1987 Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings

Front Matter

Table of Contents

The Ubiquitous Nonlinearity: Its Origin in Solids
- M. A. Breazeale

Performance of Acoustic Charge Transport Programmable Tapped Delay Line
- F. Guediri, R. L. Martin, B. J. Hunsinger, F. M. Fliegel

Direct Optical Signal Injection in an Act Channel
- R. L. Miller, J. R. Willhite, A. DiVenere

Interaction Mechanisms Between Acoustic Waves and MESFETS on GaAs
- Sears W. Merritt, Donald E. Cullen, E. J. Branciforte

Modeled and Measured Act Based Convolver Performance
- R. W. Miller, H. L. Hsiung, W. D. Hunt, W. G. Doneghue, B. J. Hunsinger, F. M. Fliegel

Programmable Transversal Filters: Applications and Capabilities
- John H. Cafarella

Reduction of Close-to-Carrier Phase Noise in Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators
- M. J. Loboda, T. E. Parker, J. A. Greer, and G. K. Montress

Extremely Low Phase Noise SAW Resonator Oscillator Design and Performance
- G. K. Montress, T. E. Parker, and M. J. Loboda

Low-Noise Voltage Controlled SAW Oscillator for Phased Lock Loop Application
- Thomas F. Oshea, Michael R. Lewis, and Brent H. Horine

Portable Microwave Spectrum Analyzer with Phase Locked SAW Based Frequency Synthesis
- Steven Warwick, Tom Jerse, Robert Bray, Brian Hutchison, Scott Elliott

High Resolution Measurement of Short Term Time Domain Stability in a 960MHz SAW Resonator Oscillator
- P. A. Durrant, D. Harrison, M. Hobden, S. Neylon, V. Wilkinson

Beat-Frequency Spectra in a Driven Unlocked Multimode SAW Comb Oscillator
- C. K. Campbell

Optimum Coupling Circuits for SAW Transversal Filters
- R. LaRosa

Reduction of Metallic Grating Impedance and Velocity Perturbations Via Buried Bimetallic Electrode Geometries
- W. D. Hunt, B. J. Hunsinger

CAD of Precise SAW Convolvers and Long Delay Lines
- L. Reindl, H. -W. Worz, H. P. Grassl

Acousto-Electric Interaction in GaAs/AtAs Superlattice Using Seperate-Medium Configuration
- M. Tabib-Azar, M.N. Abedin, P. Das

A Comparison of the In-Plane Acceleration Sensitivity of ST- and SST-Cut Quartz Surface Wave Resonators
- D. V. Shick, Y. S. Zhou, H. F. Tiersten

SAW Group-Type Multistrip Coupler
- Pangchuan Qiu, Cheng Zhao, Zhunam Shi

Low Loss SAW TV IF Filter without Adjustment for Impedance Matching
- Juri Yamada, Yuuji Fujita, Takashi Shiba, Tatsuro Toyama

SAW Nyquist Filters for Digital Radio
- M. Suthers, T. Cameron, P. Kennard, J. McNicol

Differentially Detected Channelized Resonator Filter
- H. P. Fredricksen and L. P. Solie

1500 MHz Coupled Resonator Filter
- M. B. King, L. W. Heep, J. C. Andle

SAW Notch Filters
- C. S. Hartmann, J. C. Andle, M. B. King

A Study of the Effects of Apodized Structure Geometries on SAW Filter Parameters
- A. J. Vigil, B. P. Abbott, and D. C. Malocha

Diffraction Analysis with Extended Angular Spectrum of Waves Formalism
- G. Visintini, W. Till, E. Ehrmann-Falkenau

Interdigital Transducer Interaction with SAWS and BAWS
- K. C. Wagner, G. Kovacs, A. R. Baghai-Wadji, F. Seifert

Reduced Insertion-Loss Broadband SAW Delay Lines
- W. R. Shreve, R. L. Baer

Improved Accuracy for Determining SAW Transducer Capacitance and K2
- C. S. Aartmann, Shen Jen, M. A. Domalewski, J. C. Andle

Improved Design of Single-Phase Unidirectional Transducers for Low-Loss SAW Filters
- C. B. Saw, C. K. Campbell

GHz-Range Wide Band SAW Unidirectional Low Loss Filters with Large Reflection Coefficients
- K. Yamanouchi, T. Meguro and Z. H. Chen

A Simple Three Transducer Low-Loss SAW Filter Structure
- R. C. Peach, F. S. McClemont

GHz SAW and STW Bandpass Filters Without Submicron Geometries Using Harmonic Group Type Unidirectional Transducers
- R. Hugli

A Novel Group-Type SPUDT
- J. C. Andle and M. B. King

Sputtering Dose Control of Ion Mill Processing
- Curt Raschke, Patrick Wilde, and Cynthia Hill

Manufacture and Test of Reflective Array Compressors with Chirp Slope Adjustment
- Carl M. Panasik, Jeffrey J. Darland, Dale E. Zimmerman

Laser Direct Write Compensation of Reflective Array Compressors
- V. S. Dolat, J. H. C. Sedlacek, and D. J. Ehrlich

Iterative Synthesis of Optimized Surface Acoustic Wave Chirp Waveform Conpression Filter Impulse Response
- Mitch Haspel

Magnetostatic Wave Chirp Resonator and Tunable Integrated Oscillator
- Y. Kinoshita, A. Nakagoshi, S. Takeda, S. Kubota

Theory of MSSW Convolution
- J. P. Parekh, H. S. Tuan, A. Desai

A New Equivalent Circuit Approach to Magnetostatic Wave Devices
- Takuro Koike

Dispersion Control of Magnetostatic Waves Using Layered Structure
- N. B. Chakrabarti, T. S. Rao, T. V. K. Rao, B. C. Roy, D. Bhattacharya

Ferroelectric Microdomains in Lithium Niobate
- L. L. Pendergrass

Temperature Characteristics of Rayleigh Wave in SiO2/128o Y-X LiNbO3 Structure
- J. H. Yin, W. Q. Wu, D. Zhang, Y. A. Shui

Acoustic Modes in Lithium Tetraborate
- Waguih S. Lshak, Curt A. Flory,  and Bert A. Auld

A 45o X Cut Li2B4O7 Single Crystal Substrate for SAW Resonators
- S. Matsumura, T. Omi, N. Yamaji and Y. Ebata

A New Cut of LiTaO3 with Zero Slope Temperature by a Leaky Surface Wave
- Yasutaka Shimizu, Yousuke Endo, Takaya Watanabe

Zero Slope Temperature SiO2/LiTaO3 Structure Substrate for Stoneley Waves
- Toshio Irino, Takaya Watanabe, Yasutaka Shimizu

Electromechanical Coupling to Lamb and SH Modes in Piezoelectric Plates
- Eric L. Adler

Scattering Properties of Obliquely Incident Surface Acoustic Waves Between Plated and Unplated Substrates with General Anisotropy
- Akira Yamada, Hiroshi Shimizu

Propagation of Surface Acoustic Waves Generated by Slanted Transducers: A Laser Probe Study
- Shen Jen, C. S. Hartmann, M. A. Domalewski

New SAW Velocity Measurements on Y-Cut LiNbO3
- M. Anhorn, H. E. Engan, and A. Ronnekleiv

Temperature and Stress Sensitivities of Surface Acoustic Waves Quartz Cuts
- E. Bigler, R. Coquerel, D. Hauden

Thin Film Induced Effects on SAW Devices
- Bikash K. Sinha, and Stanley Locke

Elastic Constants of Sputtered ZnO Films
- G. Carlotti, G. Socino, A. Petri, E. Verona

Focusing Surface Waves Using Conical Transducers
- Sevig Ayter

Temperature Compensation of Surface Transverse Waves for Stable Oscillator Applications
- B. A. Auld, D. F. Thompson

Surface Transverse Wave Mode Analysis and Coupling to Interdigital Transducers
- C. A. Flory, R. L. Baer

Novel Surface Transverse Wave Resonators with Low Loss and High Q
- Tim L. Bagwell, Robert C. Bray

Anisotropy in Surface Transverse Wave Resonators
- Arne Ronnekleiv

Phase Noise of Bulk-Acoustic-Wave Reflection-Grating Resonators
- D. E. Oates, J. Y. Pan

Properties of Tunable Yig Hbars
- H. L. Salvo, Jr. , R. A. Moore, J. D. Adam, B. R. McAvoy

Coupled and Energy Trapped Thickness Vibrations in Piezoelectric Crystal Plates
- P. C. Y. Lee, X. Guo and M. S. H. Tang

Measurement of Flicker Noise in High-Q, Lithium Tantalate, Bulk Wave Resonators
- M. M. Driscoll, C. R. Vale, R. W. Weinert

On the Use of 1-D Finite Elements for the Temperature Behavior of a Contoured and Partially Plated SC-Cut Resonator
- Y. K Yong

Diffraction Computations in High Overtone Bulk Acoustic Resonators
- D. S. Bailey, J. B. Goodell

A 400MHz One-Chip Oscillator Using an Air-Gap Type Thin Film Resonator
- Hiroaki Satoh, Hitoshi Suzuki, Chikau Takahashi, Chouji Narahara, Yasuo Ebata

Design and Performance of Oscillators Using Semiconductor Delay Lines
- S.G. Burns, G. R. Kline, K.M. Lakin

Low Insertion Loss Filters Synthesized with Thin Film Resonators
- G. R. Kline, R. S. Ketcham, K. M. Lakin

Quantitative Effects of Substrate Tilt, Curvature and Deposition Position on Orientation in ZnO Films
- D. Howell, L. Goddard, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub

Advances in Structure and Fabrication Process for Thin Film Acoustic Resonator
- Yoichi Miyasaka, Shigeki Hoshino and Sadayuki Takahashi

Clarification of Mechanism of Elastic Waves Using Graphic Representations
- K. Harumi, H. Okada, A. Ootsuki, M. Uchida

High Performance Wide Band Bragg Cells Employing Beamsteering Transducers
- H. Skeie, G. Elston

A Modified Version of the Phase Sensitive Technique for Measurements of Absolute Sound Velocity in Solids
- J. Toulouse

Electromagnetic Induction Acoustics
- D. J. Mayton, and William P. Winfree

New Air Gap Type Piezoelectric Composite Thin Film Resonators
- K. Yamanouchi, M. Oba

BAW and SAW Devices on Berlinite with Low Water Content
- Janpu Hou, Bruce H. T. Chai

Crystalline Structure Dependence of Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameters
- John H. Cantrell

The Second Harmonics Generation of Bulk Acoustic Wave Reflection
- Y. Shui, Y. Mao, W. Jiang, W. Wu, and I. Yu. Solodov

Analysis and Design of Acoustic Fiber Coupler
- A. Safaai-Jazi

Propagation of Acoustic Waves in a Copper Wire Embedded in a Curing Epoxy
- Keun Jenn Sun, and William P. Winfree

Acoustic Fibers
- C. K. Jen

3-D Reflection/Transmission Coefficients from Cylindrical Layered Elastic Media
- Hung- Wen Chang

Reorientation and Layering of Fibers in Stationary Ultrasonic Waves
- Pierre Brodeur, Jean-Luc Dion, and Phieu Le-Huy

An Integrated Optic Digital Correlator Module Using Both Acoustooptic and Electrooptic Bragg Diffractions in LiNbO3
- P. Le, D. Y. Zang, G. D. Xu, and C. S. Tsai

Integrated Optical Signal Processors Consisting of Collinear Acousto-Optic Switches
- Yasumitsu Miyazaki, Nobuo Goto

Acousto-Optic Techniques for Information Processing Systems
- John N. Lee

The Effect of Acoustic Diffraction and Attenuation on the Dynamic Range of Acousto-Optic Bragg Cells
- A. J. Hoffman and E. Van Rooyen

AO Phase Modulator for Single-Mode Fibers Using Cylindrical ZnO Transducers
- D. S. Czaplak, J. F. Weller, L. Goldberg F. S. Hickernell, H. D. Knuth, and S. R. Young

Optimization of Acousto-Electro-Optic Signal Processing in Anisotropic Media
- R. A. Davidson, C. DeCusatis and P. K. Das

3 GHz Bandwidth Bragg Cells
- J. C. Poncot, P. Nyeki, Ph. Defranould, J. P. Huignard

An Analytical Method for Designing Acousto-Optical Tunable Filters
- Jose E. B. Oliveira, and E. L. Adler

Acousto-Optic Properties of Chalcogenide Compounds
- I. C. Chang and P. Katzka

Schlieren Imaging of Sound Fields
- A. Korpel, D. Mehrl,  and H. H. Lin

Acousto-Optic Interaction Efficiency in Ti:LiNbO3 Waveguide
- F. Palma, L. Schirone, E. Verona

Acoustic Wave-Induced Modal Coupling in Low Mode Optical Fibers
- A. Flax, K. A. Murphy, R. E. Rogers, and R. O. Claus

Low-Loss ZnO Optical Waveguides for SAW-A0 Applications
- Mu-Shiang Wu, Atsushi Azuma, Tadashi Shiosaki,  and Akira Kawabata

Microscopic Fluctuations in Air Bearings Measured by Novel Piezoelectric Sensors
- C. E. Yeack-Scranton

Equivalent Circuits of a Piezoelectric Vibratory Gyro
- S. Sugawara and M. Konno

Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Transducer for NDE
- M. Deka

Ultrasonic Robotic Sensor with Lateral Resolution
- J. Loschberger, V. Magori

Controlling a Robot with Sonic and Ultrasonic Means
- Michael K. Brown

Measuring Thin Film Properties Using SAW Devices: Diffusivity and Surface Area
- S. J. Martin, G. C. Frye, A. J. Ricco, and T. E. Zipperian

A Guided Acoustic Wave Liquid Level Sensor
- E. Dieulesaint, D. Royer, O. Legras, F. Boubenider

Mass Sensitivity of Plate Modes in Surface Acoustic Wave Devices and their Potential as Chemical Sensors
- Janpu Hou and Herman van de Vaart

New Sensor in Liquid Using Leaky SAW
- T. Moriizumi, Y. Unno, and S. Shiokawa

SAW Temperature Sensor and Remote Reading System
- X. Q. Bao, W. Burkhard, V. V. Varadan and V. K. Varadan

The Dynamic Poisson's Ratio of a Ceramic Powder During Compaction
- Martin P. Jones, Gerald V. Blessing

Evaluation of Machined Ceramic Surfaces by Using Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy
- K. Yamanaka, M. Haraguchi, and Y. Tsuya

Ion Implantation Characterisation: A Comparison of Photothermal Radiometric and Photodisplacement Thermal Wave Techniques
- G. M. Crean, S. J. Sheard, C. W. See and M. G. Somekh

Monitoring Thin-Film Etching Using Surface Acoustic Waves
- S. G. Joshi

Toolbit Mounted Thin Film Zinc Oxide Sensors for Process Control in Lathe and Milling Machine Applications
- Brian Bischoff, S. Ramalingam, and William P. Robbins

Ultrasonic-Oscillator Position Sensor
- S. W. Wenzel, E. R. Minami, J. S. Huang, and R. M. White

Ultrasonic Wire Bonding Using a Complex Vibration Welding Tip
- Jiromara Tsujino

Gasflow and Energy Measurement Using Coherently Modulated Ultrasound
- Robert J. Redding

Remote Measurement Method of Acoustic Velocity in Liquids by a Pair of Leaky Acoustic Waveguides
- R. Motegi, S. Takeuchi, T. Sato, N. Chubachi, M. Takeuchi

Acoustic Fiber Waveguide Coupler
- Amy L. Matthews, Kent A. Murphy, Robin E. Rogers and Richard O. Claus

NH3 Surface Acoustic Wave Gas Detector
- A. D'Amico, A. Petri, P. Verardi, E. Verona

Electrostatic Voltage Sensor Using SAW Oscillator with Waveguide
- M. Ishido and X. Zhu

A Monolithic SAW Physical-Electronic System for Sensors
- M.J. Vellekoop, E. Nieuwkoop, J.C. Haartsan, A. Venema

Fired 0-3 Piezoelectric Composite Materials for Biomedical Ultrasonic Imaging Applications
- C. Madhavan, T.R. Gururaja, T.T. Srinivasan, Q.C. Xu, R.E. Newnam

Effect of Ceramic Anisotropy on the Properties of Ceramic/Polymer Piezoelectric Composites
- Helen L. W. Chan, Joe Unsworth, Tuan Bui

Finite Element Method Analysis of Dispersion Characteristics for 1-3 Type Piezoelectric Composites
- M. Yamaguchi, K. Y. Hashimoto, and H. Makita

Measurement of Complex Coefficients for Thick PVDF Polymer
- Q. C. Xu, A. R. Ramachandran, R. E. Newnham, R. H. Tancrell

Spinned P(VDF-TrFE) Copolymer Layer for a Silicon-Piezoelectric Integrated US Transducer
- A. Fiorillo, P. Dario, J. Van der Spiegel, C. Domenici, and J. Foo

The Deformation of Hysteresis Curves by an Internal Bias in Ferroelectric Ceramics
- H. Neumann, G. Arlt

The Design and Performance of PVDF Transducers
- M. R. Smith, and A. K. Dunhill

Generation of Focused Surface Waves with a Solid Wedge
- Abdullah Atalar and Hayrettin Koymen

Thick Conical Piezoelectric Transducers for NDE
- D. A. Hutchins, S. B. Palmer, L. F. Bresse, and H. D. Mair

Characterization of a Piezoelectric Transducer Coupled to a Solid
- N. N. Hsu, G. Chen, and M. Sansalone

Liquid-Membrane Coupling Response of a Submersible Electrostatic Transducer
- William T. Yost, John H. Cantrell

A Staircase Model of Tapered Piezoelectric Transducers
- P. G. Barthe, and P. J. Benkeser

Finite Element Modelling of Piezoelectric Ceramic Disks
- S. Locke, H. A. Kunkel, B. Pikeroen

A New Ultrasonic Transducer to Decrease the Multi-Reflections Which Cause Artifacts on B-Mode Imaging
- F. Namiki, A. Iida, T. Shimura

An Intuitive Multilayered Transducer Model with Losses Based on Transmission Line Theory
- Jean-Luc Dion

Multilayer ZnO Acoustic Transducers at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies
- B. Hadimioglu, L. J. La Comb, Jr. , L. C. Goddard, B. T. Khuri-Yakub, C. F. Quate

Design of Piezoelectric Polymer Transducers for Time Delay Spectrometry Applications
- Peter A. Lewin, Mark E. Schafer

Practical Forms of the Reciprocity Relations for Ultrasonic Transducers
- Fred E. Stanke, C. J. Randall

Computation of the Impulse Field Radiated from a Transducer of Arbitrary Geometry - Introduction of the Secondary Diffraction
- Daniel Guyomar, Didier Cassereau

The Parametric Array Source and Application of Signal Processing
- J. Dybedal, A. Lovik, O. Malmo

Influence of an External Electric Field on the Electroacoustic Properties of PZT-4
- R. Lec, and J. F. Vetelino

Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motor
- R. Inaba, A. Tokushima, O. Kawasaki, Y. Ise, H. Yoneno

Dielectric Properties and Aging of Modified Lead Titanate Ceramics
- B. K. Mukherjee, H. D. Wiederick, N. Maffei, E. S. Prasad

Small Area Membrane Hydrophones
- H. R. Gallantree, R. A. Smith

Low-Frequency Flextensional Piezoelectric Transmitter with Displacement Amplifier
- T. Inoue, T. Nada, T. Miyama, K. Sugiuchi, S. Takahashi

A Study of Diffraction Effects of Planar Transducers Using a Numerical Expression for Edge Waves
- H. D. Mair, L. F. Bresse, and D. A. Hutchins

Statistical Properties of the Field Radiated from Randomly Distributed Sources
- Daniel Guyomar, Didier Cassereau

Investigation for Tonpilz Piezoelectric Transducers with Acoustic Matching Plates
- T. Miyama, T. Nada, T. Inoue, S. Takahashi, M. Konno

Measurement of Surface Acoustic Wave Velocity Anisotropy with a Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscope
- William P. Robbins, Eric P. Rudd

Increasing the Sensitivity of the Scanning Acoustic Microscope to Anisotropy
- Abdullah Atalar

Effect of Higher Modes of a Layered Substrate on V(Z) in Acoustic Microscopy
- K. H. Chan, H. L. Bertoni, D. A. Davids

Characterization of Nonlinear Harmonic Generation at the Focus of an Acoustic Microscope
- L. Germain, and J. D. N. Cheeke

Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy Using Amplitude and Phase Imaging
- P. A. Reinholdtsen, C-H. Chou, B. T. Khuri-Yakub

Acoustic Microscopy with Shear Wave Transducers
- C-H. Chou, B. T. Khuri-Yakub, K. K. Liang

Determination of Elastic Constants by LFB Acoustic Microscope
- J. Kushibiki, T. Ueda, N. Chubachi

A Study of Layer Adhesion by Acoustic Microscopy
- R. D. Weglein, and A. K. Mal

Characterization of Porosity in Graphite/Epoxy Composite Laminates with Polar Backscatter and Frequency Dependent Attenuation
- S. M. Handley, M. S. Hughes, J. G. Miller, and E. I. Madaras

Leaky Rayleigh Waves on Surfaces with Laminated Microstructure
- Nisar Shaikh, Dale E. Chimenti, Adnan H. Nayfeh

Application of Acoustic Microscopy to Dental Material Characterization
- J. Kushibiki, K. L. Ha, H. Kato, N. Chubachi, and F. Dunn

The Influence of Thin Film Microstructure on Surface Acoustic Wave Velocity
- G. M. Crean, M. G. Somekh, A. Golanski, and J. C. Oberlin

Increasing of the Grating Lobe Effect in Multiscatterers Medium
- P. Pesque, C. Blanc

Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Piezoelectric Media
- R. Lerch, H. Kaarmann

Development of a Divided Ring Array for Three-Dimensional Beam Steering in Ultrasonic Nondestructive Testing
- H-.P. Schwarz

Ultrasound Phased Arrays for Hyperthermia: New Techniques Based on the Field Conjugation Method
- Mohammed Ibbini, Emad Ebbini, Shin-Ichiro Umemura, Charles A. Cain

Evaluation of a Prototype Sector-Vortex Array Applicator
- Shin-ichira Umemura, and Charles A. Cain

Induction of Hyperthermia Using an Intracavitary Ultrasonic Applicator
- C. J. Diederich, K. Hynynen

40 MHz Ultrasound Diagnostic System for Dermatologic Examination
- T. Yano, H. Fukukita, S. Ueno, and A. Fukumoto

Chirped PVDF Transducers for Medical Ultrasound Imaging
- George K. Lewis

A Double Frequency Doppler Technique for Bubble Size Measurement
- J. Y. Chapelon, D. Cathignol, V. L. Newhouse, P. M. Shankar

Full Range Pseudorandom Doppler Flowmeter Using Serial Processing
- D. Cathignol, Z. Trawinski, J. Y. Chapelon

A Method of Demodulating Frequency Shift for Pulsed Ultrasonic Doppler Blood Flow Imaging
- Hua-Guang Kang, Jian-Nong Zhang, Shou-Bin Zou

Constrained Reconstruction of Object Acoustic Parameters from Noisy Ultrasound Scattering Data
- Y. Zhou, S. A. Johnson, M. J. Berggrenl, B. L. Carruth, and W. W. Kim

Accelerated Inverse Scattering Algorithms for Higher Contrast Objects
- W. W. Kim, D. T. Borup, S. A. Johnson, M. J. Berggren, and Y. Zhou

Convergence and Speed of the Sinc Basis Moment Method
- T. J. Cavicchi, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr.

Application of Variational Principle to Sound Propogation in Inhomogeneous Medium
- W. S. Gan

Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization for Breast Biopsy Specimens
- P. D. Edmonds, and C. L. Mortensen

In Vivo Sound Velocity in Reflection
- T. Ogawa, S. Umemura, K. Katakura, H. Ikeda, M. Kodama, H. Hayashi

In-Vivo Ultrasound Tissue Differentiation Through the Acoustic Attenuation Coefflcient
- N. Bothos, Ph. D W. K. Chu, Ph. D. J. Y. Cheung, Ph. D.

Relations Between the Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameter and Sound Speed and Tissue Composition
- Dong Yanwu, Tong Jie, and Sun Yongchen

Degradation of Image Quality by Sound Velocity Fluctuations and Its Dependence on the Aperture Size
- D. Hassler, W. Harer, G. Temme, E. Schmidt, P. Wegener, P. Krammer

Measurement of Spatial Time-Of-Flight Fluctuations of Ultrasound Pulses Passing Through Inhomogeneous Layers
- P. Krammer, D. Hassler

Propagation Through Inhomogeneous Media Using the Angular Spectrum Method
- Mark E. Schafer, Peter A. Lewin, and John M. Reid

The Effect of Background Velocity Variation on the Point-Spread Function of Ultrasonic Transducer Arrays
- R. Martin Arthur, and Steven R. Broadstone

Attenuation Estimation and Speckle Reduction with Random Phase Transducers
- M. Fink, F. Cancre, C. Soufflet, D. Beudon

Measurement of Local Speckle Pattern Displacement to Track Blood Flow in Two Dimensions
- Gregg E. Trahey, John W. Allison, Sylvia M. Hubbard, Olaf T. von Ramm

An Approach to Identification of Doppler Waveforms Through Real Time Pattern Recognition Techniques
- Mark A. Moehring, Richard F. Ferraro, John R. Klepper

A Review of Doppler Flow Mapping Techniques
- P. A. Magnin

Molecular Absorption of Ultrasound in Biological Materials
- Frederick W. Kremkau, Ph. D.

200 MHz Ultrasonic Relaxation Peak in the Enzyme Alpha-Amylase
- J. W. Dooley, and S. L. Turchi

Ultrasound Attenuation of Glycogen: In Vitro and In Vivo Results
- K. J. Parker, T. A. Tuthill, R. B. Baggs

Is Acoustic Cavitation Produced by Diagnostic Ultrasound Devices?
- Lawrence A. Crum

Ultrasonic and Focused Shock-Wave Lithotrites: A Revolution in Treatment of Bladder-, Kidney-, and Ureter-Stones
- G. Flachenecker

Acoustical Nonlinear Parameter and Sound Speed Characteristics of Human Fat Tissues
- R. L. Errabolu, C. M. Sehgal, R. C. Bahn, J. F. Greenleaf

Spectral Evaluation of Ultrasonic Grain Signals
- Jafar Saniie, Tao Wang and Nihat M. Bilgutay

Scatterer Volume Density Estimation with Split Spectrum Processing
- V.L. Newhouse, Guo Yao Yu, and Yue Li

On-Line Deconvolution for the High Resolution Ultrasonic Pulse-Echo Measurement with Narrow-Band Transducer
- Akira Yamada

Robust Deconvolution of Correlation Functions
- J. P. Steiner, E. S. Furgason, and W. L. Weeks

Non-Contact Ultrasonic Tomography of Metal Cylinders
- D. A. Hutchins, R. P. Young, R. Stonert, D. Jansen, J. K. Hu, and Q. L. Zhang

Nearly Local Kramers-Kronig Relations Applied to Porous Epoxy
- M. S. Hughes, S. M. Handley, J. G. Miller

Detection of Bondline Delaminations in Multilayer Structures with Lossy Components
- Eric I. Madaras, William P. Winfree, B. T. Smith, and Joseph H. Heyman

Digital Signal Processing Methods for Ultrasonic Backscattered Waves in Highly Heterogeneous Media
- C. Delebarre, J.M. Rouvaen, J. Frohley, C. Bruneel

Automatic Ultrasonic Image Analysis Method for Defect Detection
- G. Corneloup, B. Cornu, I. Magnin, M. Perdrix

Uniaxial Stress Dependence of Low-Field Magnetoacoustic Response in Carbon Steels
- N. Namkung, D. Utrata, W.T. Yost, P.W. Kushnick, J.L. Grainger

Numerical Experiments of Reflections of Transverse Waves by Surface Steps and Cracks (Part II)
- K. Harumi, M. Uchida, H. Okada, S. Sasaki

Removal of Dominant Reverberations from Ultrasonic Time-Records of Layered Material by Digital Predictive Deconvolution
- Doron Kishoni

Ultrasonic Characterization of Residual Stress and Flaws in Cast Steel Railroad Wheels
- A. V. Clark, R. E. Schramm, H. Fukuoka, D. V. Mitrakovic

Attenuation of Reflected and Transmitted Ultrasonic Waves Through a Rough Interface
- P. B. Nagy, L. Adler

NDE of Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Field Joint
- Patrick H. Johnston

A Quantitative Evaluation of Ultrasonic Wave in Solid by the Photoelastic Visualization Method
- K. Date, Y. Tabata, H. Shjmada

Laser Induced Underwater Sound
- Bruce S. Maccabee

Synthesis of an Ultrasonic Array Using Laser-Based Techniques
- R. C. Addison Jr. , L. J. Graham, R. S. Linebarger, B. R. Tittmann

Application of Acoustic Emission to Automatic Focus Adjustment Laser Marking, Flaw Detection and Etching Monitoring of Ceramics
- T. Shiosaki, H. Masuda, M. Adachi, and A. Kawabata

Laser-Induced Acoustic Shock Waves
- B. R. Tittmann, L. J. Graham, R. Linebarger

Ultrasonic Characterization of Polymers as Function of Temperature, Pressure and Frequency
- L. Piche, F. Massines, G. Lessard, A. Hamel

Effect of Aging on the Third-Order Elastic Moduli of 18Ni Maraging Steel
- H. Yang, W. T. Yost, and J. H. Cantrell

Gaussian Beam Functions as a Base Function Set for Acoustical Field Calculations
- J. J. Wen, M. A. Breazeale

Accuracy of Acoustic Impedance Determination Using a Focused Beam
- Kenneth K. Liang

Absolute Displacement Measurements with Piezoeleciric Transducers
- Meng-Chou Wu, and William P. Winfree

Ultrasonic Attenuation Measurement in High TC Superconductors and Heavy Fermion Superconductors
- M. Levy, M. -F. Xu, H. -P. Baum, A. Schenstrom, Y. J. Qian, K. J. Sun, and Bimal K. Sarma

Poisson's Ratio Dependence of Electron Phonon SAW Attenuation
- Susan C. Schneider, Moises Levy

Acoustic Propagation in Periodic Layers
- G. W. Farnell

SAW Velocity of Nb/Cu Superlattices Measured by Ultrasonic Technique
- S. Y. Zhang, A. Hu, Q. Shen, X. Y. Yuan, Z. N. Lu, and D. Feng

Thickness Measurement of Thin Films Using an Improved Laser Probe
- K. H. Yang, S. Y. Zhang, Z. N. Lu, and L. Chen

Surface Absorption Studies Using Pulsed Photothermal Deformation
- F. Alan McDonald, R. W. Dreyfus, R. J. von Gutfeld

Nondestructive Observation of Microdefects in In-Doped-GaAs by Photo-Thermal-Radiation Microscope
- N. Mikoshiba, K. Tsubouchi and Y. Akutsu

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