In the course of the years the volumes in the Acoustical Imaging Series have developed to become well-known and appreciated reference works. Offering both a broad perspective on the state of the art in the field as well as an in-depth look at its leading edge research, this Volume 30 in the Series contains again an excellent collection of contributions, presented in five major categories:

Preface.
Part I BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
Performance of a Method to Standardize Breast Ultrasound Interpretation Using Image Processing and Case-Based Reasoning.- High Resolution Ultrasonic Method for 3D Fingerprint Recognizable Characteristics In Biometrics Identification.- Ultrasonic Detection of Metastases in Dissected Lymph Nodes of Cancer Patients.- Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Soft Tissue with Ultrasound Vibrometry.- Vector Doppler Method Based on an Automatic Transverse Angle Tracking Procedure.- Proposal for Blood-Flow Imaging by Contrast Echo Using Counter-Crossed Beams.- Inverse Scattering Theory.- Inverse Scattering Results.- Multiple Scattering Contribution to Trabecular Bone Backscatter.- ULA-OP:  A Fully Open Ultrasound Imaging/Doppler System .- The Use of Quality Metrics in Ultrasonic Strain Imaging.- Applying Echoes Mean Frequency Shift for Attenuation Imaging in Tissue.
Part II ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY
Visualization of Microvessels in Skin by Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Microscope      .- Technique for Visualization of Anisotropy of Biomedical Tissue by Shear Wave Acoustic Microscopy.- High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging of Cartilage-Bone Complex.- Ultra-High Resolution Thin Film Thickness Delineation Using Reflection Phase-Sensitive Acoustic Microscopy.- Signal Processing for Time-Lapse Cell Imaging with Vector-Colntrast Scanning Acoustic Microscopy.- Acoustic Microscopy Study of Properties and Microstructure of Synthetic and Natural Fiber Composite Materials.
Part III non-destructive evaluation
A  Defect Localization Procedure Based on Warped Lamb Waves.- Second Harmonic Detection Generated from Fastened Bolt.-  In-line Ultrasonic Array System for Monitoring Dynamic of  Coating Forming by Cold Spray Process.- An Experimental Comparison of Thermographic and Acoustical Methods for Evaluation of Layered Structures.- Acoustic Microscope Inspection ofCylindrical Butt Laser Welds.
Part IV systems analysis
Intracardiac Forward-Looking Ultrasound Imaging Catheters Using Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers.- Conformal Ultrasound Imaging System.- Air-Coupled Vibrometry.- A Hybrid Kirchoff Migration Direction-of-Arrival Method for Underwater Imaging of Complex Objects Using Sparse Sensor Arrays.- Multi-View Acoustic Sizing and Classification of Individual Fish.- Acoustic Image Models for Obstacle Avoidance with Forward-Looking Sonar.- Underwater Acoustical Imaging and Sensing Systems for Homing, Docking, Navigation and Collision Avoidance.
Part V signal analysis and image processing
Resolving the Location of Acoustic Point Sources Scattered Due to the Presence of a Skull Phantom.- Reflection and Scattering of Acoustical Waves from a Discontinuity in Absorption.- Automatic Regions of Interest Segmentation for Computer Aided Classification of Prostate TRUS Images.- Determination of B/A of Biological Media by Measuring and Modeling Nonlinear Distortion of Pulsed Acoustic Wave in  Two-Layer System of Media.- A Consideration of Multi-Dimensional Simulation of Nonlinear Acoustic Wave Propagation Using the CIP Method.- A Study of Similarity Measures for In Vivo 3D Ultrasound Volume Registration.- Image Quality Improvement Performance Using the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique Data.- Expectation Maximization for Joint Deconvolution and Statistics Estimation.- Particle Swarm Optimization for In Vivo 3D Ultrasound Volume Registration.- Gauge Theory Formulation of Acoustical Imaging.- High Resolution Pulse Compression Imaging Using Super Resolution FM-Chirp Correlation Method (SCM) .- Medical Ultrasound Image Deconvolution.- Numerical and Physical Modeling of Tomography Process  Based on Third-Order Nonlinear Acoustical Effects. 
EPILOGUE
Subject Index
Author Index