Ultrasonics

Article	Citations
A review of ultrasonic testing applications in additive manufacturing: Defect evaluation, material characterization, and process control	180
Environmental and operational conditions effects on Lamb wave based structural health monitoring systems: A review	137
So you think you can DAS? A viewpoint on delay-and-sum beamforming	126
Shear horizontal wave transducers for structural health monitoring and nondestructive testing: A review	108
A critical review on ultrasonic-assisted fouling control and cleaning of fouled membranes	70
A generic deep learning framework to classify thyroid and breast lesions in ultrasound images	63
Combined two-level damage identification strategy using ultrasonic guided waves and physical knowledge assisted machine learning	61
Improved forward model for quantitative pulse-echo speed-of-sound imaging	61
A review of recent advances in the single- and multi-degree-of-freedom ultrasonic piezoelectric motors	51
Nonlinear ultrasonics-based technique for monitoring damage progression in reinforced concrete structures	46
A nonlinear ultrasonic SHM method for impact damage localisation in composite panels using a sparse array of piezoelectric PZT transducers	43
Real time SVD-based clutter filtering using randomized singular value decomposition and spatial downsampling for micro-vessel imaging on a Verasonics ultrasound system	38
Ultrasound-based identification of damage in wind turbine blades using novelty detection	37
A softmax classifier for high-precision classification of ultrasonic similar signals	36
High-resolution Lamb waves dispersion curves estimation and elastic property inversion	35
Laser Ultrasonic inspection of a Wire + Arc Additive Manufactured (WAAM) sample with artificial defects	34
Finite element simulation and experimental investigation of residual stresses in ultrasonic assisted turning	33
Simulation and experimental study of ultrasonic cutting for aluminum honeycomb by disc cutter	32
Evolution of acoustic softening effect on ultrasonic-assisted micro/meso-compression behavior and microstructure	31
Acoustic properties across the human skull	31
CNN-LSTM network-based damage detection approach for copper pipeline using laser ultrasonic scanning	31
Therapeutic ultrasound experiments in vitro: Review of factors influencing outcomes and reproducibility	29
Hidden corrosion detection using laser ultrasonic guided waves with multi-frequency local wavenumber estimation	29
Recent applications of ultrasonic waves in improved oil recovery: A review of techniques and results	29
Modeling and simulation of backward combined harmonic generation induced by one-way mixing of longitudinal ultrasonic guided waves in a circular pipe	28

Effect of radial high-speed ultrasonic vibration cutting on machining performance during finish turning of hardened steel	28
A review on guided-ultrasonic-wave-based structural health monitoring: From fundamental theory to machine learning techniques	28
Online acoustic emission source localization in concrete structures using iterative and evolutionary algorithms	28
An improved nonlinear ultrasonic technique for detecting and monitoring impact induced damage in composite plates	28
Temperature prediction of ultrasonic vibration-assisted milling	27
Modal analysis and moving performance of a single-mode linear ultrasonic motor	27
A single-modal linear ultrasonic motor based on multi vibration modes of PZT ceramics	27
Tumor segmentation in automated whole breast ultrasound using bidirectional LSTM neural network and attention mechanism	27
Towards using convolutional neural network to locate, identify and size defects in phased array ultrasonic testing	26
The complexity of surface acoustic wave fields used for microfluidic applications	26
Active source localization in wave guides based on machine learning	26
Rayleigh wave propagation in a homogeneous centrosymmetric flexoelectric half-space	26
Research on the influence of heat treatment on residual stress of TC4 alloy produced by laser additive manufacturing based on laser ultrasonic technique	25
Design of a resonant Luneburg lens for surface acoustic waves	25
Magneto-sonothrombolysis with combination of magnetic microbubbles and nanodroplets	25
Ultrasonic elastography to assess biomechanical properties of the optic nerve head and peripapillary sclera of the eye	25
A multi-pillar piezoelectric stack transducer for nanodroplet mediated intravascular sonothrombolysis	24
Nondestructive evaluation of steel-concrete composite structure using high-frequency ultrasonic guided wave	24
Calculation of geometric flow profile correction factor for ultrasonic flow meter using semi-3D simulation technique	24
Surface/sub-surface crack-scattered nonlinear rayleigh waves: A full analytical solution based on elastodynamic reciprocity theorem	24
FEM simulation and comparison of PMN-PT single crystals based phased array ultrasonic transducer by alternating current poling and direct current poling	23
Damage characterization using CNN and SAE of broadband Lamb waves	23
High performance drilling of T800 CFRP composites by combining ultrasonic vibration and optimized drill structure	23
Supervised learning strategy for classification and regression tasks applied to aeronautical structural health monitoring problems	23
Cure monitoring and damage identification of CFRP using embedded piezoelectric sensors network	22
Determining the crystallographic orientation of hexagonal crystal structure materials with surface acoustic wave velocity measurements	22
Effect of ultrasonic shot peening duration on microstructure, corrosion behavior and cell response of cp-Ti	22
Multi-frequency localized wave energy for delamination identification using laser ultrasonic guided wave	22
Complete phononic band gaps in the 3D Yablonovite structure with spheres	22
Flexible ultrasonic array for breast-cancer diagnosis based on a self-shape–estimation algorithm	21
An amplitude prediction model for a giant magnetostrictive ultrasonic transducer	21
Residual stress relief of welded aluminum alloy plate using ultrasonic vibration	21
A modelling framework for simulation of ultrasonic guided wave-based inspection of welded rail tracks	21
Experimental identification of high order Lamb waves and estimation of the mechanical properties of a dry human skull	21
The acoustic radiation force of a focused ultrasound beam on a suspended eukaryotic cell	21
A high-sensitivity and long-distance structural health monitoring system based on bidirectional SH wave phased array	21
Deconvolution of ultrasonic signals using a convolutional neural network	21
Quantitative defect inspection in the curved composite structure using the modified probabilistic tomography algorithm and fusion of damage index	20
Lamb wave-based mapping of plate structures via frontier exploration	20
Parameter estimation of the homodyned K distribution based on an artificial neural network for ultrasound tissue characterization	20
Imaging damage in plate waveguides using frequency-domain multiple signal classification (F-MUSIC)	20
Nonlinear mixing of non-collinear guided waves at a contact interface	20
A metamaterial ultrasound mode convertor for complete transformation of Lamb waves into shear horizontal waves	20
A reverse time migration-based multistep angular spectrum approach for ultrasonic imaging of specimens with irregular surfaces	20
An efficient Lamb wave-based virtual refined time-reversal method for damage localization in plates using broadband measurements	20
Multi-objective optimization for joint actuator and sensor placement for guided waves based structural health monitoring using fibre Bragg grating sensors	19
Ultrasonic mapping of hybrid additively manufactured 420 stainless steel	19
Recent advances in vascular ultrasound imaging technology and their clinical implications	19
A review of ultrasonic sensing and machine learning methods to monitor industrial processes	19
Quantifying adhesive thickness and adhesion parameters using higher-order SH guided waves	19

Fully noncontact inspection of closed surface crack with nonlinear laser ultrasonic testing method	19
Discrimination of nano-objects via cluster analysis techniques applied to time-resolved thermo-acoustic microscopy	19
Development and validation of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound systems for highly controlled in vitro cell stimulation	19
Ultrasound super-resolution imaging with a hierarchical Kalman tracker	18
Sim-to-Real: Employing ultrasonic guided wave digital surrogates and transfer learning for damage visualization	18
Long-distance structural health monitoring of buried pipes using pitch-catch T(0,1) wave piezoelectric ring array transducers	18
Three-dimensional damage quantification of low velocity impact damage in thin composite plates using phased-array ultrasound	18
In-situ ultrasound-assisted control of polymeric membrane fouling	18
Characterization of heat transfer and friction loss of water turbulent flow in a narrow rectangular duct under 25–40 kHz ultrasonic waves	17
The zero-frequency component of bulk waves in solids with randomly distributed micro-cracks	17
Proposal for a novel elliptical ultrasonic aspirator and its fundamental performance in cartilage removal	17
Summation of high-frequency Langevin transducers vibrations for increasing of ultrasonic radiator power	17
Ultrasound deep learning for monitoring of flow–vessel dynamics in murine carotid artery	17
Study of a spiral-coil EMAT for rail subsurface inspection	17
Investigation of thermo-acoustoelastic guided waves by semi-analytical finite element method	17
Inversion of surface damage and residual stress in ground silicon wafers by laser surface acoustic wave technology	17
Analytical and numerical investigations of one-way mixing of Lamb waves in a thin plate	17
Experiments and modelling of ultrasonic waves in composite plates under varying temperature	17
MR relaxation properties of tissue-mimicking phantoms	17
Probing the limits of full-field linear local defect resonance identification for deep defect detection	17
Elastic stubbed metamaterial plate with torsional resonances	17
Investigations on a mathematical model for optimum impedance compensation of a giant magnetostrictive ultrasonic transducer and its resonance characteristics	16
Characterization of a soft tissue-mimicking agar/wood powder material for MRgFUS applications	16
Measurement of fastening force using dry-coupled ultrasonic waves	16
Application of the reciprocity principle to evaluation of mode-converted scattered shear horizontal (SH) wavefields in tapered thinning plates	16
Development of in-bore magnetostrictive transducer for ultrasonic guided wave based-inspection of steam generator tubes of PFBR	16
Deep learning approach to skin layers segmentation in inflammatory dermatoses	16
The fundamental ultrasonic edge wave mode: Propagation characteristics and potential for distant damage detection	16
The effects of temperature and frequency dispersion on sound speed in bulk poly (vinyl alcohol) poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels caused by the phase transition	16
Research on ultra-low speed driving method of traveling wave ultrasonic motor for CMG	16
Modeling lamb wave propagation in visco-elastic composite plates using a fifth-order plate theory	16
DSWE-Net: A deep learning approach for shear wave elastography and lesion segmentation using single push acoustic radiation force	16
Surface circular-arc defects interacted by laser-generated Rayleigh wave	16
Local damage detection by nonlinear coda wave interferometry combined with time reversal	16
High frequency ultrasound nonlinear scattering from porphyrin nanobubbles	16
Structural design of an acoustic planar array transducer by using the equivalent circuit method	15
Experimental realization of ultrasonic retroreflection tweezing via metagratings	15
Particle size distribution analysis of oil-in-water emulsions using static and dynamic ultrasound scattering techniques	15
Deep learning-based anomaly detection from ultrasonic images	15
Broad bandwidth air-coupled micromachined ultrasonic transducers for gas sensing	15
High-frequency vibration effects on the hole integrity in rotary ultrasonic drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic composites	15
A multi-degree-of-freedom clamping type traveling-wave ultrasonic motor	15
Deep reconstruction of high-quality ultrasound images from raw plane-wave data: A simulation and in vivo study	15
Deep learning inversion with supervision: A rapid and cascaded imaging technique	15
Low-frequency Lamb wave mixing for fatigue damage evaluation using phase-reversal approach	15
Influences of microparticle radius and microchannel height on SSAW-based acoustophoretic aggregation	15
Dispersion curve calculation in viscoelastic tissue-mimicking materials using non-parametric, parametric, and high-resolution methods	15
Time-frequency analysis of laser-excited surface acoustic waves based on synchrosqueezing transform	15
Mode conversion of SH guided waves with symmetry inversion in plates	15
The research on propagation characteristics of acoustic emission signals in stiffened plates based on the multipath propagation model	15
Ultrasonic image denoising using machine learning in point contact excitation and detection method	15
Non-contact imaging of subsurface defects using a scanning laser source	15
Longitudinal effects of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound on osteoporosis and osteoporotic bone defect in ovariectomized rats	14
Damage localization in piezo-ceramic using ultrasonic waves excited by dual point contact excitation and detection scheme	14
Weighted non-linear beamformers for low cost 2-element receive ultrasound imaging system	14
Quick and repeatable shear modulus measurement based on torsional resonance using a piezoelectric torsional transducer	14
Minimally invasive therapeutic ultrasound: Ultrasound-guided ultrasound ablation in neuro-oncology	14
Acoustic impedance measurement of tissue mimicking materials by using scanning acoustic microscopy	14
Non-contact measurement of the thickness of a surface film using a superimposed ultrasonic standing wave	14
Damage identification using wave damage interaction coefficients predicted by deep neural networks	14
An improved method to estimate ultrasonic absorption in agar-based gel phantom using thermocouples and MR thermometry	14
Improvement mechanism of energy conversion efficiency in ultrasonic motor with flexible rotor	14
Advanced numerical simulations considering crack orientation for fatigue damage quantification using nonlinear guided waves	14
Ultrasonic-promoted rapid transient liquid phase bonding of high volume fraction SiC particle reinforced aluminum-based metal matrix composite in low temperature	14
Modeling and simulation of static component generation of Lamb wave propagation in a layered plate	14
Generalised bisection method for optimum ultrasonic ray tracing and focusing in multi-layered structures	14
CT2US: Cross-modal transfer learning for kidney segmentation in ultrasound images with synthesized data	14
Remote characterization of surface slots by enhanced laser-generated ultrasonic Rayleigh waves	13
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound enhances bone marrow-derived stem cells-based periodontal regenerative therapies	13
Microstructure and mechanical properties of dissimilar NiTi and 304 stainless steel joints produced by ultrasonic welding	13
Study on multi-frequency characteristics of a longitudinal ultrasonic transducer with stepped horn	13
Eigenspace-based minimum variance beamformer combined with sign coherence factor: Application to linear-array photoacoustic imaging	13
Benchmark methodological approach for the application of artificial intelligence to lung ultrasound data from COVID-19 patients: From frame to prognostic-level	13
Effect of porosity on the statistical amplitude distribution of backscattered ultrasonic pulses in particulate reinforced metal-matrix composites	13
Tunable high acoustic impedance alumina epoxy composite matching for high frequency ultrasound transducer	13
100 MHz bandwidth planar laser-generated ultrasound source for hydrophone calibration	13
On the threshold of 1/2 order subharmonic emissions in the oscillations of ultrasonically excited bubbles	13
Superposition model of mode shapes composed of travelling torsional guided waves excited by multiple circular transducer arrays in pipes	13
Cavitation effect in two-dimensional ultrasonic rolling process	13
Contact modeling and performance evaluation of ring type traveling wave ultrasonic motors considering stator teeth	13

New modification of the acoustic Lamb waves and its application for liquid and ice sensing	12
Joint segmentation and classification of breast masses based on ultrasound radio-frequency data and convolutional neural networks	12
Acoustic-resolution photoacoustic microscope based on compact and low-cost delta configuration actuator	12
Temporal and spectral characteristics of the impulsive waves produced by a clinical ballistic shock wave therapy device	12
Generating ultrasonic images indistinguishable from real images using Generative Adversarial Networks	12
Can ultrasound attenuation measurement be used to characterise grain statistics in castings?	12
Smart responsive-calcium carbonate nanoparticles for dual-model cancer imaging and treatment	12
Theoretical and experimental evaluation of the health status of a 1018 steel I-beam using nonlinear Rayleigh waves: Application to evaluating localized plastic damage due to impact loading	12
Ultrasonic frequency mixing via local defect resonance for defect imaging in composites	12
Speed of sound ultrasound transmission tomography image reconstruction based on Bézier curves	12
Adaptive signal decomposition and dispersion removal based on the matching pursuit algorithm using dispersion-based dictionary for enhancing damage imaging	12
MAEF-Net: Multi-attention efficient feature fusion network for left ventricular segmentation and quantitative analysis in two-dimensional echocardiography	12
The influence of osmotic treatment assisted by ultrasound on the physico-chemical characteristics of blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus L.)	12
Ultrasonic focusing with mesoscale polymer cuboid	12
Interference-based amplification for CW laser-induced photoacoustic signals	12
Ultrasonic autofocus imaging of internal voids in multilayer polymer composite structures	12
Continuous ultrasonic flow measurement for aerospace small pipelines	12
A technique based on nonlinear Hanning-windowed chirplet model and genetic algorithm for parameter estimation of Lamb wave signals	12
Optimizing the placement of piezoelectric wafers on closed sections using a genetic algorithm – Towards application in structural health monitoring	12
Precise experimental determination of electrical equivalent circuit parameters for ultrasonic piezoelectric ceramic transducers from their measured characteristics	11
Two-dimensional scattering features of the mixed second harmonic A0 mode Lamb waves for incipient damage localization	11
Development of a noninvasive HIFU treatment for breast adenocarcinomas using a toroidal transducer based on preliminary attenuation measurements	11
Generation of a mode in phononic crystal based on 1D/2D structures	11
Improved ultrasound image quality with pixel-based beamforming using a Wiener-filter and a SNR-dependent coherence factor	11
Theoretical and experimental investigation of circumferential guided waves in orthotropic annuli	11
Cubic nonlinearity parameter measurement and material degradation detection using nonlinear ultrasonic three-wave mixing	11
Thin film Gallium nitride (GaN) based acoustofluidic Tweezer: Modelling and microparticle manipulation	11
Ultrasonic wireless power links for battery-free condition monitoring in metallic enclosures	11
Biometric recognition through 3D ultrasound hand geometry	11
Ultrasound classification of breast masses using a comprehensive Nakagami imaging and machine learning framework	11
Experimental and numerical determination of the wave dispersion characteristics of complex 3D woven composites	11
A fast full-wave solver for calculating ultrasound propagation in the body	11
A unified deep network for beamforming and speckle reduction in plane wave imaging: A simulation study	11
Characteristics of high-temperature equipment monitoring using dry-coupled ultrasonic waveguide transducers	11
Inversion methodology for ultrasonic characterization of polycrystals with clusters of preferentially oriented grains	11
Effects of translational motion on the Bjerknes forces of bubbles activated by strong acoustic waves	11
Evaluation of stiffness loss of reinforced concrete beams using the diffuse ultrasound method	11
Laser ultrasonic imaging of complex defects with full-matrix capture and deep-learning extraction	11
Numerical and analytical study for ultrasonic testing of internal delamination defects considering surface roughness	11
Electro-mechanical coupling band gaps of a piezoelectric phononic crystal Timoshenko nanobeam with surface effects	11
Using ultrasound to characterize the tongue-food interface: An in vitro study examining the impact of surface roughness and lubrication	11
3D printed calibration micro-phantoms for super-resolution ultrasound imaging validation	11
Development of high frequency piezocomposite with hexagonal pillars via cold ablation process	11
Experimental observation of static component generation by Lamb wave propagation in an elastic plate	11
A novelly universal theory: Toward accurately evaluating radial vibration characteristics for radially sandwiched spherical piezoelectric transducer	10
Effects of knurl tooth angle on mechanical and thermal behaviors of aluminum ultrasonic welding	10
High-intensity ultrasound irradiation promotes the release of extracellular vesicles from C2C12 myotubes	10
Integrated performance improvement for a bimodal linear ultrasonic motor using a dual-frequency asymmetric excitation method	10
Floquet wave theory-based time-corrected ultrasonic total focusing method for fiber-reinforced composite laminate	10
Gas-Coupled Laser Acoustic Detection technique for NDT of mechanical components	10
A novel method for Estimating Time of Flight of ultrasonic echoes through short-time Fourier transforms	10
Unsupervised learning framework for temperature compensated damage identification and localization in ultrasonic guided wave SHM with transfer learning	10
Elastic parameters characterization of multilayered structures by air-coupled ultrasonic transmission and genetic algorithm	10
Transfer learning for process monitoring using reflection-mode ultrasonic sensing	10
Freehand and video-rate all-optical ultrasound imaging	10
Design and analysis of an ultrasonic tactile sensor using electro-mechanical analogy	10
Axial super-resolution in ultrasound imaging with application to non-destructive evaluation	10
Real-time 3D imaging with Fourier-domain algorithms and matrix arrays applied to non-destructive testing	10
Automated seeding for ultrasound skin lesion segmentation	10
An in vitro study on the antitumor effect of sonodynamic therapy using sinoporphyrin sodium on human glioblastoma cells	10
Heavy metals biosensor based on defective one-dimensional phononic crystals	10
Efficient synthetic transmit aperture ultrasound based on tensor completion	10
Noninvasive calibrated tissue temperature estimation using backscattered energy of acoustic harmonics	10
Characterization of bonding quality of a cold-sprayed deposit by laser resonant ultrasound spectroscopy	10
One-dimension frequency–wavenumber-domain based model for ultrasonic waves generated by dual-array transducers	10
Broadband torsional guided wave magnetostrictive patch transducer with circumferential alternating permanent magnet array for structural health monitoring	10
An improved ultrasonic coda wave method for concrete behavior monitoring under various loading conditions	10
Ultrasonic fatigue testing of concrete	9
United Wiener postfilter for plane wave compounding ultrasound imaging	9
Ca2+ signaling–mediated low-intensity pulsed ultrasound–induced proliferation and activation of motor neuron cells	9
Observation on the behavior of ultrasonic micro-hammer and its effects on the deep drawing process: Numerical simulation and experimental study	9
Beamforming for large-area scan and improved SNR in array-based photoacoustic microscopy	9
A novel linear-correction localization method of acoustic emission source for velocity-free system	9
Air-coupled ultrasonic diffuse-wave techniques to evaluate distributed cracking damage in concrete	9
Fitting analysis and research of measured data of SAW yarn tension sensor based on PSO–SVR model	9
A modified sideband peak count based nonlinear ultrasonic technique for material characterization	9
Autoencoder-based detection of near-surface defects in ultrasonic testing	9
Graphene acoustic transducers based on electromagnetic interactions	9
Classification of red blood cell aggregation using empirical wavelet transform analysis of ultrasonic radiofrequency echo signals	9
An improved analytical model of the magnetostriction-based EMAT of SH0 mode guided wave in a ferromagnetic plate	9
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound promotes angiogenesis via the AKT pathway and DNA methylation in human umbilical vein endothelial cells	9
Fast linear least-squares method for ultrasound attenuation and backscatter estimation	9
Microbial acoustic sensor test-system based on a piezoelectric resonator with a lateral electric field for kanamycin detection in liquid	9
Synergistic effects of ultrasonic irradiation and α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles on the viscosity and thermal properties of an asphaltenic crude oil and their application to in-situ combustion EOR	9
Machine learning for ultrasonic nondestructive examination of welding defects: A systematic review	9
Performance evaluation of compressive sensing based lost data recovery using OMP for damage index estimation in ultrasonic SHM	9
DPAI: A Data-driven simulation-assisted-Physics learned AI model for transient ultrasonic wave propagation	9
Analysis of throwing power for megasonic assisted electrodeposition of copper inside THVs	9
Acoustic trapping of particles using a Chinese taiji lens	9
Ultrasonic signal enhancement for coarse grain materials by machine learning analysis	9
Plane wave ultrasound imaging using compressive sensing and minimum variance beamforming	9
Design of a defined grain distribution brazed diamond grinding wheel for ultrasonic assisted grinding and experimental verification	9
An economic photoacoustic imaging platform using automatic laser synchronization and inverse beamforming	8
Error analysis and correction of multi-sensor cluster methods for acoustic emission source localization	8
Ultrasonic guided wave measurement in a wooden rod using shear transducer arrays	8