UFFC February Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

February 2007

VOLUME 54

NUMBER 2

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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128 KB	Information For Contributors. . .211

248 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .216 Multimedia-zipped

23 KB	A Call For Papers: Special Issue on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound in Bone . . .217

23 KB	Call For Papers: Special Issue on Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .218



LETTERS

58 KB	Comments on “Frequency Shifts in a Crystal Resonator Due to Submersion in a Fluid” [See Reference [1]] P. Kielczynski. . . 219


88 KB	Thickness-Twist Edge Modes in a Semi-Infinite Piezoelectric Plate of Crystals with 6mm Symmetry J. Yang. . . 220


PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

545 KB	Tunable Ferroelectric Capacitor-Based Voltage-Controlled Oscillator A. Jamil, T. S. Kalkur, and N. Cramer. . . 222

3.1 MB	Experimental Measurement and Numerical Analysis on Resonant Characteristics of Cantilever Plates for Piezoceramic Bimorphs C.-C. Ma, Y.-C. Lin, Y.-H. Huang, and H.-Y. Lin. . . 227

1.1 MB	Application of the Nonlinear, Double-Dynamic Taguchi Method to the Precision Positioning Device Using Combined Piezo-VCM Actuator Y.-T. Liu, R.-F. Fung, and C.-C. Wang. . . 240

	*Frequency Control*

2.7 MB	MEMS Technology for Timing and Frequency Control C. T.-C. Nguyen. . . 251

	*Medical Ultrasound*

1.5 MB	Parallel Beamforming Using Synthetic Transmit Beams T. Hergum, T. Bjåstad, K. Kristoffersen, and H. Torp. . . 271 Multimedia-zipped

2.5 MB	Finite Element Analysis of Tissue Deformation with a Radiofrequency Ablation Electrode for Strain Imaging J. Jiang, T. Varghese, Q. Chen, T. J. Hall, and J. A. Zagzebski. . . 281 Multimedia-zipped

709 KB	Detection of Tissue Harmonic Motion Induced by Ultrasonic Radiation Force Using Pulse-Echo Ultrasound and Kalman Filter Y. Zheng, S. Chen, W. Tan, R. Kinnick, and J. F. Greenleaf. . . 290

2.1 MB	A Parallel Tracking Method for Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging J. J. Dahl, G. F. Pinton, M. L. Palmeri, V. Agrawal, K. R. Nightingale, and G. E. Trahey. . . 301

512 KB	Interactive Volume Rendering of Real-Time Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Images J. Kuo, G. R. Bredthauer, J. B. Castellucci, and O. T. von Ramm. . . 313

1.7 MB	Barker-Coded Ultrasound Color Flow Imaging: Theoretical and Practical Design Considerations H. Zhao, L. Y. L. Mo, and S. Gao. . . 319

307 KB	Optimal Apodization Design for Medical Ultrasound Using Constrained Least Squares. Part I: Theory D. A. Guenther and W. F. Walker. . . 332

2.1 MB	Optimal Apodization Design for Medical Ultrasound Using Constrained Least Squares. Part II: Simulation Results D. A. Guenther and W. F. Walker. . . 343

	*Physical Acoustics*

1.3 MB	Multilayer Modal Actuator-Based Piezoelectric Transformers Y.-T. Huang, W.-J. Wu, Y.-C. Wang, and C.-K. Lee. . . 359

467 KB	Interaction of Lamb Modes with Delaminations in Plates Coated by Highly Absorbing Materials G. Shkerdin and C. Glorieux. . . 368

766 KB	Acoustic Impact Localization in Plates: Properties and Stability to Temperature Variation G. Ribay, S. Catheline, D. Clorennec, R. K. Ing, N. Quieffin, and M. Fink. . . 378

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

12 MB	An Ultrasonic Theoretical and Experimental Approach to Determine Thickness and Wave Speed in Layered Media A. V. Greco de Sousa, W. Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira, and J. C. Machado. . . 386

2 MB	The Frequency-Dependent Directivity of a Planar Fabry-Perot Polymer Film Ultrasound Sensor B. T. Cox and P. C. Beard. . . 394

381 KB	Investigation of the Scaling Rules Determining the Performance of Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators Operating as Mass Sensors J. Weber, M. Link, R. Primig, D. Pitzer, W. Wersing, and M. Schreiter. . . 405

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

614 KB	Design and Properties of STW Asynchronous Resonators on Quartz W. Soluch. . . 413
	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

608 KB	Finite Element Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Crosstalk in 1-D CMUT Arrays B. Bayram, M. Kupnik, G. G. Yaralioglu, Ö. Oralkan, A. S. Ergun, D.-S. Lin, S. H. Wong, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 418


CORRESPONDENCE

379 KB	Modular Design for In Vivo Optical Imaging and Ultrasound Treatment in the Murine Brain S. B. Raymond, J. Skoch, B. J. Bacskai, and K. Hynynen. . . 431

897 KB	Detection of Coagulating Blood Under Steady Flow by Statistical Analysis of Backscattered Signals C.-C. Huang, P.-H. Tsui, and S.-H. Wang. . . 435

429 KB	A Low-Cost Bipolar Pulse Generator for High-Frequency Ultrasound Applications X. Xu, J. T. Yen, and K. K. Shung. . . 443

212 KB	ThêoH and Allan Deviation as Power-Law Noise Estimators J. A. McGee and D. A. Howe. . . 448

361 KB	Analogs of Brewster’s Angles for Surface Acoustic Waves: The Dependence on the Strip Shape S. V. Biryukov and M. Weihnacht. . . 453