IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

November 1997 Volume 44, Number 6

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Comments on Real-Space Green's Function of an Isolated Point-Charge in an Unbounded Anisotropic Medium
G. Fischerauer... 1179

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Dynamic Shear Piezoelectricity of Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) Thin Films
V. L. Strashilov, J. I. Burov, and M. P. Nikolov... 1181

Sandwiched Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers of Longitudinal-Torsional Compound Vibrational Modes
L. Shuyu... 1189

Measurement of X-ray Intensity in the Medical Diagnostic Range by a Ferroelectric Detector
A. A. de Carvalho and A. J. Alter... 1198

Modeling of Piezoelectric Multilayer Ceramics Using Finite Element Analysis
R. L. Goldberg, M. J. Jurgens, D. M. Mills, C. S. Henriquez, D. Vaughan, and S. W. Smith... 1204

Diffraction of Two Optical Beams by a SAW in an Isotropic Solid
V. Tsarev... 1215

Precise Interferometric AO Method for SAW Velocity Measurements in an Anisotropic Solid
E. A. Kolosovsky, A. V. Tsarev, and I. B. Yakovkin... 1219

Principles of Local Sound Velocity and Attenuation Measurements Using Transmission Acoustic Microscope
R. G. Maev and V. M. Levin... 1224

Characterization and Imaging of SAW Grooved Transducer Acoustic Field by SLAM
V. I. Anisimkin, V.A.M. Luprano, M. Penza, G. Montagna, and A. I. Morozov... 1232

Impact of New High Stability Frequency Standards on the Performance of the NIST AT1 Time Scale
T. E. Parker and J. Levine... 1239

Enhanced Compressibility Tomography
S. Mensah and J-P. Lefebvre... 1245

Correlation Receivers Using Laguerre Filter Banks for Modelling Narrowband Ultrasonic Echoes and Estimating Their

Time-of-Flights
A. M. Sabatini... 1253

A Preliminary Evaluation of the Effects of Primary and Secondary Radiation Forces on Acoustic Contrast Agents

P. A. Dayton, K. E. Morgan, A. L. Klibanov, G. Brandenburger, K. R. Nightingale, and K. W. Ferrara... 1264

Characteristics of Acoustic Streaming Created and Measured by Pulsed Doppler Ultrasound
C. J. Hartley... 1278

Three-Dimensional Tissue Motion and Its Effect on Image Noise in Elastography
F. Kallel and J. Ophir... 1286

Application of the Photo-Elastic Method to Measurement of Dynamic Stress Distribution for NS-GT Cut Quartz Crystal

Resonators
S. Yamagata, H. Kawashima, and K. Sunaga... 1297

An Elasticity Microscope. Part I: Methods
N. A. Cohn, S. Y. Emelianov, M. A. Lubinski, and M. O'Donnell... 1304

An Elasticity Microscope. Part II: Experimental Results
N. A. Cohn, S. Y. Emelianov, and M. O'Donnell... 1320

An Extended Autocorrelation Method for Estimation of Blood Velocity
X. Lai, H. Torp, and K. Kristoffersen... 1332

Acceleration Sensitivity of Surface Wave Resonators
J. A. Kosinski and J. G. Gualtieri... 1343

Development of the Torque Accumulation Method for a Torsional Vibration System
J. Satonobu, F. Magane, Y. Koike, K. Nakamura, and S. Ueha... 1348

Phantom Materials for Elastography
T. J. Hall, M. Bilgen, M. F. Insana, and T. A. Krouskop... 1355

Phase Aberration Correction in Two Dimensions with an Integrated Deformable Actuator/Transducer
L. L. Ries and S. W. Smith ... 1366

Temperature Coefficient of Sensitivity Dependence of the Measurement Error of Quartz Crystal Resonators
R-G. Jia, J-S. Wang, and G-P. Feng... 1376

Two-Dimensional Ultrasonic Flaw Detection Based on the Wavelet Packet Transform
M. C. Robini, I. E. Magnin, H. Benoit-Cattin, and A. Baskurt... 1382

High Power Durability of Diamond Surface Acoustic Wave Filter
K. Higaki, H. Nakahata, H. Kitabayashi, S. Fujii, K. Tanabe, Y. Seki, and S. Shikata... 1395

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Radiation Imaging Operators Applied to the Detection of Velocity and Density Contrast Boundaries
M. I. Raza, R. E. DuBroff, and J. L. Drewniak... 1401

The Thermochemistry and Non-Ohmic Electrical Contacts of a BaTiO₃ PTCR Ceramic
D. P. Cann and C. A. Randall... 1405

Higher Order Versus Second Order Statistics in Ultrasound Image Deconvolution
U. R. Abeyratne, A. P. Petropulu, J. M Reid, T. Golas, E. Conant, and F. Forsberg... 1409

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Comparison of Cepstrum-Based Methods for Radial Blind Deconvolution of Ultrasound Images
T. Taxt... 1417

1997 Index:
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control... 1418