizarov, T. V. Yakovleva, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Depth-independent Narrow Beamwidth 3D Ultrasonic Image Formation Technique. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1549-1552, 2002.

• Z. M. Benenson, A. B. Elizarov, T. V. Yakovleva, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Moving Linear Array Technique: Improved Lateral Resolution with Decreased Scan Time to Form a 3D Image. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1620-1623, 2002.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Experimental Evaluation of Indicators of Nonlinearity for Use in Ultrasound Transducer Characterizations. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 28, 1509-1520, 2002.

• T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Experimental Evaluation of Some Possible Nonlinearity Indicators. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1359-1362, 2002.

• T. H. El-Bialy, R. L. Magin, C. A. Evans, A. E-M. Zaki, T. J. Royston, and L. A. Frizzell. The Effect of Pulsed Ultrasound on Mandibular Distraction. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 30, 1251-1261, 2002.

• C. H. Frazier, W. J. Hughes and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. A High Frequency Amplitude-Steered Array for Real-Time Volumetric Imaging. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 2742-2752, 2002.

• C. H. Frazier, W. J. Hughes and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. A Volumetric Imaging with an Amplitude-Steered Array. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 2753-2762, 2002.

L. A. Frizzell, J. Tan, and G. Warren. Theoretical Results for New Cylindrical Ultrasound Phased Array for Prostate Treatment. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound, pp. 384-390, 2002.

• THESIS. Haun, Mark Alden. The Fractionally Spaced Vector Constant Modulus Algorithm. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

• M. A. Haun, D. L. Jones and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Efficient Three-dimensional Imaging from a Small Cylindrical Aperture. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 49, 861-870, 2002.

• M. A. Haun, D. L. Jones and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Adaptive Focusing Through Layered Media Using the Geophysical "Time Migration" Concept. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1594-1597, 2002.

• THESIS. Mamou, Jonathan. Subsurface Acoustic Imaging in a Highly Attenuating Material. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

• R. J. Miller, L. A. Frizzell, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Attenuation Coefficient and Propagation Speed Estimates of Intercostal Tissue as a Function of Pig Age. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 49, 1421-1429, 2002.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., J. G. Abbott, M. E. Stratmeyer, G. R. Harris, M. E. Schafer, T. A. Siddiqi, C. R. B. Merritt, F. A Duck and P. J Bendick. Acoustic Output Upper Limits: Point-Counter Point. Proposition: Should Upper Limits be Retained? Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 21, 1335-1341, 2002.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., J. M. Kramer, T. G. Waldrop, L. A. Frizzell, R. J. Miller, J. P. Blue and J. F. Zachary. Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage: Role of Acoustic Boundary Conditions at the Pleural Surface. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, 1102-1109, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Frequency-dependent Attenuation-compensation Functions for Ultrasonic Signals Backscattered from Random Media. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, 2308-2319, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Method of Improved Scatterer Size Estimation and Application to Parametric Imaging using Ultrasound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 3053-3063, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze, W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and R. G. Darmody. Measurement of Attenuation and Speed of Sound in Soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 66, 788-796, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasonic RF-based Imaging for the Purposes of Characterizing the Microstructure of Solid Tumors. Proceedings of the 2002 SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging and Signal Processing, vol. 4687, pp. 152-158, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Characterization of Tissue Microstructure using Ultrasonic Backscatter: Theory and Technique Optimization using a Gaussian Form Factor. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 1202-1211, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze, J. M. Sabatier and R. Raspet. Application of an Acoustic Backscatter Technique to Characterizing the Roughness of Porous Soil. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, 1565-1577, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Parametric Imaging of Rat Mammary Tumors In Vivo for the Purposes of Tissue Characterization. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 21, 1201-1210, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze, J. M. Sabatier and R. Raspet. Application of Acoustic Backscatter to the Characterization of the Roughness of Outdoor Soil Surfaces. Fourth Symposium on Agroacoustics, 175-192, 2002.

• M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasonic Quantification of the Tissue Microstructure of Spontaneous Mammary Tumors in Rats. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1338-1341, 2002.

• R. T. Towa, R. J. Miller, L. A. Frizzell, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Attenuation Coefficient and Propagation Speed Estimates of Rat and Pig Intercostal Tissue as a function of Temperature. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 49, 1411-1420, 2002.

• X. Yin, S. A. Morris and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Numerical Evaluation of Ultrasonic Pulse-echo Subwavelength Defect Detection. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 709-712, 2002.

• J. F. Zachary, S. A. Hartleben, L. A. Frizzell, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Arrhythmias in Rat Hearts Exposed to Pulsed Ultrasound after Intravenous Injection of a Contrast Agent. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 21, 1347-1356, 2002.

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2001

• J. E. Assentoft, H. Gresersen and W. D. O'Brien Jr. Propagation Speed of Sound Assessment in the Layers of the Guinea-pig Esophagus by Means of Acoustic Microscopy. Ultrasonics, 39, 263-268, 2001.

• THESIS. Bigelow, Tim. Signal Processing Issues in Reflection Tomography. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

• THESIS. Cadalli, Nail. Signal Processing Issues in Reflection Tomography. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

• THESIS. Darwish, Naser H. Acoustic Radiation Pressure-Induced Fracture of Water-Air Interface. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

• L. A. Frizzell, J. M. Kramer, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Response to "Comments on 'Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage is not Caused by Inertial Cavitation'" [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 1737 (2001)]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 1738-1739, 2001. (This Letter to the Editor in response to: R. E. Apfel. Comments on "Comments on 'Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage is not Caused by Inertial Cavitation. Acoust. Soc. Am. 108, 1290-1297 (2000)]." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 1737, 2001)

• L. A. Frizzell, J. M. Kramer, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Comment on Apfel's Second Comment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 1742, 2001. (This Letter to the Editor in response to: R. E. Apfel. Reply to Frizzell et al.'s Comment to our Comment Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 1740-1741, 2001)

• THESIS. Huang, Jun. Articulatory Speech Synthesis and Speech Production Modelling. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

• J. M. Kramer, T. G. Waldrop, L. A. Frizzell, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Cardiopulmonary Function in Rats with Lung Hemorrhage Induced by Pulsed Ultrasound Exposure. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 20, 1197-1206, 2001.

• THESIS. Lassale, Virginie. Performance and Trade-Offs of an Amplitude-Steered Array. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

• C. Liu, B. C. Wheeler, W. D. O'Brien,Jr, C. R. Lansing and R. C. Bilger, D. Jones, A.S. Feng A Two-microphone Dual Delay-line Approach for Extraction of a Speech Sound in the Presence of Multiple Interferers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 3218-3231, 2001.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., L. A. Frizzell, D. J. Schaeffer and J. F. Zachary. Superthreshold Behavior of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Mice and Rats: Role of Pulse Repetition Frequency and Exposure Duration. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 27, 267-277, 2001.

• W. D. O'Brien Jr., D. Miller and W. R. Hendee. Point/Counterpoint: Diagnostic Ultrasound Should be Performed without Upper Intensity Limits. Medical Physics, 28, 1-3, 2001.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr. and T. A. Siddiqi. Obstetric Sonography: The Output Display Standard and Ultrasound Bioeffects. In Sonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Principles and Practice, 6th ed., A. C. Fleischer, F. A. Manning, P. Jeanty and R. Romero (eds.), pp 29-48, McGraw-Hill, NY 2001.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary. Superthreshold Behavior and Threshold Estimates of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Rats: Role of Beamwidth. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 48, 1695-1705, 2001.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., D. G. Simpson, L. A. Frizzell and J. F. Zachary. Age-dependent Threshold and Superthreshold Behavior of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Pigs. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1315-1318, 2001.

• M. L. Oelze, J. M. Sabatier and R. Raspet. Roughness Characterization of Porous Soil with Acoustic Backscatter. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 1826-1832, 2001.

• M. L. Oelze, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. B-mode Images of Spontaneous Rat Mammary Tumors Enhanced by Estimated Scatterer Parameters. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1261-1264, 2001.

• A. Ozguler, S. A. Morris and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Ultrasonic Monitoring of Seal Quality in Flexible Food Packages. Polymer Engineering and Science, 41, 830-839, 2001.

• THESIS. Rodarte, E and Miller, NR. Flow-Induced Noise in Heat Exchangers. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

• N. N. Shah, P. K. Rooney, A. Ozguler, S. A. Morris and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. A Real-Time Approach to Defect Seal Defects in Food Packages using Ultrasound. Journal of Food Protection, 64, 1392-1398, 2001.

• J. S. Tan, L. A. Frizzell, N. Sanghvi, R. Seip, J. Wu, and J. T. Kouzmanoff. Ultrasound Phased Arrays for Prostate Treatment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 3055-3064, 2001.

• G. A. Teotico, R. J. Miller, L. A. Frizzell, J. F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Attenuation Coefficient Estimates of Mouse and Rat Chest Wall. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 48, 593-601, 2001.

• K. A. Topp, J.F. Zachary and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Quantifying B-mode Images of In Vivo Rat Mammary Tumor with Frequency Dependence of Backscatter. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 20, 605-612, 2001.

• X. Yin, S. A. Morris and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Investigation of Spatial Sampling Resolution of the Real-time Ultrasound Pulse-Echo BAI-mode Image. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 729-732, 2001.

• J. F. Zachary, L. A. Frizzell, K. S. Norell, J. P. Blue, Jr., R. J. Miller and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Temporal and Spatial Evaluation of Lesion Reparative Responses Following Superthreshold Exposure of Rat Lung to Pulsed Ultrasound. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 27, 829-839, 2001.

• J. F. Zachary, J. M. Sempsrott, L. A. Frizzell, D. G. Simpson and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Superthreshold Behavior and Threshold Estimation of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Mice and Rats. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 48, 581-592, 2001.

• J. F. Zachary, S. A. Hartleben, L. A. Frizzell and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Contrast Agent-induced Cardiac Arrhythmias in Rats. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1709-1712, 2001.

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2000

• N. Akashi, J. Kushibiki, and F. Dunn. Measurements of Acoustic Properties of Dextran Solutions in the VHF/UHF range. Ultrasonics, 38, 915-919, 2000.

• A. Alippi, E. Benes, I. Bjorno, J. A. D. Briggs, L. A. Crum, N. de Jong, F. Dunn, A.E. Every, J.A. Gallego-Juarez, J. Greenleaf, B. Hosten, J .A. Jensen, T. A. Mason, W. G. Mayer, W. N. McDicken, N. G. Pace, S. S. Rokhlin, A. Sliwinski, S. Ueha, R. L. Weaver, O. Wright (eds). Proceedings of the Ultrasonics International 1999; joint with 1999 World Congress on Ultrasonics, Ultrasonics 38, 1-820, 2000.

• J. E. Assentoft, H. Gregersen and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Determination of Biomechanical Properties in the Guinea-Pig Esophagus by Means of High Frequency Ultrasound and Impedance Planimetry. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 45, 1260-1266, 2000.

• THESIS. Benson, Jonathan William. Acoustic Coherence Imaging Through the Atmosphere. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

• F. Dunn. Early History of the Bioacoustics Laboratory (BRL) at the University of Illinois, in Biological Effects of Ultrasound: Development of Safety Guidelines. In W. L. Nyborg.Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 26, 911-964, 2000.

• THESIS. Ergin, Arif Ahmet. Plane-Wave Time-Domain Algorithms for Efficient Analysis of Three-Dimensional Transient Wave Phenomena. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

• THESIS. Frazier, Catherine Ann Hillsley. A Two-Dimensional Amplitude-Steered Array for Real-Time Volumetric Acoustic Imaging. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

• C. H. Frazier, W. J. Hughes and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Analysis of Resolution for an Amplitude Steered Array. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107, 2430-2436, 2000.

• C. H. Frazier, N. Cadalli, D. C. Munson, Jr. and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Acoustic Imaging of Objects Buried in Soil. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 147-158, 2000.

• C. H. Frazier and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Image Formation with the Amplitude-steered Array using Time-frequency Distribution. Acoustical Imaging, 25, 535-542, 2000.

• C. H. Frazier, Q. Tian, A. Ozguler, S. A. Morris and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. High Contrast Ultrasound Images of Defects in Food Package Seals. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 47, 530-539, 2000.

• M. A. Haun, D. L. Jones and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Efficient Three-dimensional Imaging from a Small Cylindrical Aperture. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1589-1592, 2000.

• C. K. Holland, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., A. F. Tarantal, L. A. Crum and P. L. Ferrer. Bioeffects in Tissues with Gas Bodies. In: Nonthermal Mechanical Bioeffects. Edited by B. Fowlkes and C. K. Holland, pp. 97-108 (Sec 4), American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Laural, Maryland. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 19, 67-168, 2000.

• C. Liu, B. C. Wheeler, W. D. O'Brien, Jr., R. C. Bilger, C. R. Lansing and A. S. Feng. Localization of Multiple Sound Sources with Two Microphones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 1888-1905, 2000.

• R. L. Magin, J. K. Lee, A. Klintsova, K. I. Carnes, and F. Dunn. Biological Effects of Long-duration, High-field (4T) MRI on Growth and Development in the Mouse. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 12, 140-149, 2000.

• THESIS. Murphy, Jeffrey John. Measurement and Modeling of Pressure-Driven Transient Burning of Solid Propellants. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

• W. L. Nyborg, P. L. Carson, E. L. Carstensen, F. Dunn, D. L. Miller, M. W. Miller, H. E. Thompson and M. C. Ziskin. Exposure Criteria for Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound: II Criteria Based on all Known Mechanisms, (National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD, 2000), NCRP Report 140, xiv + 574 pages.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., L. A. Frizzell, D. J. Schaeffer and J. F. Zachary. Role of Pulse Repetition Frequency and Exposure Duration on the Superthreshold Behavior of Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage in Adult Mice and Rats. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1291-1294, 2000.

• W. D. O'Brien, Jr., L. A. Frizzell, R. M. Weigel, and J. F. Zachary. Ultrasound-induced Lung Hemorrhage is not Caused by Inertial Cavitation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 1290-1297, 2000.

• A. Ozguler, S. A. Morris and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Food Package Inspection by Ultrasonic Imaging. National Food Processors Association Journal, pp 20-22, February, 2000.

• THESIS. Sempsrott, Jason Matthew. Experimental Evaluation of Acoustic Saturation. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

• J. S. Tan, L. A. Frizzell, N. T. Sanghvi, R. Seip, J. S. Wu, and J. T. Kouzmanoff. Design of Focused Ultrasound Phased Arrays for Prostate Treatment. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp1247-1251, 2000.

• Q. Tian, B. Sun, A. Ozguler, S. A. Morris and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Parameter Modeling in Food Package Defect Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 47, 635-643, 2000.

• K. A. Topp and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Anisotropy of Ultrasonic Propagation and Scattering Properties in Fresh Rat Skeletal Muscle In Vitro. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107, 1027-1033, 2000.

• J.F. Zachary, L.A. Frizzell, J.G. Abbott, F. Dunn and N.T. Sanghvi. Selected Biological Properties of Tissues: Potential Determinants of Susceptibility of Ultrasound-Induced Bioeffects. Edited by B. Fowlkes and C. K. Holland, pp. 85-96 (Sec 3), American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Laural, Maryland. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 19, 67-168, 2000.

• J. F. Zachary, L. A. Frizzell and W. D. O'Brien, Jr. Lesion Resolution Following Exposure of Rat Lung to Pulsed Ultrasound. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1295-1298, 2000.

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