IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics,
and Frequency Control

SEPTEMBER 1996 Volume 43 Number 5

CONTENTS

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Publication and Proposed Revision of ANSI/IEEE Standard 176-1987 “ANSI/IEEE Standard on Piezoelectricity”
T. R. Meeker. . .717

A Point-Matching Method for Array Pattern Synthesis
L. Wu, A. Zielinski, and J. S. Bird. . .773

Multiresonance Design of a Tonpilz Transducer Using the Finite Element Method
D. W. Hawkins and P. T. Gough. . .782

Transcutaneous Measurement and Spectrum Analysis of Heart Wall Vibrations
H. Kanai, M. Sato, Y. Koiwa, and N. Chubachi. . .791

Two-Dimensional Analysis Using One-Dimensional FEM for Straight-Crested Waves in Arbitrary Anisotropic Crystal Plates and Axisymmetric Piezoelectric Vibrations in Ceramic Disks
A. Ishizaki and H. Sekimoto. . .811

Influence of a Magnetic Field on Quartz Crystal Resonators
R. Brendel. . .818

Torsional Vibrations of Quartz Crystal Beams
H. Kawashima and K. Sunaga. . .832

Acceleration Measurement Using PVDF
Ph. Benech, E. Chamberod, and C. Monllor. . .838

Perturbation Method for Analyzing Mass Sensitivity of Planar Multilayer Acoustic Sensors
Z. Wang, J. D. N. Cheeke, and C. K. Jen. . .844

Mass Sensitivity of Thin Rod Acoustic Wave Sensors
M. Viens, P. C. H. Li, Z. Wang, C. K. Jen, M. Thompson, and J. D. N. Cheeke. . .852

On the Performance Characterization of Ultrasonic Air Transducers with Radiating Membranes
R. Mitra. . .858

Estimation of the Angle Between Ultrasound Beam and Blood Velocity Through Correlation Functions
D. Dotti and R. Lombardi. . .864

Laser-Generated Ultrasonic Guided Waves in Fiber-Reinforced Plates-Theory and Experiment
L. P. Scudder, D. A. Hutchins, and N. Guo. . .870

Adaptive Pattern Correlation for Two-Dimensional Blood Flow Measurements
L.-M. Wang and K. K. Shung. . .881

Accuracy of Crystal Plate Theories for High-Frequency Vibrations in the Range of the Fundamental Thickness Shear Mode
Y.-K. Yong, Z. Zhang, and J. Hou. . .888

Producing Bowtie Limited Diffraction Beams with Synthetic Array Experiment
J. Lu. . .893

Ultrasonic Linear Motor Using Surface Acoustic Waves
M. Kurosawa, M. Takahashi, and T. Higuchi. . .901

An Experimental Study of Frequency Jumps During the Aging of Quartz Oscillators
M. Koyama, Y. Watanabe, H. Sekimoto, and Y. Oomura. . .907

Isomorphism Between Pulsed-Wave Doppler Ultrasound and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation-Part I: Basic Principles
M. E. Allam and J. F. Greenleaf. . .911

Isomorphism Between Pulsed-Wave Doppler Ultrasound and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation-Part II: Experimental Results
M. E. Allam, R. R. Kinnick, and J. F. Greenleaf. . .923

An Ultralow Noise Microwave Oscillator Based on a High-Q Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Sapphire Resonator
R. A. Woode, M. E. Tobar, E. N. Ivanov, and D. G. Blair. . .936

Contributions of Amplitude Measurement in QCM Sensors
C. Zhang and G. Feng. . .942

A Study of the Water Sorption Kinetic of Poly(HEMA) Hydrogels by SLAM and FT-IR Measurements
V. A. M. Luprano, G. Montagna, and A. Maffezzoli. . .948

Ultrasonic Imaging by Local Shape Function Method with CGFFT
J.-H. Lin and W. C. Chew. . .956

Absolute Backscatter Coefficient over a Wide Range of Frequencies in a Tissue-Mimicking Phantom Containing Two Populations of Scatterers
V. Roberjot, S. L. Bridal, P. Laugier, and G. Berger. . .970

Order Selection Criteria for Detecting Mean Scatterer Spacings with the AR Model
T. Varghese, K. D. Donohue, V. I. Genis, and E. J. Halpern. . .979

Cascading Formulas for Identical Transducer P-Matrices
D. P. Morgan. . .985