Preface -- Part I: Backscatter Coefficient methods -- Chapter 1. Quantitative Ultrasound: an Emerging Technology for Detecting, Diagnosing, Imaging, Evaluating, and Monitoring Disease (Ernie Feleppa) -- Chapter 2. Quantitative Ultrasound: Scattering theory (Michael Oelze) -- Chapter 3. Quantitative Ultrasound: Experimental implementation (Michael Oelze) -- Chapter 4. Extracting Quantitative Ultrasonic Parameters from the Backscatter Coefficient (Aiguo Han) -- Part II: Attenuation Estimation Methods -- Chapter 5. Attenuation Compensation and Estimation (Timothy Bigelow and Yassin Labyed) -- Chapter 6. Recent advances in attenuation estimation (Ivan Rosado Mendez) -- Part III: Envelope Statistics Methods -- Chapter 7. Review of envelope statistics models for quantitative ultrasound imaging and tissue characterization (Francois Destrempes and Guy Cloutier) -- Chapter 8. Information entropy and its applications (Po-Hsaing Tsui) -- Part IV: Ultrasound Computed Tomography -- Chapter 9. Ultrasound Tomography (Nicole Ruiter, Torsten Hopp, Michael Zapf and Hartmut Gemmek) -- Chapter 10. Full Wave Inversion and Inverse Scattering in Ultrasound Tomography/Volography (James Wiskin) -- Chapter 11. Clinical Importance of 3D Volography in Breast Imaging (John Klock) -- Part V: Acoustic microcopy -- Chapter 12. Acoustic Microscopy (Yoshifumi Saijo) -- Chapter 13. Advanced Topics in Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy (Cameron Hoerig and Jonathan Mamou) -- Part VI: Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound -- Chapter 14. Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound (Tim Stiles) -- Index.