IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL
A   PUBLICATION  OF  THE  IEEE  ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS  AND  FREQUENCY  CONTROL  SOCIETY
June 2006 VOLUME 53 NUMBER 6 ITUCER (ISSN 0885-3010)
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Information For Contributors. . .1073
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PAPERS

  Medical Ultrasound
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Novel Transmit Aperture for Very Large Depth of Focus in Medical Ultrasound B-Scan
Y. Zheng and S. D. Silverstein. . . 1079
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A Novel Performance Descriptor for Ultrasonic Strain Imaging: A Preliminary Study
J. Jiang, T. J. Hall, and A. M. Sommer. . . 1088
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Rapid Tracking of Small Displacements with Ultrasound
G. F. Pinton, J. J. Dahl, and G. E. Trahey. . . 1103
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A New Formalism for the Quantification of Tissue Perfusion by the Destruction-Replenishment Method in Contrast Ultrasound Imaging
M. Arditi, P. J. A. Frinking, X. Zhou, and N. G. Rognin. . . 1118
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Observation of Contrast Agent Response to Chirp Insonation with a Simultaneous Optical-Acoustical System
Y. Sun, S. Zhao, P. A. Dayton, and K. W. Ferrara. . . 1130
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Noninvasive Transesophageal Cardiac Thermal Ablation Using a 2-D Focused Ultrasound Phased Array: A Simulation Study
X. Yin, L. M. Epstein, and K. Hynynen. . . 1138
  Physical Acoustics
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A Time-Space Decomposition Method for Calculating the Nearfield Pressure Generated by a Pulsed Circular Piston
J. F. Kelly and R. J. McGough. . . 1150
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A Simple Bidirectional Linear Microactuator for Nanopositioning—the “Baltan” Microactuator
J. Friend, Y. Gouda, K. Nakamura, and S. Ueha. . . 1160
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Bleustein-Gulyaev-Shimizu Surface Acoustic Waves in Two-Dimensional Piezoelectric Phononic Crystals
J.-C. Hsu and T.-T. Wu. . . 1169
  Surface Acoustic Waves
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Performance Evaluation of Algorithms for SAW-Based Temperature Measurement
S. Schuster, S. Scheiblhofer, L. Reindl, and A. Stelzer. . . 1177
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Development of Fast-Scanning Laser Probe System Based on Knife-Edge Method for Diagnosis of RF Surface Acoustic Wave Devices
H. Kamizuma, T. Omori, K. Hashimoto, and M. Yamaguchi. . . 1186
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Finite-Element Simulation of Wave Propagation in Periodic Piezoelectric SAW Structures
M. Hofer, N. Finger, G. Kovacs, J. Schöberl, S. Zaglmayr, U. Langer, and R. Lerch. . . 1192
  Transducers and Tranducers Materials
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3-D Ultrasound Imaging Using a Forward-Looking CMUT Ring Array for Intravascular/Intracardiac Applications
D. T. Yeh, Ö. Oralkan, I. O. Wygant, M. O’Donnell, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 1202
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CORRESPONDENCE

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Flexible Piezopolymer Ultrasonic Guided Wave Arrays
T. R. Hay and J. L. Rose. . . 1212
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Consideration of Stiffness and Mass Effects of Relatively Thicker Electrodes with Mindlin Plate Theory
J. Wang. . . 1218