Developments in Acoustics and Ultrasonics

This volume is the result of a meeting organized by the Physical Acoustics Group of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Acoustics, held at Leeds in September 1991. Developments in physical acoustics and ultrasonics are increasingly taking place outside the traditional physics and electronic engineering environment. Many disparate disciplines now employ these techniques and have developed them further. Since each discipline has developed a particular ultrasound technique as a tool, not as an end in itself, progress has often not been communicated beyond a small circle. The papers presented here provide an up-to-date survey in one volume of the progress in the past decade on the use of acoustics and ultrasonics in the physical, medical, biological, chemical, food and oceanographic sciences.