January 2005 Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

January 2005

VOLUME 52

NUMBER 1

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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143 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1

172 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .6 Multimedia-zipped

172 KB	Call for Papers: "Special Issue on Novel Equipment for Ultrasound Research" . . .7

172 KB	Call for Papers: “Special Issue on Modeling, Optimization, and Design of Acoustic Devices” . . .8

172 KB	In Memoriam: Professor Lev Aleksandrovich Shuvalov . . .9


PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

342 KB	An Improved Thick-Film Piezoelectric Material by Powder Blending and Enhanced Processing Parameters R. N. Torah, S. P. Beeby, and N. M. White . . 10

	*Frequency Control*

509 KB	Distributed Bragg Reflector Resonators with Cylindrical Symmetry and Extremely High Q-factors M. E. Tobar, J.-M. le Floch, D. Cros, and J. G. Hartnett. . . 17

509 KB	Predicting Phase Noise in Crystal Oscillators F. Sthal, S. Galliou, N. Gufflet, and M. Mourey. . . 27

	*Physical Acoustics*

606 KB	Coupled Tangential-Axial Resonant Modes of Piezoelectric Hollow Cylinders and Their Application in Ultrasonic Motors O. Vyshnevskyy, S. Kovalev, and J. Mehner. . . 31

	*Medical Ultrasound*

1 MB	Coherent-Array Imaging Using Phased Subarrays. Part I: Basic Principles J. A. Johnson, M. Karaman, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 37

1 MB	Coherent Array Imaging Using Phased Subarrays. Part II: Simulations and Experimental Results J. A. Johnson, Ö.Oralkan, S. Ergun, U. Demirci, M. Karaman, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 51

1 MB	High Frequency Nonlinear B-Scan Imaging of Microbubble Contrast Agents D. E. Goertz, E. Cherin, A. Needles, R. Karshafian, A. S. Brown, P. N. Burns, and F. S. Foster. . . 65

1 MB	A Spline-Based Algorithm for Continuous Time-Delay Estimation Using Sampled Data F. Viola and W. F. Walker. . . 80

1 MB	Effect of Red Cell Clustering and Anisotropy on Ultrasound Blood Backscatter: A Monte Carlo Study D. Savéry and G. Cloutier. . . 94

1 MB	Optical Observations of Acoustical Radiation Force Effects on Individual Air Bubbles P. Palanchon, P. Tortoli, A. Bouakaz, M. Versluis, and N. de Jong. . . 104

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

1 MB	Extraction of the SAW Attenuation Parameter in Periodic Reflecting Gratings S. Lehtonen, V. P. Plessky, C. S. Hartmann, and M. M. Salomaa. . . 111

1 MB	New Architectures for Feedthrough SAW Recursive Devices A. N. Kalashnikov and R. E. Challis. . . 120

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*


1 MB	Half-Thickness Inversion Layer High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers Using LiNbO₃ Single Crystal Q. F. Zhou, J. M. Cannata, H. K. Guo, C. Z. Huang, V. Z. Marmarelis, and K. K. Shung. . . 127


CORRESPONDENCE

1 MB	Bidirectional Linear Ultrasonic Motor Using Longitudinal Vibrating Transducers F. Zhang, W. Chen, J. Liu, and Z. Wang. . . 134

1 MB	Vibrations of an Isotropic Elastic Wedge J. Yang and H. Zhou. . . 139

1 MB	Surface Acoustic Waves on X-Cut LiNbO₃ W. Soluch and M. Lysakowska. . . 145