Ultrasonic related sites & links :

Safety & Bioeffects :

 ASUM / Safety (Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, Willoughby, Australia)

 BMUS (British Medical Ultrasound Society, London, England)

           ECMUS (European Committee for Medical Ultrasound, EFSUMB, England)

   

Standardization, Reglementation :

 ASA (The Acoustical Society of America)

 IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA)

 IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland)

 ISO (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva)

 ON (Österreichisches Normungsinstitut, Austria)

 ÖVE (Österreichischer Verband für Elektrotechnik, Austria)

 NPL (National Physical Laboratory, England)

Quality assurance & control :

 IBMTP / Vienna (Department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics, University of Vienna, Austria)

 TIMUG e.V. (Ultraschall- und Medizintechnik, TIMUG e.V., Germany)

 

Database :

 Ultrasound Scanner Database (gopher)

 SEA (Specialty Engineering Associates, CA, USA)

 Medison (clincal image data base)

 GE Medical Systems (clincal image data base)

 Acuson (clincal image gallery)

 Phillips (clincal image library)

Organisations :

 AAA (Austrian Acoustics Association)

 ASA (The Acoustical Society of America)

 AIU (The Australian Institute of Ultrasound)

 AIUM (The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine)

 BMUS (British Medical Ultrasound Society, London, England)

 CSBMILI (Czech Society of Biomedical Engineering)

 DEGA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik, Germany)

 DEGUM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin, Germany)

 DGBMT (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik, Germany)

 EFOMP (European Federation of Organizations in Medical Physics)

 EFSUMB (European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, England)

 FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration, USA)

 IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA)

 IOP (The Institute of Physics, England)

 ÖGMP (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik, Austria)

 ÖGUM (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin, Austria)

 PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt / Abt. 1 : Mechanik & Akustik, Germany)

 RSNA (Radiological Society of North America, Oak Brook, USA)

 TIMUG e.V. (Ultraschall- und Medizintechnik, TIMUG e.V., Germany)

Companies :

 3D EchoTech Imaging Systems (3D ultrasound equipment, Germany)

 Acuson (Acuson, USA,-> Siemens)

 Aloka (Aloka, Germany)

 American Medical Design (designs & manufactures ultrasound transducers & piezocomposites, USA)

 ATL (Advanced Technology Laboratories, Bothell, USA, -> Philips)

           Biomedicom (3D ultrasound system & software, Israel)

 B-K Medical (GmbH, Germany)

 CIRS (Computerized Imaging Reference Systems, Inc., USA)

 Cortex Technology (ultrasonic equipment for dermatology, DK)

 Danish Fantom Service (Jyllinge, Danmark)

 Dynamic Imaging (Livingston, Scotland UK)

 Eesiflo (USA) Ultrasonic Flow Measurement

 Esaote (Esaote Biomedica, Germany)

 FUKUDA DENSHI (Fukuda Denshi Co., Japan)

 GAMMEX-RMI (Gammex-RMI, USA)

 General Electric (GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, USA)

           Hitachi (Hitachi Medical Ultrasound)

 JSR Ultrasonics (JSR Ultrasonics, Pittsford, NY, USA)

 Kretztechnik Ultrasound (Kretztechnik AG, Zipf, Austria -> General Electric)

       

 LJB Development (custom designed scientific ultrasonic software, USA)

           McCue (devices for diagnosis of osteoporosis, UK)

 Medison (medical imaging equipment, Korea)

           MicroSound Corporation (intraluminar ultrasound systems, USA)

 Mindray Co, Ltd. (medical imaging equipment, Shenzhen, China)

           MySono.com (portable imaging equipment)

 Nicolet Vascular Inc. (obstetric and vascular hand-held and diagnostic ultrasound systems, USA)
 Ohmic (OHMIC Instruments Company, USA)

           Philips (Philips Medical Systems, Holland)

 Pie Medical (Pie Medical, Maatricht, The Netherlands)

           Piezo Systems Inc.(developer of piezo elements, Cambridge, USA)

 PTW (PTW Freiburg, Germany)

           Shimadzu (Shimadzu Corporation)

           SonoAce (SonoAce GmbH, Marl, Germany)

 Sonogel (Sonogel, Germany)

           Sonometrics Corporation (sonomicrometer transducers; data acquisition for medical, cardiac, and biological research)

 SonoSite (SonoSite Inc., Bothell, WA, USA, portable imaging devices -> ATL)

           Sunlight Omnisense (Ultrasound device for diagnosing Osteoporosis)

 Telemed (PC-card based ultrasound equipment, Lithuania)

           Terason (portable ultrasound PC-system, USA)

 TomTec Imaging Systems (3D/4D Ultrasound solutions, Germany)

 Ultran (Ultran Laboratories, Inc., USA)

 Ultrasound Services Inc. (portable and mobile diagnostic ultrasound testing, USA)

Publications, Journals -Online -:

 AIUM (The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, USA)

 IDEAL (Online scientific journal library /Academic Press)

 IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA)

 Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

 Journal of Digital Imaging

 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

 Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

 Lekar a Technika (Physician & Technology journal (engl. abstracts), Prague, Czech Republic)

 Medinews.com (site with various medical information)

 Online Journal of Cardiac Ultrasound

 Radiology (Radiological Society of North America, Oak Brook, USA)

 RadioGraphics (Radiological Society of North America, Oak Brook, USA)

 WHO (WHO Health & Biomedical Information, Switzerland)

Medical Imaging News Groups :

 alt.image.medical (Medical Imaging discussion group)

 sci.image.processing (Image processing discussion group)

 sci.med.physics (Medical Physics discussion group)

 comp.protocols.dicom (DICOM protocols discussion group)