November 2005 Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

November 2005

VOLUME 52

NUMBER 11

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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143 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1885

172 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .1890 Multimedia-zipped

172 KB	Call for Papers: 15th IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .1891

172 KB	Call for Papers: “Special Issue on Modeling, Optimization and Design of Acoustic Devices” . . .1892

172 KB	Call for Papers: “Special Issue on High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging in Industrial, Material, and Biomaterial Applications” . . .1893

LETTERS

128 KB	Stability of Thick Film Piezoresistors under Large Pressure Cycles at Elevated Temperature A. Amin. . . 1894

PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

401 KB	Analytical Modeling of the Apparent d₃₃ Piezoelectric Coefficient Determined by the Direct Quasistatic Method for Different Boundary Conditions A. Barzegar, D. Damjanovic, and N. Setter. . . 1897

	*Frequency Control*

624 KB	Absolute Calibration of a Geodetic Time Transfer System J. Plumb, K. M. Larson, J. White, and E. Powers. . . 1904

811 KB	Long-Term Comparisons Between Two-Way Satellite and Geodetic Time Transfer Systems J. F. Plumb and K. M. Larson. . . 1912

268 KB	A Novel Microcomputer Temperature-Compensating Method for an Overtone Crystal Oscillator M. Li, X. Huang, F. Tan, Y. Fan, and X. Liang. . . 1919

692 KB	Low-Noise Electronic Design for the ⁸⁷Rb Coherent Population Trapping Maser C. E. Calosso, F. Levi, E. K. Bertacco, A. Godone, and S. Micalizio. . . 1923

	*Medical Ultrasound*

2.2 MB	Propagation of Spontaneously Actuated Pulsive Vibration in Human Heart Wall and In Vivo Viscoelasticity Estimation H. Kanai. . . 1931 Multimedia-zipped

869 KB	Stress Field Forming of Sector Array Transducers for Vibro-Acoustography G. T. Silva, S. Chen, A. Frery, J. F. Greenleaf, and M. Fatemi. . . 1943

804 KB	Quantitative Real-Time Blood Flow Estimation with Intravascular Ultrasound in the Presence of In-Plane Flow F. J. de Ana and M. O’Donnell. . . 1952

349 KB	Acoustic Detection of Controlled Laser-Induced Microbubble Creation in Gelatin C. Tse, M. J. Zohdy, J. Y. Ye, T. B. Norris, L. P. Balogh, K. W. Hollman, and M. O’Donnell. . . 1962

929 KB	Aberration Correction by Nonlinear Beam Mixing: Generation of a Pseudo Point Sound Source J. Seo, J. J. Choi, J. B. Fowlkes, M. O’Donnell, and C. A. Cain. . . 1970 Multimedia-zipped

1.3 MB	High-Frequency Dynamics of Ultrasound Contrast Agents Y. Sun, D. E. Kruse, P. A. Dayton, and K. W. Ferrara. . . 1981

522 KB	Influence of Lipid Shell Physicochemical Properties on Ultrasound-Induced Microbubble Destruction M. A. Borden, D. E. Kruse, C. F. Caskey, S. Zhao, P. A. Dayton, and K. W. Ferrara. . . 1992

1 MB	Evaluation of the Spectral Fit Algorithm as Functions of Frequency Range and Δka_eff T. A. Bigelow and W. D. O’Brien, Jr.. . . 2003

1.8 MB	Ultrasonic Computed Tomography Reconstruction of the Attenuation Coefficient Using a Linear Array S.-W. Huang and P.-C. Li. . . 2011

	*Physical Acoustics*

633 KB	The Determination of the Optimal Length of Crystal Blanks in Quartz Crystal Resonators J. Wang and W. Zhao. . . 2023

313 KB	Vibrations of an Asymmetrically Electroded Piezoelectric Plate J. Yang, H. Zhou, and Z. Wang. . . 2031

893 KB	Fast Scanning Probe for Ophthalmic Echography Using an Ultrasound Motor R. Carotenuto, G. Caliano, A. Caronti, A. Savoia, and M. Pappalardo. . . 2039

1.1 MB	A Novel, Single-Mode Piezoceramic Plate Actuator for Ultrasonic Linear Motors O. Vyshnevskyy, S. Kovalev, and W. Wischnewskiy. . . 2047

921 KB	Design and Characteristic Analysis of L1B4 Ultrasonic Motor Considering Contact Mechanism J.-S. Rho, B.-J. Kim, C.-H. Lee, H.-W. Joo, and H.-K. Jung. . . 2054

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

635 KB	Tomographic Imaging of an Ultrasonic Field in a Plane by Use of a Linear Array: Theory and Experiment K. R. Waters and P. H. Johnston. . . 2065 Multimedia-zipped

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

522 KB	Investigation on SAW Properties of LGS and Optimal Cuts for High-Temperature Applications X. Ji, T. Han, W. Shi, and G. Zhang. . . 2075

1.4 MB	X-Ray Topography Analysis of Acoustic Wave Fields in the SAW-Resonator Structures D. V. Roshchupkin, H. D. Roshchupkina, and D. V. Irzhak. . . 2081

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

837 KB	Comparison and Electrical Modeling of New Polymeric Cellular Electrets G. C. Montanari, G. Mazzanti, F. Ciani, and M. Paajanen. . . 2088

679 KB	Design and Fabrication of Broadband Graded Ultrasonic Transducers with Rectangular Kerfs H. Guo, J. M. Cannata, Q. Zhou, and K. K. Shung. . . 2096

1.1 MB	Generation and Detection of Guided Waves Using PZT Wafer Transducers J. H. Nieuwenhuis, J. J. Neumann, D. W. Greve, and I. J. Oppenheim. . . 2103 Multimedia-zipped

183 KB	Variational Principles for the Equations of Porous Piezoelectric Ceramics G. Altay and M. C. Dökmeci. . . 2112

962 KB	A Method of “Weak Resonance” for Quality Factor and Coupling Coefficient Measurement in Piezoelectrics A. V. Mezheritsky. . . 2120

303 KB	Elastic, Piezoelectric, and Dielectric Characterization of Modified BiScO₃-PbTiO₃ Ceramics S. Zhang, E. F. Alberta, R. E. Eitel, C. A. Randall, and T. R. Shrout. . . 2131

679 KB	Characteristics of (1010) and (1120) Textured ZnO Piezofilms for a Shear Mode Resonator in the VHF-UHF Frequency Ranges T. Yanagitani, T. Nohara, M. Matsukawa, Y. Watanabe, and T. Otani. . . 2140


CORRESPONDENCE


1.3 MB	Vibrations of Piezoelectric/Elastic Laminated Trimorph Ring Transducer J.-F. Lin and S.-H. Chang. . . 2146