1986 IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferromagnetics, and Frequency Control, No. 4

Front Matter

Acknowledgment of Associate Editors and Their Reviewers
- William D. O'Brien

Ultrasonic Characterization of Canine Myocardium Contraction
- Keith A. Wear, Thomas A. Shoup, Richard L. Popp

Nondestructive Inspection of a Wooden Pole Using Ultrasonic Computed Tomography
- Yoshiro Tomikawa, Yukiharu Iwase, Kishio Arita, Hiroaki Yamada

Estimation of the Speed of Ultrasound Propagation in Biological Tissues: A Beam-Tracking Method
- Jonathan Ophir

New Types of SAW Reflectors and Resonators Consisting of Reflecting Elements with Positive and Negative Reflection Coefficients
- Masao Takeuchi, Kazuhiko Yamanouchi

A Rigorous Computational Technique for the Acousto-Electric Field Problem in SAW Devices
- Walter J. Ghijsen, Peter M. van den Berg

Lateral Field Equivalent Networks and Piezocoupling Factors of Quartz Plates Driven in Simple Thickness Modes
- Arthur Ballato, Elizabeth R. Hatch, Muhammad Mizan, Theodore J. Lukaszek

An Improvement to the Rytov Approximation in Diffraction Tomography
- Mehrdad Soumekh

Analysis and Comparison of Some Frequency Compounding Algorithms for the Reduction of Ultrasonic Clutter
- Israel Amir, Nihat M. Bilgutay, Vernon L. Newhouse

A Closed-Form Expression for Apodization Loss
- Giuseppe Macchiarella

Transmission-Line Approach for Computation of Static Capacitance of Interdigital Transducers in Multilayered Media
- B. S. Panwar, A. B. Bhattacharya, E. Dieulesaint

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