TUFFC January 2006 Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

January 2006

VOLUME 53

NUMBER 1

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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165 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1

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

28 KB	Call for Papers: 15th IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .7

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

172 KB	Call for Papers: Special Issue on High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging in Industrial, Material, and Biomaterial Applications . . .9



PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

161 KB	Determination of the Electromechanical Coupling Factor of Gallium Orthophosphate (GaPO4) and its Influence on Resonance-Frequency Temperature Dependencies J. Nosek and M. Pustka. . . 10

389 KB	Influence of Test Capacitor Features on Piezoelectric and Dielectric Measurement of Ferroelectric Films Z. Wang, G. K. Lau, W. Zhu, and C. Chao. . . 15 Multimedia-zipped

472 KB	High Power Universal Piezoelectric Transformer S. Priya. . . 23

	*Frequency Control*

96 KB	The Technical Development of Crystals and Oscillators in China and Their Market Situation W. Zhou, H. Wang, H. Zhou, J. Gao, and L. Bai. . . 30

560 KB	Room Temperature Measurement of the Anisotropic Loss Tangent of Sapphire Using the Whispering Gallery Mode Technique J. G. Hartnett, M. E. Tobar, E. N. Ivanov, and J. Krupka. . . 34

	*Medical Ultrasound*

1.3 MB	Effects of Frequency-Dependent Attenuation and Velocity Dispersion on In Vitro Ultrasound Velocity Measurements in Intact Human Femur Specimens G. Haïat, F. Padilla, R. O. Cleveland, and P. Laugier. . . 39 Multimedia-zipped

1 MB	Improving Accuracy in Estimation of Artery-Wall Displacement by Referring to Center Frequency of RF Echo H. Hasegawa and H. Kanai. . . 52

1.6 MB	Despeckling of Medical Ultrasound Images O. Michailovich and A. Tannenbaum. . . 64

534 KB	Reduction of Variance in Spectral Estimates for Correction of Ultrasonic Aberration J. P. Astheimer, W. C. Pilkington, and R. C. Waag. . . 79 Multimedia-zipped

750 KB	Optimizing Multicompression Approaches to Elasticity Imaging H. Du, J. Liu, C. Pellot-Barakat, and M. F. Insana. . . 90

601 KB	Real-Time, 3-D Ultrasound with Multiple Transducer Arrays M. P. Fronheiser, E. D. Light, S. F. Idriss, P. D. Wolf, and S. W. Smith. . . 100

602 KB	Arbitrary Waveform Coded Excitation Using Bipolar Square Wave Pulsers in Medical Ultrasound S.-W. Huang and P.-C. Li. . . 106

1.1 MB	Optical and Acoustic Detection of Laser-Generated Microbubbles in Single Cells M. J. Zohdy, C. Tse, J. Y. Ye, and M. O’Donnell. . . 117 Multimedia-zipped

838 KB	Ultrasonic Contrast Agent Shell Rupture Detected by Inertial Cavitation and Rebound Signals A. Y. Ammi, R. O. Cleveland, J. Mamou, G. I. Wang, S. L. Bridal, and W. D. O’Brien, Jr.. . . 126

645 KB	Enhanced Heat Deposition Using Ultrasound Contrast Agent—Modeling and Experimental Observations D. Razansky, P. D. Einziger, and D. R. Adam. . . 137

	*Physical Acoustics*

1.4 MB	Three-Dimensional Phononic Band Gap Calculations Using the FDTD Method and a PC Cluster System P.-F. Hsieh, T.-T. Wu, J.-H. Sun. . . 148

537 KB	Dynamic Measurement of Amplitude-Frequency Effect of VHF Resonators W. H. Horton and G. E. Hague, II. . . 159 Multimedia-zipped

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

311 KB	The Study of an Interaction of Solid Particles with Various Surfaces Using TSM Sensors Q. Zhang, R. M. Lec, and K. Pourrezaei. . . 167

652 KB	Comparative Study of the Nonlinear Behavior of Fatigued and Intact Samples of Metallic Alloys C. Campos-Pozuelo, C. Vanhille, and J. A. Gallego-Juárez. . . 175

1.7 MB	Ultrasonic Imaging of Biofilms Utilizing Echoes from the Biofilm/Air Interface A. K. Holmes, J. Laybourn-Parry, J. D. Parry, M. E. Unwin, and R. E. Challis. . . 185 Multimedia-zipped

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

308 KB	Minimizing the Bulk-Wave Scattering Loss in Dual-Mode SAW Devices W. Wang, X. Zhang, Y. Shui, H. Wu, D. Zhang, and V. P. Plessky. . . 193

1.2 MB	Pure SH-SAW Propagation, Transduction and Measurements on KNbO₃ T. B. Pollard, T. D. Kenny, J. F. Vetelino, and M. P. da Cunha. . . 199

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

4.9 MB	Theoretical Analysis of Micro-Machined Ultrasonic Transducer Using a Simple 1-D Model S. J. Ballandras, M. Wilm, and J.-F. Gelly. . . 209

1.5 MB	Development of a 35-MHz Piezo-Composite Ultrasound Array for Medical Imaging J. M. Cannata, J. A. Williams, Q. Zhou, T. A. Ritter, and K. K. Shung. . . 224

CORRESPONDENCE

361 KB	Modeling and Design Optimization of Large-Deflection Piezoelectric Folded Cantilever Microactuators H. Fang, L. Liu, and T. Ren. . . 237

451 KB	Thickness-Shear Vibrations of Rotated Y-cut Quartz Plates with Imperfectly Bonded Surface Mass Layers J. Yang, Y. Hu, Y. Zeng, and H. Fan. . . 241

132 KB	The Gaussian Beam Expansion Applied to Fresnel Field Integrals D. Ding and J. Xu. . . 246

188 KB	Surface Acoustic Wave Velocity in Single-Crystal AlN Substrates G. Bu, D. Ciplys, M. Shur, L. J. Schowalter, S. Schujman, and R. Gaska. . . 251