Intro -- Preface -- Author biographies -- Ram Mohan Vasu -- Debasish Roy -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 General introduction -- 1.2 UMOT in the context of optical contrast imaging -- 1.2.1 History of quantitative optical contrast recovery with UMOT -- 1.2.2 Overview of work on quantitative ultrasound-modulated optical tomography -- 1.3 A brief overview of the work -- References -- Chapter 2 Localized measurement of dynamics and mechanical properties -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Theory -- 2.2.1 Model describing the dynamics of the ROI -- 2.2.2 Modified generalized Langevin equation -- 2.2.3 Solution of the Langevin equation -- 2.3 Extraction of correlation decay introduced by Brownian particles in the ROI -- 2.3.1 Computing the decay in modulation on amplitude autocorrelation -- 2.3.2 Detection and estimation of liquid flow through a capillary hidden in a turbid medium -- 2.4 Experiments -- 2.4.1 Recovery of visco-elastic spectra from an inhomogeneous tissue-like object -- 2.4.2 Detection and estimation of liquid flow through capillary -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 2.5.1 DWS in an inhomogeneous object -- 2.5.2 Detection and estimation of flow in a hidden capillary -- References -- Chapter 3 Mechanical property distribution from optical measurement of resonant ultrasound spectrum -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Young's modulus recovery from measured natural frequency of vibration of ultrasound focal region -- 3.2.1 Force distribution in the focal region of the ultrasound transducer -- 3.2.2 Ultrasound-induced pressure distribution in the focal region -- 3.2.3 Experimental verification of the shape of the focal volume -- 3.2.4 Determination of the boundary of the vibrating ROI -- 3.2.5 Transport of information from the ROI using coherent light -- 3.2.6 Experiments -- 3.3 Recovery of elasticity distribution in an inhomogeneous object.

3.3.1 Theoretical formulation of the direct reconstruction problem -- 3.3.2 Momentum-balance equation -- 3.3.3 Estimation of Young's modulus distribution through minimizing the error functional -- 3.3.4 Experiments using tissue-equivalent phantoms -- 3.3.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Quantitative vibro-acoustography from measurement of modal frequencies: characterisation of isotropic and orthotropic tissue-like objects -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Quantitative vibro-acoustography and measurement of resonant modes of region of interest -- 4.2.1 Propagation equation for the vibro-acoustic wave -- 4.2.2 Computation of natural frequencies -- 4.3 Experiment to measure the natural frequencies -- 4.3.1 Experimental setup -- 4.3.2 Determination of the first natural frequency of the region-of-interest -- 4.3.3 Recovery of shear modulus from the natural frequency and discussion of results -- 4.4 Measurement of natural frequencies by ultrasound-assisted diffusing wave spectroscopy -- 4.4.1 Stochastic resonance -- 4.4.2 Array-enhanced stochastic resonance in the context of ultrasound-assisted diffusing-wave spectroscopy -- 4.4.3 Experiments -- 4.4.4 Results and discussion -- 4.5 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 5 Light diffusion from non-spherical particles: rotational diffusion micro-rheology using ultrasound-assisted diffusing-wave spectroscopy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Light scattering from an ensemble of particles with shape anisotropy -- 5.3 Numerical simulation of the particle dynamics -- 5.4 Experiments -- 5.5 Results and discussions -- 5.5.1 Recovery of shape and size parameters -- 5.5.2 Recovery of mean-squared displacement and visco-elastic spectrum -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter -- A.1 Derivation of the discrete Hamiltonian incorporating micropolar rotation.

A.2 Formulation of the new GLE -- A.3 A fluctuation-dissipation (FD) constraint -- References -- Chapter -- References.