Course and Resources

Lectures on Biomedical Ultrasound

These lectures were taken from the NPTEL MOOC: Biomedical Ultrasound: Fundamentals of Imaging and Micromachined Transducers taught by Karla Mercado-Shekhar, Himanshu Shekhar, and Hardik Pandya (IISc Bangalore).

The complete set of lectures, including micromachined transducers can be found here. 

Below, we have curated only the lectures on ultrasound principles from the course.

YouTube video links:

Lecture 2: Introduction to ultrasound imaging

Lecture 3: Basics of wave propagation

Lecture 4: Scattering and acoustic wave equation

Lecture 5: Intensity, Reflection, Transmission

Lecture 6: Recap of Lectures 2-5

Lecture 7: Introduction to imaging modes

Lecture 8: Imaging artifacts

Lecture 9: Ultrasound imaging systems

Lecture 10: Transducers and transducer arrays

Lecture 11: Recap of Lectures 7-10

* Lectures 12 – 30 are on micromachined transducers

Lecture 31: Introduction to Beamforming, Pt. 1

Lecture 32: Introduction to Beamforming, Pt. 2

Lecture 33: Beamforming and signal processing

Lecture 34: Introduction to Field II

Lecture 35: Recap of Lectures 31-34

Lecture 36: Image quality metrics

Lecture 37: Contrast agents

Lecture 38: Contrast-enhanced imaging

Lecture 39: Nonlinear acoustics and imaging

Lecture 40: Recap of Lectures 36-39

Lecture 41: Field II imaging simulations

Lecture 42: Doppler Ultrasound

Lecture 43: Color and Power Doppler Ultrasound

Lecture 44: Quantitative Ultrasound

Lecture 45: Recap of Lectures 42-44

Lecture 46: Ultrasound bioeffects

Lecture 47: Bioeffects and safety

Lecture 48: Ultrasound elastography

Lecture 49: Shear wave imaging

Lecture 50: Recap of Lectures 46-49

* Lectures 51 – 62 are on micromachined transducers