IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL
A   PUBLICATION  OF  THE  IEEE  ULTRASONICS,  FERROELECTRICS  AND  FREQUENCY  CONTROL  SOCIETY
May 2007 VOLUME 54 NUMBER 5 ITUCER (ISSN 0885-3010)
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Table of Contents

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Information For Contributors. . .897
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A Multimedia Example . . .902
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Call For Papers: Special Issue on Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .903
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Call For Papers: Special Issue on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound in Bone . . .904

LETTERS

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Comment on “Modeling of Elastic Nonlinearities in Ferroelectric Materials” [See Reference [1]]
J. Yang. . . 905
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Stress-induced Frequency Shifts in Rotated Y-cut Langasite Resonators with Electrodes Considered
Y. Jing, J. Chen, X. Gong, and J. Duan. . . 906

PAPERS

  Ferroelectrics
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Piezoelectric Properties in (K0.5Bi0.5)TiO3- (Na0.5Bi0.5)TiO3-BaTiO3 Lead-Free Ceramics
S. Zhang, T. R. Shrout, H. Nagata, Y. Hiruma, and T. Takenaka. . . 910
  Frequency Control
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Considerations on the Measurement of the Stability of Oscillators with Frequency Counters
S. T. Dawkins, J. J. McFerran, and A. N. Luiten. . . 918
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The Effect of AM Noise on Correlation Phase-Noise Measurements
E. Rubiola and R. Boudot. . . 926
  Medical Ultrasound
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Acoustic Droplet Vaporization Threshold: Effects of Pulse Duration and Contrast Agent
A. H. Lo, O. D. Kripfgans, P. L. Carson, E. D. Rothman, and J. B. Fowlkes. . . 933
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Binary Code Design for High-Frequency Ultrasound
S.-W. Huang and P.-C. Li. . . 947
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High-Frequency Ultrasound Sensors Using Polymer Microring Resonators
C.-Y. Chao, S. Ashkenazi, S.-W. Huang, M. O’Donnell, and L. J. Guo. . . 957
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Free-Hand Ultrasound Scanning Approaches for Volume Quantification of the Mouse Heart Left Ventricle
C. D. Garson, Y. Li, and J. A. Hossack. . . 966
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Intravascular Photoacoustic Imaging Using an IVUS Imaging Catheter
S. Sethuraman, S. R. Aglyamov, J. H. Amirian, R. W. Smalling, and S. Y. Emelianov. . . 978
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Strain Imaging Using Conventional and Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging: Numerical Analysis
S. Park, S. R. Aglyamov, W. G. Scott, and S. Y. Emelianov. . . 987
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Challenges and Implementation of Radiation-Force Imaging with an Intracardiac Ultrasound Transducer
S. J. Hsu, B. J. Fahey, D. M. Dumont, P. D. Wolf, and G. E. Trahey. . . 996
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SNR Comparisons of Beamforming Strategies
J. Liu, K.-S. Kim, and M. S. Insana. . . 1010
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Array Signal Processing for Local Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity Measurement Using Ultrasound
R. T. Hoctor, A. M. Dentinger, and K. E. Thomenius. . . 1018
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Characterization of Changes in Therapeutic Ultrasound Transducer Performance Over Time Using the Angular Spectrum Method
X. Wu, A. Worthington, M. Gertner, J. W. Hunt, and M. D. Sherar. . . 1028
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An Ultrasonic Time-Delay Spectrometry System Employing Digital Processing
P. M. Gammell, S. Maruvada, and G. R. Harris. . . 1036
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A Spline-Based Approach for Computing Spatial Impulse Responses
M. A. Ellis, D. Guenther, and W. F. Walker. . . 1045
  Physical Acoustics
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Acoustic Characterization and Prediction of the Cut-Off Dimensionless Frequency of an Elastic Tube by Neural Networks
A. Dariouchy, E. H. Aassif, D. Décultot, and G. Maze. . . 1055
  Transducers and Transducers Materials
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Characterization of cMUTs in Rarefied Gases
L. A. J. Davis, D. A. Hutchins, and R. A. Noble. . . 1065

CORRESPONDENCE

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Wavenumber Domain Analysis of Two-Dimensional SAW Images Captured by Phase-Sensitive Laser Probe System
K.-Y. Hashimoto, H. Kamizuma, M. Watanabe, T. Omori, and M. Yamaguchi. . . 1072
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A Fractional Filter-Based Beamformer Architecture Using Postfiltering Approach to Minimize Hardware Complexity
J. Cho, J.-Y. Lee, J.-H. Song, Y. Kim, and T.-K. Song. . . 1076