T-UFFC July Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL SOCIETY

July 2007

VOLUME 54

NUMBER 7

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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128 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1281

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LETTERS

116 KB	A Shear Horizontal Surface Wave in Magnetoelectric Materials J. Liu, D. Fang, and X. Liu. . . 1287

143 KB	Frequency Shift of Thickness-Shear Vibrations of AT-Cut Quartz Resonators Due to a Liquid Layer with the Electrode Stiffness Considered Y. Jing, J. Chen, X. Chen, and X. Gong. . . 1290


PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

818 KB	Optimal Design of Piezoelectric Transformers: A Rational Approach Based on an Analytical Model and a Deterministic Global Optimization F. Pigache, F. Messine, and B. Nogarede. . . 1293

	*Medical Ultrasound*

4.2 MB	Motion Artifacts of Extended High Frame Rate Imaging J. Wang and J.-y. Lu . . . 1303 Multimedia-zipped

4.5 MB	An Eigenfunction Method for Reconstruction of Large-Scale and High-Contrast Objects R. C. Waag, F. Lin, T. K. Varslot, and J. P. Astheimer . . . 1316 Multimedia-zipped

2 MB	Method for Microbubble Characterization Using Primary Radiation Force H. J. Vos, F. Guidi, E. Boni, and P. Tortoli . . . 1333 Multimedia-zipped

276 KB	Harmonic Vibro-Acoustography S. Chen, R. R. Kinnick, J. F. Greenleaf, and M. Fatemi . . . 1346

389 KB	The Effect of Phase Cancellation on Estimates of Calcaneal Broadband Ultrasound Attenuation in Vivo K. A. Wear . . . 1352

1 MB	Ultrasonic Detection of the Anisotropy of Protein Cross Linking in Myocardium at Diagnostic Frequencies S. L. Baldwin, M. Yang, K. R. Marutyan, K. D. Wallace, M. R. Holland, and J. G. Miller . . . 1360

1 MB	Third Harmonic Transmit Phasing for Tissue Harmonic Generation C.-C. Shen, Y.-C. Wang, and Y.-C. Hsieh . . . 1370

	*Physical Acoustics*

619 KB	Properties of the Anisimkin Jr.’ Modes in Quartz Plates Y. V. Gulyaev. . . 1382

3.5 MB	Estimation of Quartz Resonator Q and other Figures of Merit by an Energy Sink Method Y.-K. Yong, M. S. Patel, and M. Tanaka. . . 1386

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

433 KB	An Implementation of Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique in Frequency Domain T. Stepinski. . . 1399

1.4 MB	Increased Efficiency of Surface Wave Stimulation on the Inaccessible Side of a Thick Isotropic Plate with Superimposed Periodicity N. F. Declercq and B. Sarens. . . 1409

857 KB	Elastic Guided Wave Propagation in Electrical Cables C. Mateo, J. A. Talavera, and A. Muñoz. . . 1423

748 KB	The Band Gaps of Plate-Mode Waves in One-Dimensional Piezoelectric Composite Plates: Polarizations and Boundary Conditions X.-Y. Zou, Q. Chen, and J.-C. Cheng. . . 1430

505 KB	Air-Coupled Ultrasound: A Novel Technique for Monitoring the Curing of Thermosetting Matrices F. Lionetto, A. Tarzia, and A. Maffezzoli. . . 1437

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

785 KB	Rayleigh Wave Reflection and Scattering Calculation by Source Regeneration Method W. Wang, T. Han, X. Zhang, H. Wu, and Y. Shui. . . 1445

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

803 KB	Polishing of Quartz by Rapid Etching in Ammonium Bifluoride Ö.Vallin, R. Danielsson, U. Lindberg, and G. Thornell. . . 1454

418 KB	Analysis of a Piezoelectric Bimorph Plate with a Central-Attached Mass as an Energy Harvester S. Jiang and Y. Hu. . . 1463

CORRESPONDENCE

373 KB	Identifying the Signal of Interest for Partially Overlapping Ultrasonic Echoes R. Cepel and S. P. Neal. . . 1470

574 KB	Obtaining Quartz Crystal Frequencies from Deterministic Temperatures and Random Angle Variations D. Chandler, J. Garstecki, and A. Morales. . . 1475


142 KB	Nonlinear Torsional Vibration of a Circular Cylindrical Piezoelectric Rod with Relatively Large Shear Deformation J. Yang. . . 1482


377 KB	Combination of e-Beam Lithography and of High Velocity AlN/Diamond-Layered Structure for SAW Filters in X Band P. Kirsch, M. B. Assouar, O. Elmazria, M. El Hakiki, V. Mortet, and P. Alnot. . . 1486