IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL
A   PUBLICATION  OF  THE  IEEE  ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS  AND  FREQUENCY  CONTROL  SOCIETY
February 2006 VOLUME 53 NUMBER 2 ITUCER (ISSN 0885-3010)
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Table of Contents

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Information For Contributors. . .255
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A Multimedia Example . . .260
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging in Industrial, Material, and Biomaterial Applications . . .261
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Call for Papers: 15th IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .262
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Call for Papers: 2006 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium . . .263

LETTERS

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Poisson’s Ratio for Polycrystalline Silicon Used in Disk-Shaped Microresonators
A. H. Meitzler. . . 264

PAPERS

  Ferroelectrics
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Transverse Vibration Analysis for Piezoceramic Rectangular Plates Using Ritz’s Method with Equivalent Constants
C.-H. Huang and Y.-Y. Chen. . . 265
  Frequency Control
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A Novel DDS Using Nonlinear ROM Addressing With Improved Compression Ratio and Quantization Noise
L. S. J. Chimakurthy, M. Ghosh, F. F. Dai, and R. C. Jaeger. . . 274
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Second Generation 50-K Dual-Mode Sapphire Oscillator
J. D. Anstie, J. G. Hartnett, M. E. Tobar, E. N. Ivanov, and P. L. Stanwix. . . 284
  Medical Ultrasound
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Blood Flow Imaging-A New Real-Time, 2-D Flow Imaging Technique
L. Løvstakken, S. Bjærum, D. Martens, and H. G. Torp. . . 289
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High-Frequency Ultrasound Annular-Array Imaging. Part I: Array Design and Fabrication
K. A. Snook, C.-H. Hu, T. R. Shrout, and K. K. Shung. . . 300
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High-Frequency Ultrasound Annular Array Imaging. Part II: Digital Beamformer Design and Imaging
C.-H. Hu, K. A. Snook, P.-J. Cao, and K. K. Shung. . . 309
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Development of a Real-Time, High-Frequency Ultrasound Digital Beamformer for High-Frequency Linear Array Transducers
C.-H. Hu, X.-C. Xu, J. M. Cannata, J. T. Yen, and K. K. Shung. . . 317
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Evaluation of an Algorithm for Semiautomated Segmentation of Thin Tissue Layers in High-Frequency Ultrasound Images
Q. Qiu, J. Dunmore-Buyze, D. R. Boughner, and J. C. Lacefield. . . 324
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Annular Phased-Array High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Device for Image-Guided Therapy of Uterine Fibroids
R. T. Held, V. Zderic, T. N. Nguyen, and S. Vaezy. . . 335
  Physical Acoustics
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Torsional Vibrations of Circular Elastic Plates with Thickness Steps
M. K. Kang, R. Huang, and T. Knowles. . . 349
  Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications
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Determination of Density Distribution in Ferrous Powder Compacts Using Ultrasonic Tomography
X. Zhao, J. L. Rose, and H. Gao. . . 360
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Automatic Determination of Acoustic Plate Source-Detector Separation from One Waveform
S. D. Holland and W. Sachse. . . 370
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Orthogonal Frequency Coding for SAW Tagging and Sensors
D. Puccio, D. C. Malocha, N. Saldanha, D. R. Gallagher, and J. H. Hines. . . 377
  Surface Acoustic Waves
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Determination of the True Congruent Composition for LiTaO3 Single Crystals Using the LFB Ultrasonic Material Characterization System
J.-I. Kushibiki and Y. Ohashi. . . 385
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Longitudinal Leaky SAW Resonators and Filters on YZ-LiNbO3
T. Makkonen, V. P. Plessky, W. Steichen, V. I. Grigorievski, M. Solal, and M. M. Salomaa. . . 393
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FEM/BEM Impedance and Power Analysis for Measured LGS SH-SAW Devices
T. D. Kenny, T. B. Pollard, E. Berkenpas, and M. Pereira da Cunha. . . 402
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Gap Acousto-Electric Waves in Structures of Arbitrary Anisotropy
A. N. Darinskii and M. Weihnacht. . . 412
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Surface Green’s Function of a Piezoelectric Half-Space
V. Laude, C. F. Jerez-Hanckes, and S. Ballandras. . . 420
  Transducers and Transducers Materials
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Quality Factor Concept in Piezoceramic Transformer Performance Description
A. V. Mezheritsky. . . 429
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Determination of Lamb Wave Dispersion Data in Lossy Anisotropic Plates Using Time Domain Finite Element Analysis. Part I: Theory and Experimental Verification
G. Hayward and J. Hyslop. . . 443
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Determination of Lamb Wave Dispersion Data in Lossy Anisotropic Plates Using Time Domain Finite Element Analysis. Part II: Application to 2-2 and 1-3 Piezoelectric Composite Transducer Arrays
G. Hayward and J. Hyslop. . . 449
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Analysis of Plate Piezoelectric Unimorphs
J. Yang, H. Zhou, and S. Dong. . . 456
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Performance Evaluation of a Valveless Micropump Driven by a Ring-Type Piezoelectric Actuator
T. Zhang and Q.-M. Wang. . . 463
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Annular-Ring CMUT Arrays for Forward-Looking IVUS: Transducer Characterization and Imaging
F. L. Degertekin, R. O. Guldiken, and M. Karaman. . . 474
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CMUTS with Dual-Electrode Structure for Improved Transmit and Receive Performance
R. O. Guldiken, J. McLean, and F. L. Degertekin. . . 483

CORRESPONDENCE

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Solidly Mounted ZnO Shear Mode Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators for Sensing Applications in Liquids
M. Link, M. Schreiter, J. Weber, R. Primig, D. Pitzer, and R Gabl. . . 492
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Effect of Critical Dimension Variation on SAW Correlator Energy
J. L. Skinner, G. F. Cardinale, A. A. Talin, and R. W. Brocato. . . 497
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Proton-Exchanged 36º Y-X LiTaO3 Waveguides for Surface Acoustic Wave
C.-J. Chung, K.-S. Kao, C.-C. Cheng, and Y.-C. Chen. . . 502