Acoustic and sound engineering

Just a very few years after Edler and Hertz had described the clinical use of M-mode echocardiographyl Satomura reported the application of Dop- 2 pler ultrasound to the study of cardiac function.

The book explains sound insulation in buildings at a level suitable for both graduate students and expert consultants.

Ultrasound (US) plays an extremely important role in diagnostic imaging of neonates, infants, and children.

Presents Evidence-Based Guidance on Noise Abatement MethodsSolutions for reducing the noise impact of road and rail traffic can be found in the use of natural elements in combination with artificial elements in urban and rural environments.

Fully updated second edition of the premier reference book on muffler and lined duct acoustical performance Engine exhaust noise pollutes the street environment and ventilation fan noise enters dwellings along with fresh air.

This sixth edition is enriched  by over 300 figures, 150 tables and a video-companion collecting more than 100 cases also presented in the format of short movies and teaching cartoons.

This is the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Flow Induced Noise and Vibration (FLINOVIA), which was held in Penn State, USA, in April 2016.

Valve Radio and Audio Repair Handbook is not only an essential read for every professional working with antique radio and gramophone equipment, but also dealers, collectors and valve technology enthusiasts the world over.

This book describes how different diagnostic techniques may facilitate the prenatal identification of orofacial malformations.

This book is a practical guide to the performance of ultrasonography in women of reproductive age for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.

Intelligent Music Production presents the state of the art in approaches, methodologies and systems from the emerging field of automation in music mixing and mastering.

Twenty Interviews with Psychometric Society Presidents tells the stories of the people who are the driving forces of psychometric research, teaching and practice.

Do you enjoy listening to music while driving?

This proceedings book focuses on advances in theory, experiments and numerical simulations of fluid-structure-sound interactions related to turbulence, flow-induced vibration, noise and their control.

How do we understand culture and shape its future?

Electronics for Vinyl is the most comprehensive book ever produced on the electronic circuitry needed to extract the best possible signal from grooves in vinyl.

Parametric array loudspeakers (PALs) are capable of generating highly directional audio beams from nonlinear interactions of intense airborne ultrasound waves.

This textbook presents an introduction to signal processing for audio applications.

This book presents the signal processing algorithms that have been developed to process the signals acquired by a spherical microphone array.

This book addresses the prediction and control of noise and vibration in ventilation systems and their psychoacoustic effects on people.

Ultrasound and Carotid Bifurcation Atherosclerosis provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent advancements in instrumentation, imaging techniques including the use of contrast enhancement agents, plaque image analysis and its automation, elastography and plaque motion analysis; also, the use of ultrasonic and other biomarkers in the detection of the high risk cardiovascular individual.

This book presents a unified qualitative and quantitative account of the physical mechanisms and characteristics of linear interaction between audio-frequency vibrational motion in compressible fluids and structures with which they are in contact.

Political pressure has translated into legislation requiring industry to reduce waste.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

A virtual sound barrier is an active noise control system that uses arrays of loudspeakers and microphones to create a useful size of quiet zone and can be used to reduce sound propagation, radiation, or transmission from noise sources or to reduce noise level around people in a noisy environment.

Despite the many advances made in the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, the mortality rate is still about half that of the incidence rate.

Modern noise research and assessment techniques are commonly used in the workplace and our personal living environment.

Over the past two decades there have been many major new developments in the field of urban sound environment.

Sensory Evaluation of Sound provides a detailed review of the latest sensory evaluation techniques, specifically applied to the evaluation of sound and audio.

Possibly the greatest change confronting the practitioner and student of remote sensing in the period since the first edition of this text appeared in 1986 has been the enormous improvement in accessibility to image processing technology.

The work presented in this book focuses on modeling audiovisual quality as perceived by the users of IP-based solutions for video communication like videotelephony.

What is this sound?

In the last few years the use of medical imaging has increased exponentially in routine clinical practice.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the detection and processing of signals in underwater acoustics.

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range.

The automobile is one of the inventions that have made a decisive contribution to human mobility, and consequently it has become an inseparable part of modern human society.

Sonography of baby hips for the diagnosis of DDH and dysplasia has grown steadily in importance in recent years.

This book on urologic ultrasound has proven to be beneficial to urologists in training and currently in practice, and is structured by organ system for the practice of urology in the outpatient/office setting.

This document was commissioned by the Facility Guidelines Institute as the sole reference for acoustics in health care facilities.

This book highlights the theories and applications of quantum acoustical imaging which can be considered as a part of quantum technology.