IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL
A   PUBLICATION  OF  THE  IEEE  ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS  AND  FREQUENCY  CONTROL  SOCIETY
August 2006 VOLUME 53 NUMBER 8 ITUCER (ISSN 0885-3010)
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Table of Contents

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Information For Contributors. . .1393
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In Memoriam: Harry F. Tiersten . . .1399

LETTERS

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Characterization of Superhydrophobic Materials Using Multiresonance Acoustic Shear Wave Sensors
S. J. Kwoun, R. M. Lec, R. A. Cairncross, P. Shah, and C. J. Brinker. . . 1400

PAPERS

  Medical Ultrasound
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A Simple Viscoelastic Model for Soft Tissues in the Frequency Range 6–20 MHz
X. Yang and C. C. Church. . . 1404
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A New Strategy to Enhance Cavitational Tissue Erosion Using a High-Intensity, Initiating Sequence
Z. Xu, J. B. Fowlkes, and C. A. Cain. . . 1412
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Accurate Doppler Angle Estimation for Vector Flow Measurements
P. Tortoli, G. Bambi, and S. Ricci. . . 1425
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Phase-Aberration Correction with a 3-D Ultrasound Scanner: Feasibility Study
N. M. Ivancevich, J. J. Dahl, G. E. Trahey, and S. W. Smith. . . 1432
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High-Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging Using Fast Two-Dimensional Homomorphic Filtering
R. Jirík and T. Taxt. . . 1440
  Physical Acoustics
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Analysis of Temperature Rise for Piezoelectric Transformer Using Finite-Element Method
H.-W. Joo, C.-H. Lee, J.-S. Rho, and H.-K. Jung. . . 1449
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Position and Time-Delay Calibration of Transducer Elements in a Sparse Array for Underwater Ultrasound Imaging
Y. Li. . . 1458
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A Torque Estimator for a Traveling Wave Ultrasonic Motor—Application to an Active Claw
F. Giraud and B. Semail. . . 1468
  Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications
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Flexible Ultrasonic Transducers
M. Kobayashi, C.-K. Jen, and D. Lévesque. . . 1478
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Attenuation of Acoustic Normal Modes in Piezoelectric Plates Loaded by Viscous Liquids
I. V. Anisimkin and V. I. Anisimkin. . . 1487
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Recognition of Organic Solvents Molecules by Simultaneous Detection Using SAW Oscillator Sensors and Optical Fiber Devices Coated by Langmuir-Blodgett Cadmium Arachidate Films
M. Penza, G. Cassano, P. Aversa, F. Antolini, A. Cusano, A. Cutolo, M. Giordano, and L. Nicolais. . . 1493
  Transducers and Transducers Materials
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Comparison of the Frequency and Physical Nature of the Lowest Order Parasitic Mode in Single Crystal and Ceramic 2-2 and 1-3 Piezoelectric Composite Transducers
D. Robertson, G. Hayward, A. Gachagan, and V. Murray. . . 1503
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Experimental Characterization of Collapse-Mode CMUT Operation
Ö. Oralkan, B. Bayram, G. G. Yaralioglu, A. S. Ergun, M. Kupnik, D. T. Yeh, I. O. Wygant, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 1513
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High-Frequency Transducers Based on Integrated Piezoelectric Thick Films for Medical Imaging
P. Maréchal, F. Levassort, J. Holc, L.-P. Tran-Huu-Hue, M. Kosec, M. Lethiecq. . . 1524

CORRESPONDENCE

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The Stiffening of Arteries by the Tissue-Mimicking Gelatin
X. Zhang and J. F. Greenleaf. . . 1534
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Complex Notation for the Dielectric Response of Ferroelectric Materials Beyond the Small Sinusoidal Fields
X. Zhou, B. Chu, and Q. M. Zhang. . . 1540