UFFC January Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

January 2007

VOLUME 54

NUMBER 1

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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128 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1

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

23 KB	A Call For Papers: Special Issue on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound in Bone . . .7



PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

403 KB	Piezoelectric Thin Films: Evaluation of Electrical and Electromechanical Characteristics for MEMS Devices K. Prume, P. Muralt, F. Calame, T. Schmitz-Kempen, and S. Tiedke. . . 8

	*Frequency Control*

388 KB	On the 1/f Frequency Noise in Ultra-Stable Quartz Oscillators E. Rubiola and V. Giordano. . . 15

	*Medical Ultrasound*

2 MB	Three-Dimensional Spatial and Temporal Temperature Imaging in Gel Phantoms Using Backscattered Ultrasound A. Anand, D. Savéry, and C. Hall. . . 23

1.4 MB	The Impact of Aberration on High Frame Rate Cardiac B-Mode Imaging T. Bjåstad, S. A. Aase, and H. Torp. . . 32 Multimedia-zipped

2 MB	Implementation of the Near-Field Signal Redundancy Phase-Aberration Correction Algorithm on Two-Dimensional Arrays Y. Li and B. Robinson. . . 42

1.5 MB	Modeling Prostate Anatomy from Multiple View TRUS Images for Image-Guided HIFU Therapy M. A. Penna, K. A. Dines, R. Seip, R. F. Carlson, and N. T. Sanghvi. . . 52

1.5 MB	Estimating the Blood Velocity Vector Using Aperture Domain Data S.-L. Wang, M.-L. Li, and P.-C. Li. . . 70

501 KB	Novel Transmit Protection Scheme for Ultrasound Systems M. I. Fuller, T. N. Blalock, J. A. Hossack, and W. F. Walker. . . 79

	*Physical Acoustics*

1.3 MB	Micromachined Thin Film Plate Acoustic Resonators Utilizing the Lowest Order Symmetric Lamb Wave Mode V. Yantchev and I. Katardjiev. . . 87

878 KB	Numerical Analysis of Strongly Nonlinear Extensional Vibrations in Elastic Rods C. Vanhille and C. Campos-Pozuelo. . . 96

1.6 MB	Effects of a Parallel Resistor on Electrical Characteristics of a Piezoelectric Transformer in Open-Circuit Transient State K.-T. Chang. . . 107

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

1.5 MB	Inverse Wave Field Extrapolation: A Different NDI Approach to Imaging Defects N. Pörtzgen, D. Gisolf, and G. Blacquière. . . 118

1.8 MB	A New Elastic-Wave-Based Imaging Method for Scanning the Defects Inside the Structure J.-H. Tong, S.-T. Liao, and C.-C. Lin. . . 128

399 KB	Model-Based Phase Velocity and Attenuation Estimation in Wideband Ultrasonic Measurement Systems J. Martinsson, J. E. Carlson, and J. Niemi. . . 138

922 KB	Generation of Narrowband Antisymmetric Lamb Waves Using a Formed Laser Source in the Ablative Regime C. Cosenza, S. Kenderian, B. B. Djordjevic, R. E. Green, Jr., and A. Pasta. . . 147

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

2 MB	Polymer Coating Behavior of Rayleigh-SAW Resonators with Gold Electrode Structure for Gas Sensor Applications I. D. Avramov, K. Länge, S. Rupp, B. Rapp, and M. Rapp. . . 157

1 MB	SAW Filters Based on Parallel-Connected Coupled Resonator Filters with Offset Frequencies J. Meltaus, V. P. Plessky, S. Härmä, and M. M. Salomaa. . . 167

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

600 KB	Modeling of Nonlinear Responses for Reciprocal Transducers Involving Polarization Switching L. X. Wang and M. Willatzen. . . 177

319 KB	An Exact Analysis of a Rectangular Plate Piezoelectric Generator J. Yang, Z. Chen, and Y. Hu. . . 190


CORRESPONDENCE

334 KB	Thermal Compensation in GaPO₄ Beam Resonators: Experimental Evidence for Length Extensional Mode F. Sthal, E. Bigler, and R. Bourquin. . . 196


ERRATA

1.5 MB	An Ultrasound Research Interface for a Clinical System S. S. Brunke, M. F. Insana, J. J. Dahl, C. Hansen, M. Ashfaq, and H. Ermert. . . 198