The students will become familiar with the fundamentals and with 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.

Short accompanying oral examinations (repetitions by students). Written examination at the end, optional (global) oral examination

Please use TISS https://TISS.tuwien.ac.at/ to apply for final exam (=course registration)

Lecture slides and supporting material are provided electronically.

Bachelor or equivalent preeducation required. A personal laptop is strongly recommended, because it allows the use of electronic document copies of the provided lecture material.