T-UFFC July Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

July 2007

VOLUME 54

NUMBER 7

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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128 KB	Information For Contributors. . .1281

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LETTERS

116 KB	A Shear Horizontal Surface Wave in Magnetoelectric Materials J. Liu, D. Fang, and X. Liu. . . 1287

143 KB	Frequency Shift of Thickness-Shear Vibrations of AT-Cut Quartz Resonators Due to a Liquid Layer with the Electrode Stiffness Considered Y. Jing, J. Chen, X. Chen, and X. Gong. . . 1290


PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

818 KB	Optimal Design of Piezoelectric Transformers: A Rational Approach Based on an Analytical Model and a Deterministic Global Optimization F. Pigache, F. Messine, and B. Nogarede. . . 1293

	*Medical Ultrasound*

4.2 MB	Motion Artifacts of Extended High Frame Rate Imaging J. Wang and J.-y. Lu . . . 1303 Multimedia-zipped

4.5 MB	An Eigenfunction Method for Reconstruction of Large-Scale and High-Contrast Objects R. C. Waag, F. Lin, T. K. Varslot, and J. P. Astheimer . . . 1316 Multimedia-zipped

2 MB	Method for Microbubble Characterization Using Primary Radiation Force H. J. Vos, F. Guidi, E. Boni, and P. Tortoli . . . 1333 Multimedia-zipped

276 KB	Harmonic Vibro-Acoustography S. Chen, R. R. Kinnick, J. F. Greenleaf, and M. Fatemi . . . 1346

389 KB	The Effect of Phase Cancellation on Estimates of Calcaneal Broadband Ultrasound Attenuation in Vivo K. A. Wear . . . 1352

1 MB	Ultrasonic Detection of the Anisotropy of Protein Cross Linking in Myocardium at Diagnostic Frequencies S.-L. Baldwin, M. Yang, K. R. Marutyan, K. D. Wallace, M. R. Holland, and J. G. Miller . . . 1360

1 MB	Third Harmonic Transmit Phasing for Tissue Harmonic Generation C.-C. Shen, Y.-C. Wang, and Y.-C. Hsieh . . . 1370

	*Physical Acoustics*

619 KB	Properties of the Anisimkin Jr.’ Modes in Quartz Plates Y. V. Gulyaev. . . 1382

3.5 MB	Estimation of Quartz Resonator Q and other Figures of Merit by an Energy Sink Method Y.-K. Yong, M. S. Patel, and M. Tanaka. . . 1386

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

433 KB	An Implementation of Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique in Frequency Domain T. Stepinski. . . 1399

1.4 MB	Increased Efficiency of Surface Wave Stimulation on the Inaccessible Side of a Thick Isotropic Plate with Superimposed Periodicity N. F. Declercq and B. Sarens. . . 1409

857 KB	Elastic Guided Wave Propagation in Electrical Cables C. Mateo, J. A. Talavera, and A. Muñoz. . . 1423

748 KB	The Band Gaps of Plate-Mode Waves in One-Dimensional Piezoelectric Composite Plates: Polarizations and Boundary Conditions X.-Y. Zou, Q. Chen, and J.-C. Cheng. . . 1430

505 KB	Air-Coupled Ultrasound: A Novel Technique for Monitoring the Curing of Thermosetting Matrices F. Lionetto, A. Tarzia, and A. Maffezzoli. . . 1437

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

785 KB	Rayleigh Wave Reflection and Scattering Calculation by Source Regeneration Method W. Wang, T. Han, X. Zhang, H. Wu, and Y. Shui. . . 1445

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

803 KB	Polishing of Quartz by Rapid Etching in Ammonium Bifluoride Ö.Vallin, R. Danielsson, U. Lindberg, and G. Thornell. . . 1454

418 KB	Analysis of a Piezoelectric Bimorph Plate with a Central-Attached Mass as an Energy Harvester S. Jiang and Y. Hu. . . 1463

CORRESPONDENCE

373 KB	Identifying the Signal of Interest for Partially Overlapping Ultrasonic Echoes R. Cepel and S. P. Neal. . . 1470

574 KB	Obtaining Quartz Crystal Frequencies from Deterministic Temperatures and Random Angle Variations D. Chandler, J. Garstecki, and A. Morales. . . 1475


142 KB	Nonlinear Torsional Vibration of a Circular Cylindrical Piezoelectric Rod with Relatively Large Shear Deformation J. Yang. . . 1482


377 KB	Combination of e-Beam Lithography and of High Velocity AlN/Diamond-Layered Structure for SAW Filters in X Band P. Kirsch, M. B. Assouar, O. Elmazria, M. El Hakiki, V. Mortet, and P. Alnot. . . 1486