IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL
A   PUBLICATION  OF  THE  IEEE  ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS  AND  FREQUENCY  CONTROL  SOCIETY
March 2006 VOLUME 53 NUMBER 3 ITUCER (ISSN 0885-3010)
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Table of Contents

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Information For Contributors. . .507
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A Multimedia Example . . .512
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging in Industrial, Material, and Biomaterial Applications . . .513
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Call for Papers: 2006 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium . . .514

LETTERS

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A Comparison Between Spline-Based and Phase-Domain Time-Delay Estimators
F. Viola and W. F. Walker. . . 515

PAPERS

  Ferroelectrics
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Integration of Coplanar (Ba,Sr)TiO3 Microwave Phase Shifters onto Si Wafers Using TiO2 Buffer Layers
K.-B. Kim, T.-S. Yun, J.-C. Lee, H.-S. Kim, H.-G. Kim, and I.-D. Kim. . . 518
  Frequency Control
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The Pulsed Rubidium Clock
A. Godone, S. Micalizio, C. E. Calosso, and F. Levi. . . 525
  Medical Ultrasound
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Transit-Time Broadening in Pulsed Doppler Ultrasound: A Generalized Amplitude Modulation Model
A. C. H. Yu, A. H. Steinman, and R. S. C. Cobbold. . . 530
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Rhesus Monkey Brain Imaging Through Intact Skull with Thermoacoustic Tomography
Y. Xu and L. V. Wang. . . 542
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Modeling Ultrasound Imaging as a Linear, Shift-Variant System
J. Ng, R. Prager, N. Kingsbury, G. Treece, and A. Gee. . . 549
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Calibration of a Focusing Transducer and Miniature Hydrophone As Well As Acoustic Power Measurement Based on Free-Field Reciprocity in a Spherically Focused Wave Field
W. Shou, S. Duan, P. He, R. Xia, and D. Qian. . . 564
  Physical Acoustics
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Ultrasonic Collection of Small Particles by a Tapered Metal Strip
J. Hu, J. Xu, J. Yang, J. Du, Y. Cai, and C. Tay. . . 571
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Modeling and Analysis of Dual-Output Piezoelectric Transformer Operating at the Thickness-Shear Vibration Mode
J. Du, J. Hu, K.-J. Tseng, C. S. Kai, and G. C. Siong. . . 579
  Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications
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Measurement of the Amount and Number of Pollen Particles of Cryptomeria japonica (Taxodiaceae) by Imaging with a Photoacoustic Microscope
K. Miyamoto and T. Hoshimiya. . . 586
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Waveguide Damage Detection by the Matching Pursuit Approach Employing the Dispersion-Based Chirp Functions
J.-C. Hong, K. H. Sun, and Y. Y. Kim. . . 592
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Prediction of Molar Fractions in Two-Component Gas Mixtures Using Pulse-Echo Ultrasound and PLS Regression
J. E. Carlson and R. Carlson. . . 606
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Phased-Ultrasonic Receiving-Planar Array Transducer for Partial Discharge Location in Transformer
L. Yongfen, J. Shengchang, and L. Yanming. . . 614
  Transducers and Transducers Materials
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Operational Verification of a 40-MHz Annular Array Transducer
J. A. Ketterling, S. Ramachandran, and O. Aristizábal. . . 623
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Single Crystal PMN-PT/Epoxy 1-3 Composite for Energy-Harvesting Application
K. Ren, Y. Liu, X. Geng, H. F. Hofmann, and Q. M. Zhang. . . 631

CORRESPONDENCE

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Predicting Backscatter Characteristics from Micron- and Submicron-Scale Ultrasound Contrast Agents Using a Size-Integration Technique
H. Zheng, A. Barker, and R. Shandas. . . 639
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A Method to Synchronize High-Intensity, Focused Ultrasound with an Arbitrary Ultrasound Imager
N. R. Owen, M. R. Bailey, J. Hossack, and L. A. Crum. . . 645
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An Ultrasonic Transducer for Second Harmonic Imaging Using a LiNbO3 Plate with a Local Ferroelectric Inversion Layer
K. Nakamura, K. Fukazawa, K. Yamada, and S. Saito. . . 651
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Electric Energy Generator
C.-T. Chen, R. A. Islam, and S. Priya. . . 656
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Frequency Shifts in a Crystal Resonator Due to Submersion in a Fluid
J. Yang. . . 662