VU Ultrasound in Nature, Engineering and Medicine

Short accompanying oral examinations. Written (multiple choice) test at the end.

The students will become familiar with the fundamentals and with all important applications of ultrasound.

SONAR orientation sense of bat and dolphin; importance of SONAR for the U-Boot localisation in world war II; Ultrasound non-destructive material testing; Sono-luminiscence; Ultrasonic separation of suspended particles: Highlights of the European Training and Mobility Network UltraSonoSep: Acoustic bio-cell filters; Ultrasonic emulsion splitting (http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/www/euss); Therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound; Sonothrombolysis; Sonoporation.