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The final lecture this semester will be on 23 November. It will be a free-form summary of the course, with several lecturers present. If you have questions about the syllabus, textbook, assignments or exam etc., or suggestions for improving the course, we will be happy to hear them. 

The second and last mandatory assignment is available. Data for Exercise 2 can be downloaded here. A report should be submitted by 19 November. The assignment will be reviewed in the lecture on 21 November. Good luck!

There will be an oral exam at Ifi on Tuesday 12 December, starting from 10 am.

You will receive a notice about where and when exactly.

Good luck!

Regrettably, the lecture scheduled for Tuesday 17 October must be canceled. Instead, we will try to arrange a seminar on topics of choice later (if convenient for the students).

The first mandatory assignment is available. In this folder you may find code and data required for Exercise 3. The report should be submitted by 10 October (one day later than originally announced). Next week (week 40) is designated for work on the assignment, and there will be no regular classes.

In the notes for Lecture 4, a slide about the transmission coefficient has been added, and the slide about the reflection coefficient has been corrected. In the Matlab example on computing the MTF in Lecture 5, a missing period (.) has been added.

Apparently exam registration via Studentweb has not been possible; this technical issue should be fixed now, but please notify us if you still experience problems. The exam date has not yet been set.

The lecture on Thursday 7 Sep. will be in Seminarrom C, as our regular meeting place (Perl) has been booked by someone else on this day.

We recommend this excerpt from Sverre Holm's book "Waves in Attenuating Media with Power Law Characteristics", in particular Ch. 1 and Ch. 2.1-2.6, as an introduction to wave equations for tissues (cf. Szabo Ch. 4.5-4.6). Note that this is a manuscript entering the publication process, so please don't distribute the pdf-file without the author's consent.  

You may find links to lecture slides, problems sets, code examples, and other resources in the rightmost column on the syllabus page, or directly in the folder undervisningsmateriale. Here is the Matlab script for exercise 5 in Szabo's problem set.

Note that the presentation slides for Lecture 2-3 have been slightly expanded (updated versions will be posted whenever corrections are made). The Hilbert transform will be covered in Lecture 6 (on 7 Sep.), which is also an opportunity to review some key results from the first lectures.

Students in the following master's programmes may now register for the course in UiO Studentweb: 

1. Applied mathematics and mechanics
2. Physics
3. Electrical engineering (eldat)
4. Informatics.

If you would like to take the course but are unable to register, please notify us. You may also contact the Student Administration at Ifi directly.

A tentative syllabus has now been announced.

The first lecture is scheduled for 22 August and will be an introduction to the course and the field of acoustic imaging.

The main text for the course is

Thomas L. Szabo, Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out, Second edition, Elsevier (2014).

The book should soon be available in the Akademika bookstore. On the publisher's website you may find supporting materials including color figures.