TUFFC March 2005 Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

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

March 2005

VOLUME 52

NUMBER 3

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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143 KB	Information For Contributors. . .341

172 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .346 Multimedia-zipped

172 KB	Call for Papers: "Special Issue on Novel Equipment for Ultrasound Research" . . .347

172 KB	Call for Papers: “Special Issue on Nanoscale Ferroelectrics”” . . .348

172 KB	Call for Papers: “Special Issue on Modeling, Optimization, and Design of Acoustic Devices” . . .349



PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

896 KB	Fabrication and Characterization of Micromachined High-Frequency Tonpilz Transducers Derived by PZT Thick Films Q. Zhou, J. M. Cannata, R. J. Meyer, Jr., D. J. Van Tol, S. Tadigadapa, W. J. Hughes, K. K. Shung, and S. Trolier-McKinstry. . . 350

	*Physical Acoustics*

191 KB	Free Vibrations of an Electroelastic Body under Biasing Fields J. Yang. . . 358

1 MB	Temperature Effect on the Bandgaps of Surface and Bulk Acoustic Waves in Two-Dimensional Phononic Crystals Z.-G. Huang and T.-T. Wu. . . 365

	*Medical Ultrasound*

295 KB	Finite-Difference, Time-Domain Analysis of a Folded Acoustic Transmission Line C. M. Jackson. . . 371

1 MB	Development and Evaluation of a High-Frequency Ultrasound-Based System for In Vivo Strain Imaging of the Skin M. Vogt and H. Ermert. . . 375 Multimedia-zipped

660 KB	Determination of an Optimal Image Frame Interval For Frame-to-Frame Ultrasound Image Motion Tracking J. S. Ha, W. F. Walker, and J. A. Hossack. . . 386

2.24 MB	A Full-Wave Helmholtz Model for Continuous-Wave Ultrasound Transmission T. Huttunen, M. Malinen, J. P. Kaipio, P. J. White, and K. Hynynen. . . 397

597 KB	Identification of Ultrasound Contrast Agent Dilution Systems for Ejection Fraction Measurements M. Mischi, A. H. M. Jansen, A. A. C. M. Kalker, and H. H. M. Korsten. . . 410

603 KB	Acoustic Radiation Force Enhances Targeted Delivery of Ultrasound Contrast Microbubbles: In Vitro Verification J. J. Rychak, A. L. Klibanov, and J. A. Hossack. . . 421

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*

466 KB	Considerations in the Design and Sensitivity Optimization of the Micro Tactile Sensor Y. Murayama and S. Omata. . . 434

510 KB	Remote Sensing of Mechanical Properties of Materials Using a Novel Ultrasound Transducer and Signal Processing Y. Murayama, C. E. Constantinou, and S. Omata. . . 439

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*

1.4 MB	A Study of Crosstalk Effects on the Packaged SAW by the FDTD Method K.-Y. Lin and K.-H. Lin. . . 445

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

1 MB	Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: Modeling the Influence of Structural Parameters on Device Performance F. Akasheh, J. D. Fraser, S. Bose, and A. Bandyopadhyay. . . 455

506 KB	An Analytical Model of Multilayer Ultrasonic Transducers with an Inversion Layer C. Huang, V. Z. Marmarelis, Q. Zhou, and K. K. Shung. . . 469

518 KB	Applying Taguchi Dynamic Characteristics to the Robust Design of a Piezoelectric Sensor D. H. Wu, W. T. Chien, and Y. J. Tsai. . . 480


CORRESPONDENCE


215 KB	Spurious Suppression of a Microstrip Bandpass Filter Using Three Types of Rectangular PBG Loops M.-H. Weng, R.-Y. Yuan, T.-H. Huang, H.-J. Chen, W.-N. Chen, and M.-P. Houng. . . 487

329 KB	Application of the Schlieren Pulsed Method for the Observation of Simple and Multiple Scattering of Ultrasonic Waves I. Núñez, A. Arzúa, G. Cortela, and C. Negreira. . . 491

1.8 MB	High-Frequency, Nonlinear Flow Imaging of Microbubble Contrast Agents D. E. Goertz, A. Needles, P. N. Burns, and F. S. Foster. . . 495

140 KB	Surface Acoustic Wave Properties of Proton-Exchanged LiNbO₃ Waveguides with SiO₂ Film K.-S. Kao, C.-C. Cheng, C.-J. Chung, and Y.-C. Chen. . . 503