PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess vascular changes and blood flow abnormalities in the common carotid arteries of patients with head and neck cancers after external radiotherapy, using color Doppler ultrasonography. METHODS We studied 24 patients treated with external radiotherapy for various head and neck cancers. In order to study the acute effects of irradiation on common carotid...

In many industrial applications through transmission ultrasonic measurements are widely used because they enable to perform characterization and long term monitoring of material properties. The waveform of the signal transmitted through the plastic object usually is distorted due to different factors, such as frequency dependent attenuation, phase velocity dispersion, diffraction, geometry of b...

A new technique for sensing turbulence in single-phase fluid flow by pulsed ultrasound is developed. The velocity component of turbulence perpendicular to the flow axis is sensed by two ultrasonic transducers mounted diametrically opposite on the pipe. The technique facilitates detecting variations in time of flight of two ultrasonic pulses transmitted simultaneously in the opposite directions ...

With the growth of genetic engineering, mice have become increasingly common as models of human diseases, and this has stimulated the development of techniques to assess the murine cardiovascular system. Our group has developed nonimaging and dedicated Doppler techniques for measuring blood velocity in the large and small peripheral arteries of anesthetized mice. We translated technology origin...

This study proposes an instantaneous damage localization technique for composite structures using noncontact laser ultrasonics. First, a velocity profile of the target composite structure is obtained by measuring wave velocities on paths with various directions. Second, laser ultrasonic responses from two excitation-sensing pairs, called inspection pairs, are obtained. Then possible damage loca...