UFFC March Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

March 2007

VOLUME 54

NUMBER 3

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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128 KB	Information For Contributors. . .459

248 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .464 Multimedia-zipped

23 KB	Call For Papers: Special Issue on Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .465

23 KB	A Call For Papers: Special Issue on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound in Bone . . .466



LETTERS

58 KB	Acoustic Properties of Alumina Colloidal/Polymer Nano-Composite Film on Silicon R. Zhang, W. Cao, Q. Zhou, J. H. Cha, K. K. Shung, and Y. Huang. . . 467


PAPERS

	*Medical Ultrasound*

545 KB	Aberration in Nonlinear Acoustic Wave Propagation T. Varslot, S.-E. Måsøy, T. F. Johansen, and B. Angelsen. . . 470

3.1 MB	Stable and Transient Subharmonic Emissions from Isolated Contrast Agent Microbubbles E. Biagi, L. Breschi, E. Vannacci, and L. Masotti. . . 480

1.1 MB	Estimation of Polyvinyl Alcohol Cryogel Mechanical Properties with Four Ultrasound Elastography Methods and Comparison with Gold Standard Testings J. Fromageau, J.-L. Gennisson, C. Schmitt, R. L. Maurice, R. Mongrain, and G. Cloutier. . . 498

1.1 MB	Attenuation Estimation using Spectral Cross-Correlation H. Kim and T. Varghese. . . 510

1.1 MB	Contrast Imaging with Chirped Excitation Y. Sun, D. E. Kruse, and K. W. Ferrara. . . 520

1.1 MB	Ultrasound Speckle Reduction Using Modified Gabor Filters R. G. Dantas and E. T. Costa. . . 530

1.1 MB	Optimal Velocity Estimation in Ultrasound Color Flow Imaging in Presence of Clutter L. Løvstakken, S. Bjærum, and H. Torp. . . 539

1.1 MB	Wavelet Restoration of Medical Pulse-Echo Ultrasound Images in an EM Framework J. Ng, R. Prager, N. Kingsbury, G. Treece, and A. Gee. . . 550

1.1 MB	A Real-Time Measure of Cavitation Induced Tissue Disruption by Ultrasound Imaging Backscatter Reduction T. L. Hall, J. B. Fowlkes, and C. A. Cain. . . 569

1.1 MB	Spatial Variability in Acoustic Backscatter as an Indicator of Tissue Homogenate Production in Pulsed Cavitational Ultrasound Therapy J. E. Parsons, C. A. Cain, and J. B. Fowlkes. . . 576

	*Physical Acoustics*

2.7 MB	Lord Rayleigh: John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh P. N. T. Wells. . . 591

2.7 MB	An Ultrasonically Levitated Noncontact Stage Using Traveling Vibrations on Precision Ceramic Guide Rails D. Koyama, T. Ide, J. R. Friend, K. Nakamura, and S. Ueha. . . 597

2.7 MB	The Peculiarities of Energy Characteristics of Acoustic Waves in Piezoelectric Materials and Structures B. D. Zaitsev, A. A. Teplykh, and I. E. Kuznetsova. . . 605

2.7 MB	Acoustic Waves in the Vicinity of the Normal to the Surface of Piezoelectric Crystals A. N. Darinskii, E. Le Clezio, and G. Feuillard. . . 612

2.7 MB	Theoretical Modeling of a Thickness-Shear Mode Circular Cylinder Piezoelectric Transformer J. Yang, Z. Chen, and Y. Hu. . . 621

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

1.5 MB	Enhancing Ultrasonic Imaging with Low Transient Pulse Shaping B. Cheng and T. Chang. . . 627

1.5 MB	A Coupled Finite-Element, Boundary-Integral Method for Simulating Ultrasonic Flowmeters M. Bezdek, H. Landes, A. Rieder, and R. Lerch. . . 636

1.5 MB	Measurement of the Properties of Fluids Inside Pipes Using Guided Longitudinal Waves J. Ma, M. J. S. Lowe, and F. Simonetti. . . 647

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

1.3 MB	Double-Resonance SAW Filters J. Meltaus, S. S. Hong, O. Holmgren, K. Kokkonen, and V. P. Plessky. . . 659

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

12 MB	PMN-PT Single Crystal, High-Frequency Ultrasonic Needle Transducers for Pulsed-Wave Doppler Application Q. F. Zhou, X. Xu, E. J. Gottlieb, L. Sun, J. M. Cannata, H. Ameri, M. S. Humayun, P. D. Han, and K. K. Shung. . . 668


CORRESPONDENCE

379 KB	Theoretical Investigation of Surface Acoustic Wave in the New, Three-Layered Structure: ZnO/AlN/Diamond M. El Hakiki, O. Elmazria, and P. Alnot. . . 676

379 KB	Improvements in Optical Generation of High-Frequency Ultrasound Y. Hou, S. Ashkenazi, S.-W. Huang, and M. O’Donnell. . . 682

379 KB	Energy Trapping of Thickness-Shear Vibration Modes of Elastic Plates With Functionally Graded Materials J. Wang, J. Yang, and J. Li. . . 687