1998 Ultrasonics Symposium

Front Matter

Table of Contents

A Design of Antenna Duplexer Using Ladder Type SAW Filters
- O. Ikata, T. Nishihara, Y. Satoh, H. Fukushima, and N. Hirasawa

High Power SAW Filter with New Al -Sc-Cu/Ti/Al-Sc-Cu/Ti Electrodes
- R. Takayama, M. Furukawa, Y. Murashima, T. Sakuragawa, N. Yuda and K. Nomura

A Study of SAW Antenna Duplexer for Mobile Application
- H. Fukushima, N. Hirasawa, M. Ueda, H. Ohmori, O. Ikata and Y. Satoh

SAW Antenna Duplexer Module Using Saw-Resonator-Coupled Filter for PCN System
- Nobuhiko Shibagaki, Kazuyuki Sakiyama, Mitsutaka Hikita

SAW Duplexer Metallizations for High Power Durability
- Y. Satoh, T. Nishihara, O. Ikata, M. Ueda, and H. Ohomori

Tapered Transducers - Design and Applications
- Leland Solie

Waveguide Coupling of SAW Resonators with Different Propertles
- G. Martin and B. Wall

Small-Sized 71MHz GSM-If Filter Using SAW Resonator on Li2B4O7 Substrate
- S. Ichikawa, Y. Ebata, M. Koshino and N. Mishima

Modified Structures of RSPUDT
- Xue Ding Wang and De Zhang

Wide Bandwidth Low Cost SAW Notch Filters
- P. A. Lorenz and D. F. Thompson

Generation, Propagation, and Attenuation of 10GHz-Range SAW in LiNbO3
- K. Yamanouchi

High Efficiency SAW Transducers with Low Internal Reflections and Their Application in High Performance Broadband SAW Filters
- Stig Rooth, Sigmund Bardal and Oystein Dugstad

Significantly Enhanced SAW Transmission in Voltage Tunable GaAs/LiNbO3 Hybrid Devices
- Markus Rotter, Werner Ruile, Daniela Bernklau, Henning Riechert, and Achim Wixforth

2.4GHz Front-End Multi-Track AIN/α-Al2O3 SAW Matched Filter
- S. Tomabechi, S. Kameda, K. Masu and K. Tsubouchi

Balanced-Type IF SAW Filters with Different Input/Output Impedances
- Tom Yamada, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kazunori Nishimura, Toshio Ishizaki and Koichi Ogawa

Two-Port SAW Resonator Using Series Connected IDTS
- Toshihiro Kojima and Hiroyuki Obara

Small SAW Filters Using Optimized High-Reflection-Coefficient Reflectors
- N. Tanaka, Y. Hirao, Y. Kobayashi, H. Okano, T. Usuki, K. Shibata, K. Niki, F. Kameoka and M. Ikeda

SAW Synthesized Resonator Filters with Two Composite Longitudinal Mode 2-Port Resonators
- Yasushi Yamamoto, Ryuji Kajihara and Susumu Yoshimoto

Improvement of Ladder-Type SAW Filter Characteristics by Reduction of Inter-Stage Mismatching Loss
- Ou Hok Huor, Naoto Inose and Nobuyoshi Sakamoto

10 GHz Range Extremely Low-Loss Ladder Type Surface Acoustic Wave Filter
- Hiroyuki Odagawa and Kazuhiko Yamanouchi

Novel Optoelectronic Signal Processing Via the Combination of SAW and Semiconductor Heterostructures
- M. Streibl, C. Rocke, A. O. Govorov and A. Wixforth

Grating-Mode-Type Wide-Band SAW Resonators for VCOs
- A. Isobe, M. Hikita, K. Asai and A. Sumioka

The Effects of Stripline Geometries for Phase Shifting on SAW Antenna Duplexer
- Hyung Kook Yang, Hyun Min Cho, and Jong Chul Park

Miniature SAW Duplexers with High Power Capability
- N. Kamogawa, S. Dokai, N. Shibagaki, M. Hikita, T. Shiba, S. Ogawa, S. Wakamori, K. Sakiyama, T. Ide and N. Hosaka

A Wideband Electronically Tunable Magnetostatic Wave Notch Filter in YIG-GaAs Waveguide Structure
- Chen S. Tsai and Jun Su

Phase Velocity Measurement of In-Plane Polarized Surface Acoustic Waves with High Spatial Resolution
- G. Behme, T. Hesjedal, E. Chilla, and H. -J. Frohlich

Ghost Surface Transverse Waves in Periodic Structures
- Victor P. Plessky, Julius Koskela, and Martti M. Salomaa

Analytic Model for STW/BGW/LSAW Resonators
- Julius Koskela, Victor P. Plessky, and Martti M. Salomaa

Surface Transverse Waves on Langasite
- Victor P. Plessky, Julius Koskela, Saku Lehtonen, and Martti M. Salomaa

Types of Leaky SAW Degeneracy in Crystals
- V. G. Mozhaev, F. Bosia, M. Weihnacht

Leaky Wave Propagation in Layered Structures
- N. F. Naumenko, I. S. Didenko

Investigation of Leaky Surface Acoustic Waves on Quartz Substrates in the Range of Euler Angle (0°, 124°, γ)*
- Xiaojun Tong and De Zhang

Beneficial Effect of Diffraction on the Frequency Response of a 250-MHz SAW Mobile IF Resonator-Filter with Long IDTS and Triple Longitudinal Modes on Quartz
- C. K. Campbell

Synthesizing and Optimizing SPUDT SAW Filters
- G. Martin, F. Z. Bi, D. P. Chen and C. S. Lam

Obtaining the Fundamental and Harmonic Radiation Conductances of a Reflective SAW Lnterdigital Transducer
- C. K. Campbell

Numerical Methods for SAW Propagation Characterization
- P. Ventura, J. M. Hode, M. Solal, J. Desbois, J. Ribbe

Approximate Expressions for Generalized Green's Functions
- D. Qiao and P. M. Smith

Polynomial Expression for SAW Reflection by Aluminium Gratings on 128°YX-LiNbO3
- Koji Ibata, Tatsuya Omori, Ken-ya Hashimoto, and Masatsune Yamaguchi

Grazing-Angle Scattering of Surface Acoustic Waves in Periodic Groove Arrays
- D. K. Gramotnev

New Piezoelectric KNbO3 Films for SAW Device Applications
- Kazuhiko Yamanouchi, Hiroyuki Odagawa, Toshiyuki Kojima and Yasuo Cho

Preparation of Piezoelectric ZnO Films by Target Facing Type of Sputtering Method
- Ken-Ya Hashimoto, Shotaro Ogawa, Akinori Nonoguchi, Tatsuya Omori and Masatsune Yamaguchi

Effect of the Sputtering Parameters on the Growth and Piezoelectric Properties of Zinc Oxide Thin Films
- V. P. Kutepova and D. A. Hall

New Results on Surface Transverse Wave Resonators Built with Different Combinaisons of Groove and Strip Gratings
- S. Ballandras, E. Bigler, W. Daniau, J. Py, A. Pakfar, G. Marianneau, G. Martin

IDT Geometry and Crystal Cut Effects on the Frequency-Temperature Curves of a SAW Periodic Structure of Quartz.
- Yook-Kong Yong and Shigeo Kanna

SAW Transversely Guided Mode Spurious Elimination by Optimization of Conversion Efficiency Using W/WO Electrode Structure
- Yasushi Yamamoto and Susumu Yoshimoto

High Resolution Laser-Interferometric Probing of SAW Devices
- Jouni Knuuttila, Pasi Tikka, Thor Thorvaldsson, Ken-ya Hashimoto, and Martti M. Salomaa

Automatic Computer-Aided Design of Slanted Finger SAW Filters Using a Building-Block Method
- Hiromi Yatsuda and Kazuhiko Yamanouchi

CAD Approach for the Simulation of the Characteristics of the SAW Devices with Complex Topology
- Sergei M. Balashov, Clovis Magi Cabreira, Celio Finardi

Numerical Investigation of Guiding of PSAW on Quartz
- Arne Ronnekleiv

Modeling SAW Chirp Fourier Transformers with Differential Equations
- S. Lone and P. M. Smith

A Numerical Method for Stress Analysis in a SAW Resonator
- Yasuo Ebata and Seiichi Mitobe

The Effect of Mass-Loading on Velocity Dispersion and Coupling of STW
- K. D. Djordjev and V. L. Strashilov

High Resolution Acoustic Field Imaging Applied to Surface Acoustic Wave Devices
- G. Behme, M. Blocker, E. Bigler, T. Hesjedal, and H. -J. Frohlich

Generation of Leaky Rayleigh Waves Using a Conical Phased-Array Transducer: Modeling Time Domain Signals Reflected on Anisotropic Materials
- D. Frenet, P. Calmon, M. Ouaftouh

Characterization of the SAW Propagation Properties for Zinc Oxide Films on Silicon Carbide
- Fred S. Hickernell

Determination of Phase Velocity and Attenuation of Surface Acoustic Waves with Improved Accuracy
- R. Thomas, T. W. Johannes, W. Ruile, R. Weigel

Investigation on Recent Quartz Like Materials for SAW Applications
- Mauricio Pereira da Cunha and Saulo de A. Fagundes

Quantitative Study on the Nonlinear Piezoelectric Effect of KNbO3 Single Crystal for Super Highly Efficient SAW Elastic Convolver
- Y. Cho, N. Oota, K. Morozumi, H. Odagawa and K. Yamanouchi

Theoretical Investigation of Rayleigh Waves on a La3Ga5SiO14 Substrate
- Masao Murota and Yasutaka Shimizu

SAW Reflection Characteristics and NSPUDT Orientations on Langasite
- M. Takeuchi, M. Tanaka and Y. Imanishi

Temperature Stability of SAW on Langasite Single Crystals
- Kenji Inoue and Katsuo Sato

SAW, PSEUDOSAW, and HVPSEUDOSAW in Langasite
- Eric L. Adler

Surface Acoustic Wave Properties on Various Rotated Y-cut Langasite Crystal Substrates Grown by Czockralski Method
- Michio Kadota, Jun Nakanishi, Takeshi Kitamura, and Makoto Kumatoriya

High Power-Durable and Low Loss Single-Crystalline Al/Ti Electrodes for RF SAW Devices
- Noritoshi Kimura, Masahiro Nakano and Katsuo Sato

Diamond SAW Filter for 2.488 Gbps Retiming
- H. Nakahata, H. Kitabayashi, A. Hachigo, K. Higaki, S. Fujii, T. Uemura and S. Shikata

Development of ZnO Thin Films for SAW Devices by the Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis Technique
- Hagbong Kim, Youngjin Lee, Yongrae Roh, Jinyoung Jung, Manhyeong Lee, and Hyukchae Kwon

ELO Bonding of GaAs Devices on Diamond Film SAW Devices
- K. Koh, N. Takabatake, S. Noge, T. Kobayashi, T. Arai and K. Hohkawa

Suppression of Attenuation of Leaky Surface Acoustic Waves by Loading Dielectric Thin-Film
- Shoji Kakio, Kenji Hishinuma, and Yasuhiko Nakagawa

Temperature Stable SAW Devices Using Directly Bonded LiTaO3/Glass Substrates
- H. Sato, K. Onishi, T. Shimamura, and Y. Tomita

Evaluation of Acoustic Wave Velocities in Piezoelectric, Dielectric and Intrinsic Semiconductor Materials Using Thermal Wave Propagation
- T. Koike, H. Nakajima, K. Kobayashi and H. Obara

Influence of Surface Processing on Temperature Properties of Acoustic Wave
- X. R. Zhang, D. S. Wu, F. Zhang, C. M. Can and Z. N. Lu

Wirelessly Interrogable Sensors for Different Purposes in Industrial Radio Channels
- Alfred Pohl, Reinhard Steindl, Leonhard Reindl, Franz Seifert

SAW Delay Lines for Wirelessly Requestable Conventional Sensors
- R. Steindl, A. Pohl, L. Reindl, F. Seifert

A Wireless AQP Pressure Sensor Using Chirped SAW Delay Lines Structures
- L. Reindl, C. C. W. Ruppel, K. Riek, T. Pankratz, and R. Weigel

Gated Chirps for Signal Processing and Communication Engineering
- Alfred Pohl, Martin Brandl, Reinhard Steindl, Leonhard Reindl, Franz Seifert

SAW Device Implementation of the Weighted Stepped Chirp Code Signal
- Scott E. Carter and Donald C. Malocha

SAW Impedance Element Filters Towards 5 GHz
- Saku Lehtonen, Victor P. Plessky, Marko Honkanen, Julius Koskela, Jari Turunen and Martti M. Salomaa

New SAW-Convolver Demodulation Techniques for Very-High-Speed CDMA Communications
- Mitsutaka Hikita, Chizaki Takubo, and Kengo Asai

A Demonstrator for a Low Cost Cordless Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum System
- Jorg Kuhne, Achim Nahler, Michael Hosemann, Gerhard P. Fettweis, Gunter Kovacs and Gerd Riha

Simulation of a SAW-Based Wlan Using Chirp - π/4 Dqpsk Modulation
- W. Gugler, A. Springer, H. P. Kupfer, R. Weigel

On-Chip Correlation - A New Approach to Narrow Band SAW Identification Tags
- W. Buff, J. Ehrenpfordt, St. Klett, M. Rusko and M. Goroll

Saw-Based Hybrid Transceivers in Slam Packaging with Frequency Range from 200 to 1000 MHz
- Darrell L. Ash

Low Loss and High Rejection RF SAW Filter Using Improved Design Techniques
- Yuji Fujita, Takashi Shiba, Seima Kondo, Naoki Matsuura, Mitsutaka Hikita and Seiichi Ogawa

High-Frequency and Narrow-Band STW Filters for Cellular Power Amplifiers
- Hiromi Yatsuda, Kazuhiko Yamanouchi, Hiroaki Iijima and Nobuhiro Mineshima

Effects of Intersymbol Interference on MSK-Type SAW Modulators
- S. M. Nabritt, P. Thomas, K. Gamble, M. A. Belkerdid, and D. C. Malocha

SAW Matched Filters for the Asynchronous Chip/Carrier S-S Wireless Systems
- N. Hosaka, T. Shiba, S. Ogawa, M. Moteki, H. Hamazumi, K. Shibuya and K. Oda

Guided Waves Propagating in a Piezoelectric Plate Immersed in a Conductive Fluid
- Che-Hua Yang and C. J. Shue

Characteristics of Quasi-Shear-Horizontal (QSH) Acoustic Waves in Thin Piezoelectric Plates
- B. D. Zaitsev, S. G. Joshi, and I. E. Kuznetsova

Reflection of Ultrasonic Lamb Waves Propagating in Thin Piezoelectric Plates
- B. D. Zaitsev and S. G. Joshi

New Expressions for Lamb's Problem in Solids of General Anisotropy
- C. -Y. Wang and J. D. Achenbach

Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Flexural Plate Wave Pumps
- N. T. Nguyen, R. W. Doering, A. Lal, R. M. White

Influence of Electrical Boundary Conditions on Lamb Wave Propagation in Piezoelectric Plates
- Zongqi Sun,yiwei Mao, Wenhua Jiang and De Zhang

Generation of Second-Order Cumulative Waves Accompanying Nonlinear SH Mode in a Solid Plate
- Deng Mingxi

Exact Closed-Form Expression for the Impedance of a Rectangular Strip and Second-Order Effects in Bleustein-Gulyaev Wave Scattering
- Sergey V. Birukov, Vladimir G. Polevoi, and Manfred Weihnacht

Reducing the Temperature Sensitivity of Love-Wave Sensors
- B. Jakoby and M. J. Vellekoop

Operation Performance of Layered-Structure Leaky Lamb Wave Transducer Under Liquid-Loaded Condition
- Kenji Motegi and Kohji Toda

Energy Confinement Time of Leaky Lamb Wave in Interdigital Transducers
- Michio Ohki and Kohji Toda

Application of Low Frequency Mechanical Resonators to Liquid Property Measurements
- L. F. Matsiev, J. W. Bennett, E. W. Mcfarland

Design Methodology of Single Crystal Tuning Fork Gyroscope for Automotive Applications
- M. Yachi, H. Ishikawa, Y. Satoh, Y. Takahashi and K. Kikuchi

Energy Trapping of Thickness-Shear Vibrations Excited by Parallel Electric Field and Its Application to Piezoelectric Vibratory Gyroscopes
- Hiroshi Abe, Tetsuo Yoshida, and Hiroshi Watanabe

Vibratory Gyro-Sensor Using a Flexural Same-Form Double-Mode Diaphragm Disk Resonator
- Hideki Tamura, Yoshiro Tomikawa, Takayuki Kikuchi and Sumio Sugawara

A New Approach to Piezoelectric Crystal Gyroscopes for Higher Sensitivity
- Noboru Wakatuki, Subaru Kudo, Yutaka Satoh and Hiroshi Tanaka

A Touch Probe Sensor Using Longitudinal Vibration of PZT Thin Film Transducer
- Takefumi Kanda, Takeshi Morita, Minoru K. Kurosawa, and Toshiro Higuchi

On-Line Determination of Tyre Deformation, a Novel Sensor Principle
- Valentin Magori, Valentin R. Magori, N. Seitz

Fire Detection with a Combined Ultrasonic-Microwave Doppler Sensor
- H. Ruser, V. Magori

Viscous Losses of Shear Waves in Layered Structures Used for Biosensing
- B. Jakoby and M. J. Vellekoop

Ultrasonic Density Sensor for Liquids
- Alf Puttmer and Peter Hauptmann

Chemical Sensors Using Surface Acoustic Wave Devices on Proton-Exchanged LiNbO3
- Chi-Yen Shen, Yu-Tang Shen, and Richard S. Horng

Estimation of Components and Concentrations in Mixture Solutions of Electrolytes Using a Liquid Flow System with Acoustic Wave Sensor
- T. Yamazaki, J. Kondoh, Y. Matsui and S. Shiokawa

Humidity Sensing Properties of Plasma Polymer Coated Surface Transverse Wave Resonators
- Ekaterina I. Radeva and Ivan D. Avramov

Piezoelectric Sensor Using a Porous Alumina Film Covered with a Catalytic Material
- Kohji Hohkawa, Kenji Komine, Hiroji Suzuki, Yasuyuki Sato and Keishin Koh

Acoustic Sensor for Aerosol Measurements
- L. Zipser and H. Franke

Dioxinmuran Detection and Analysis Using a SAW Based Electronic Nose
- Edward J. Staples

Surface Acoustic Wave Gas Phase Sensor Using Self-Assembled Monolayer Film
- T. Nomura, A. Saitoh and S. Furukawa

Integrated Array of SAW Sensors for Gas Analysis
- V. I. Ankimkin, V. I. Fedosov, R. G. Krystal, A. V. Medved, V. E. Zemlyakov, E. Verona

SAW Multisensor for a PCMCIA Environmental Data Card
- Helmut Stab, Matthias Plotner, Wolf-Joachim Fischer

SAW Pulse Oscillator Sensor with Optimized PSK Waveforms
- Helmut Stab, Heinz Hofmann

The Electromechanical Feed-Back in Piezoceramic Sensors and Transducers
- V. Sharapov, I. Sanvar, I. Chudaeva, M. Musienko

Steam Flowmeters
- Y. Urata, J. Freeke, J. E. Matson and L. C. Lynnworth

Piezoelectric Servo-Actuator of LiNbO3 with an Integrated Sensor
- H. Yokoyama, N. Wakatsuki and S. Kudo

Characteristics of the Piezoelectric Vibratory Gyrosensor Constructed Using a Trident Tuning-Fork Resonator
- A. Satoh, K. Ohnishi and Y. Tomikawa

A Paper-Quality Monitor Using a Quartz-Crystal Tuning-Fork Tactile Sensor
- Hideaki Itoh, Masataka Nomura, and Naoya Katakura

Measurement of Elastic Properties of Thin Film ZnO by Resonance Method
- Sachin A. Jade and Jan G. Smits

Higher-Order Piezoelectricity in PZT Ceramics and Efficiency of Acoustic Phase Conjugation
- K. Yamamoto, M. Ohno, A. Kokubo, K. Sakai and K. Takagi

Characterization of Electromechanical Properties of Relaxor-PT Piezoelectric Single Crystals
- Xuecang Geng, T. A. Ritter and S. E. Park

Analytic Modelling of Thickness Modes in 2-2 Composite Transducers
- R. Bourquin, B. Dulmet, and P. Vairac

Relaxor Ferroelectric Polymers for Actuators and Transducers
- Z. -Y. Cheng, V. Bharti, X. Zhao, Shexi Wang, T. -B. Xu, and Q. M. Zhang

Measurement of Piezoelectric and Elastic Stiffness Constants of Beta Phase Quartz at High Temperature Region
- Satoru Noge and Takehiko Uno

Study on Stress-Optical Coefficients for Analyzing Charader of Oscillating Quartz Crystal Resonators
- Sekiji Yamagata

Current -- Voltage Properties of Piezoelectric Thin Film ZnO in a Micromechanical Force Sensor
- W. Yuan, J. G. Smits, P. Dominguez, C. R. Cantor, C. L. Smith

History and Recent Progress in Piezoelectric Polymer Research
- Eiichi Fukada

High Vinylidene-Fluoride Content P(VDF-TrFE) Films for Ultrasound Transducers
- L. F. Brown and A. M. Fowler

PZT/P(VDF/TrFE) Nanocomposite Hydrophones for Ultrasonic Measurements
- H. L. W. Chan, S. T. Lau, K. W. Kwok, and C. L. Choy

Novel Piezocomposites for Ultrasonic Transducer Applications
- A. Safari, S. C. Danforth, R. K. Panda, G. Lous, I. Cornejo and A. Kholkine

Single Domain/Single Crystal Ferroelectric PbTiO3 Thin Films
- Kiyotaka Wasa, Yoko Haneda, Toshifumi Sato, Hideaki Adachi, and Isaku Kanno, Darrell G. Schlom and S. Trolier-Mckinstry, Qing Gang and C. B. Eom

Domain Formation in 0.90 Pb( Zn1/3Nb2/3 )O3 - 0.10PbTiO3 Single Crystals Under Electric Field Along [111] Direction
- Uma Belegundu, M. Pastor, X. H. Du, L. E. Cross and Kenji Uchino

Microwave Properties of La-Doped Lead Titanate Piezoelectric Films for Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators
- C. Maeda, A. Yamada, F. Uchikawa, K. Misu, S. Wadaka, and J. Shinada

The Use of Complex Material Constants to Model the Dynamic Response of Piezoelectric Materials
- S. Sherrit and B. K. Mukherjee

Lateral Modes and Diffracted Field Behaviour in Non-Periodical 1-3 Piezocomposite Transducers
- Carlos Negreira, Hector Gomez, Nicolas Perez, Lsmael Nunez, Jose Elras

Two Dimensional Characterization of Piezoelectric Ceramics
- N. Lamberti, F. Montero De Espinosa, A. Lula and M. Pappalardo

Piezoelectric Generation of Longitudinal Waves in Strontium Titanate at Cryogenic Temperatures
- R. Nava and R. Oentrich

Effects of Synthesis and Processing on the Dielectric and Electromechanical Properties of PMN and PMN-PT Materials
- L. F. Brown, J. Huang, J. J. Fitzgerald, G. T. Stranford, B. J. Schuldt and N. R. Burghardt

Control of Position of a Particle Using a Standing Wave Field Generated by Crossing Sound Beams
- Teruyuki Kozuka, Toru Tuziuti, Hideto Mitome, Toshio Fukuda and Fumihito Arai

Ultrasonic Actuators Using Near Field Acoustic Levitation
- Sadayuki Ueha, Yoshiki Hashimoto and Yoshikazu Koike

An Ultrasonic Actuator with Multidegree of Freedom Using Bending and Longitudinal Vibrations of a Single Stator
- Takafumi Amano, Takaaki Ishll, Kentaro Nakamura, and Sadayuki Ueha

A Micro Ultrasonic Motor Fabricated by Hydrothermal Method (1.4mm in Diameter and 5mm in Length Stator Transducer)
- Takeshi Morita, Minoru Kuribayashi Kurosawa and Toshiro Higuchi

Small-Sized Ultrasonic Linear Motor Using Radial and Nonaxisymmetric Vibration Modes of an Annular Plate
- T. Takano, Y. Enoki, S. Kitashima, and Y. Tomikawa

Miniaturization of Surface Acoustic Wave Linear Motor
- Masaya Takasaki, Naoki Osakabe, Minoru Kuribayashi Kurosawa and Toshiro Higuchi

Transducer for an Ultrasonic Linear Motor with Flexible Driving Part
- Tokiya Wakai, Minoru Kuribayashi Kurosawa, Toshiro Higuchi

Ceramic/Metal Composite Piezoelectric Motors
- Burhanettin Koc, Yuan Xu and Kenji Uchino

A Large Thrust Linear Ultrasonic Motor Using Longitudinal and Flexural Modes of Rod-Shaped Transducer
- Chaodong Li, and Chunsheng Zhao

New Control Method of Contact Force Between Rotor and Stator on Rod-Type Ultrasonic Motor
- M. Aoyagi and Y. Tomikawa

A Wear Evaluation Chart of Friction Materials Used for Ultrasonic Motors
- Takaaki Ishii, Kentaro Nakamura, Sadayuki Ueha and Kazumasa Ohnishi

An Optimum Design for the Hybrid Transducer Ultrasonic Motor in Symmetrical Structure
- Kentaro Nakamura, Jun Satonobu, Dongkyon Lee and Sadayuki Ueha

Acoustic Reflectivity Enhancement Using Higher-Order Nonlinear Reflection Mode
- Roman G. Maev and Igor Yu. Solodov

Quantitative Evaluation of Thin PET Film by an Ultrasonic Micro-Spectrometer
- Yoji Okabe, Nobuo Takeda, Masa-Aki Yanaka, and Yusuke Tsukahara

Flow Visualization of Ultrasound-Modulated Two-Fluid Atomization
- S. C. Tsai, P. Luu, G. Roski, and C. S. Tsai

Channel Flow by Applying Ultrasonic Vibration
- Shinfuku Nomura, Yuichi Sasaki and Koichi Murakami

Vibration Characteristics of One-Dimensional Longitudinal-Torsional Converter with Multiple Slitted Parts
- Jiromaru Tsujino and Tetsugi Ueoka

Piezo-Polymer Ultrasound Transducer with Controlled Resonance for Medicine and Robotics
- Antonino S. Fiorillo

Vibration and Welding Characteristics of High-Frequency Longitudinal-Transverse Vibration Ultrasonic Wire Bonding Systems
- Jiromaru Tsujino and Hiroyuki Yoshihara

A Subsurface Acoustic Imaging System
- Catherine H. Frazier, Nail Cadalh, David C. Munson, Jr. , and William D. O'Brien, Jr.

Ultrasonic TOF-CT System for Wooden Pillars
- Sadaharu Kanda, Katsuaki Shioya, Yoshikuni Yanagiya, Yasutaka Tamura and Kazunari Adachi

Photoacoustic Microscopic Imaging of a Simulated Pitting Corrosions for Brass and Aluminum Plates
- Yoichiro Hiwatashi, Tomoyuki Kumabayashi, Haruo Endoh and Tsutomu Hoshimiya

On the Casting of Fe-Ni-Invar Alloy in Ultrasonic Field
- H. Chiriac, M. Peptanariu, M. Lozovan, Maria Neagu and Cristina Buzea

Measurement of Injection Molding and Machining Process Using Ultrasonic Technique
- N. Nishiwaki, S. Hori, K. Yoshida, and K. Mineo

Suppression of Frosting on a Metal Surface Using Ultrasonic Vibrations
- Kazumari Adachi, Kazushi Saiki, and Hiroaki Sato

A New Vector Velocimetry by Real Time Ultrasonic Imaging Using M-Sequence Encoding Array Transducer
- Y. Murata, H. Toda, Y. Tamura and K. Koyama

Study on Underground 3D Imaging Method Using Shear Waves
- Tsuneyoshi Sugimoto, Naoki Yoshida and Motoyoshi Okujima

Brillouin Scattering of Simple Molecular Liquids at High Pressure
- Muhtar Ahart, Fuming Jiang, In Sung Park, Masayuki Mikami and Seiji Kojima

Field Induced Acoustic Emission (AE) in Ferroelectric Ceramics
- Kenji Uchino and Hideaki Aburatani

Modeling of Ultrasonic Fields and Their Interaction with Defects
- P. Calmon, A. Lhemery, L. Paradis

Numerical Simulation of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous, General Elastically Anisotropic Media
- M. Bihn and T. Weiland

Arrayed-Coil EMAT for Longitudinal Wave in Steel Wires
- Tomohiro Yamasaki, Shingo Tamai, and Masahiko Hirao

Recent Developments in Ultrasonic Devices for Monitoring Critical Parameters in Canadian Nuclear Reactors
- P. Kielczynski, J. Goszczynski

Materials Evaluation Using Long Clad Buffer Rods
- I. Ihara, C. -K. Jen, and D. R. Franca

Overview of Applications of Ultrasonics in the Pulp and Paper Industry
- P. H. Brodeur and J. P. Gerhardstein

Gabor Transform with Optimal Time-Frequency Resolution for Ultrasonic Applications
- M. A. Malik and J. Saniie

Effect of Signal-Processing Parameters on Phase Velocity Uncertainty
- M. C. Renken, C. M. Fortunko and C. T. Mullis

Ultrasonic Imaging Using Two Dimensional Cross-Correlation Function
- R. K. Ing, P. Fourneaux and M. Fink

Parameter Estimation of Multiple Interfering Echoes Using the Sage Algorithm
- R. Demirli and J. Saniie

Ultrasonic Attenuation Peak During Fatigue Test of Pure Copper Observed with Electromagnetic Acoustic Resonance (Emar)
- M. Hirao, H. Ogi, N. Suzuki and T. Ohtani

New Classes of Reconstruction Methods in Reflection Mode Diffraction Tomography
- Mark A. Anastasio, Matthew A. Kupinski, and Xiaochuan Pan

Defect Detection in Concrete Using Split Spectrum Processing
- Meric Karaoguz, Nihat Bilgutay, Tayfun Akgul, Sandor Popovics

Discrimination of the Background Medium of Concrete Using Electromagnetic Induced Ultrasonic Wave
- Liang Tao, Seiichi Motooka

Using Ultrasonic Guided Wave Mode Cutoff for Corrosion Detection and Classification
- Joseph L. Rose, James Barshinger

Nonlinear Signal Processing for Ultrasonic Target Detection
- H. C. Sun and J. Saniie

Ultrasonic Feature Extraction Techniques for Characterisation and Quantification of Scales in Petroleum Pipelines
- G. P. P. Gunarathne, Q. Zhou, K. Christidis

Nondestructive Evaluation of Defect in Optically Opaque Material by Polyvinylidene Difluoride Film Sensor
- A. Minamide and Y. Tokunaga

Ultrasonic Image Reconstruction Using Mode Converted Rayleigh Wave
- Dong-Man Suh, Whan-Woo Kim, Jin-Gyun Chung

High Resolution Acoustic Impulse Response in Air with Spectral Extrapolation by Linear Prediction
- Toyokatsu Miyashita and Takahiro Itaya

Sizing of Axial Defects in Pipes with FEM Simulation of Wave Propagation and Wavelet Transformation
- Shan Lin, Toshihiro Ito, Koichiro Kawashima, Motohiro Okade and Hisashi Nagamizo

Validation of the Short Time Correlation Analysis
- R. Bennacer, M. Gindre, J-Y. Le Huérou and S. Serfaty

Boundary Element Modeling for Guided Wave Reflection and Transmission Factor Analyses in Defect Classification
- Joseph L. Rose, Wenhao Zhu, Younho Cho

Compression and Decompression of Ultrasonic Echoes by Means of Parametric Wave Phase Conjugation
- V. Preobrazhensky, P. Pernod

Excitation of Bulk Shear Waves in Steel by Magnetostrictive Coupling
- B. Igarashi and G. A. Alers

Piezoelectric Transformer Using Inter-Digital Internal Electrodes
- Masafumi Katsuno, Yoshiaki Fuda

Thermal Analysis of a Piezoelectric Transformer
- Kouichi Kanayama

BVA Resonators: Analysis of Its Low G-Sensitivity
- J. J. Boy, F. Deyzac, N. Gufflet

Solidly Mounted Resonator Based on Aluminum Nitride Thin Film
- M. -A. Dubois, P. Muralt, H. Matsumoto, V. Plessky

A New Theory for Electroded Piezoelectric Plates and Its Finite Element Application for the Forced Vibrations Analysis of Quartz Crystal Resonators
- Ji Wang, Jiun-Der Yu, Yook-Kong Yong, and Tsutomu Imai

Even-Order Thickness-Shear Mode Resonators Using X-cut LiTaO3 Plates Realized by a Direct Bonding Technique
- M. Sugimoto, K. Takeda, T. Ohtsuchi, Y. Tomita, O. Kawasaki

Analysis of Film Thickness Dependence on Electrical Equivalent Model for AT-cut Resonators
- Mitsuo Nakazawa

Finite Element Simulation of TT Cut Torsional Quartz Crystal Resonators
- Kenji Sunaga and Hirofumi Kawashima

Improvements in 2D FEM Modeling Software for Crystal Resonators
- Tapani Makkonen, Antti Holappa, and Martti M. Salomaa

Piezoelectric Ceramic Transformer Using Radial Vibration Mode Disks
- K. Sakurai, S. Shindou, K. Ohnishi and Y. Tomikawa

Geometric Stress Compensation for Enhanced Thermal Stability in Micromechanical Resonators
- Wan-Thai Hsu and Clark T-C. Nguyen

Parasitic BAW Excitation in LSAW Transducers
- K. Honkanen, J. Koskela, V. P. Plessky, and M. M. Salomaa

New Design Method of Piezoelectric Transformer Considering High-Power Characteristics of Various Composition Ceramics
- S. Hirose, N. Takita and S. Takahashi

Piezoelectric Generator Using a LiNbO3 Plate with an Inverted Domain
- Tsukasa Funasaka, Makoto Furuhata, Yasuharu Hashimoto and Kiyoshi Nakamura

Bulk Acoustic Wave Microwave Composite Resonators and Filters with Acoustic Isolation of Resonating Layers
- G. D. Mansfeld, S. G. Alekseev, I. M. Kotelyanskii

Magnetoelastic Interaction in the Bulk Acoustic Wave Composite Resonator with Ferrite Layer
- N. I. Polzikova and G. D. Mansfeld

Characteristics of Piezoelectric Transformer for Power Supply
- Su-Ho Lee, Jae-Il Hong, Ju-Hyun Yoo, Geon Sa-Gong

Resonant Piezoelectric Ring Transformer
- W. Pajewski, P. Kielczynski and M. Szalewski

Piezoelectric Characteristics of PMN-PZT Ceramics for Piezoelectric Transformer
- J. H. Yoo, H. S. Yoon, K. H. Yoon, Y. H. Jeong, C. Y. Park

Silicon Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
- B. T. Khuri-Yakub, F. L. Degertekin, X-C. Jin, S. Calmes, I. Ladabaum, S. Hansen, and X. J. Zhang

Effect of Wraparound Electrodes on Ultrasonic Array Performance
- C. S. Desilets, D. J. Powell, N. Abboud, G. L. Wojcik

A 2.5 MHz Phased Linear Array Made from Stacked Piezoelectric Composite
- C. G. Oakley, M. J. Zipparo, L. M. Koornneef, B. G. Pazol, K. M. Gabriel, and M. S. Callahan

Defect Imaging by Micromachined Ultrasonic Air Transducers
- Sean Hansen, Neville Irani, F. Levent Degertekin, Igal Ladabaum, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub

A New Detection Method for Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
- A. Sanh Ergun, Burak Temelkuran, Ekmel Ozbay, and Abdullah Atalar

Optimization of a Sandwich Driver Structure Using Finite Element Analysis
- B. Cherek, D. Kielec

Measurement of Spectral Response of Ultrasonic Probes Effect of Diffraction, Lens, and Transrnitter/Receiver Circuit
- W. Steichen &. J-F. Gelly

Dielectric and Mechanical Absorption Mechanisms for Time and Frequency Domain Transducer Modeling
- D. I. Powell, J. Mould and G. L. Wojcik

Analytic Modeling of Loss and Cross-Coupling in Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
- Ayhan Bozkurt, F. L. Degertekin, Abdullah Atalarl, B. T. Khuri-Yakub

Computer Optimization of Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers
- M. Kaltenbacher, R. Lerch, H. Landes, K. Ettinger, B. Tittmann

Calculation of Transient Wave Fields in Layered Bodies
- Elfgard Kuhnicke

On-Axis Ultrasonic Field Characteristics of Monopole Pulse Radiated from Planar and Concave Transducers
- Kouji Takasaki, Kazuhiko Imano and Hiroshi Inoue

BAW Wavefront Propagation Simulations
- Kristina Bjorknas, Juha Fagerholm, Janne Salo, and Martti M. Salomaa

Ferroelectric Polymer Transducers for Transverse Ultrasonic Waves
- H. Ohigashi, S. Iwai, T. Miya, T. Yamamoto, Y. Yokono, and T. Imanaka

Improvement in Accuracy of Finite Modeling for Ultrasonic Transducers
- Jun Lan and Stephen G. Boucher

Model Updating Applied to Ultrasound Piezoelectric Transducers
- B. Piranda, W. Steichen, S. Ballandras

Transducer Material Characterization by Transmission Coefficient Measurements
- X. M. Lu, T. L. Rhyne, N. Tea, L. S. Smith

A Two-Dimensional Transducer Array for Real-Time 3D Medical Ultrasound Imaging
- J-M Bureau, W. Steichen and G. Lebail

Nondifiraction Beam Generated from an Annular Array Driven by Uniform Velocity Amplitude
- Tomoki Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Keinosuke Nagai, Koichi Mizutani and Akio Hasegawa

Comparison Between Different Finite Elementiboundary Formulations for Modeling Acoustic Radiation in Fluids
- B. Piranda, W. Steichen, S. Ballandras

Beam-Forming Using Multidimensional Sigma-Delta Modulation
- Yasutaka Tamura, Naoya Kawakami, Osamu Akasaka, Mitsuru Okada and Kiyohito Koyama

Novel Silicon Nitride Micromachined Wide Bandwidth Ultrasonic Transducers
- R. A. Noble, R. J. Bozeat, T. J. Robertson, D. R. Billson and D. A. Hutchins

Broadband Ultrasound Transducers Using Effectively Graded Piezoelectric Materials
- Ken Yamada, Jun-Ichi Sakamura and Kiyoshi Nakamura

Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Filters Using Lead Titanate on Silicon Substrate
- Koichiro Misu, Tsutomu Nagatsuka, Shusou Wadaka, Chisako Maeda and Akira Yamada

New Sensing Elements Based on the Delay Line Principle
- H. Chiriac, E. Hristoforou, Maria Neagu, I. Darie, Mirela Pletea and Cristina Buzea

Projection Theory for Waves in Anisotropic Solids
- C. -Y. Wang

Dependence of Sonoluminescence Intensity on the Geometrical Configuration of a Reactor Cell
- S. Hatanaka, T. Tuziuti, T. Kozuka and H. Mitome

Anomalous Heat Production by Cavitation
- Roger Stringham

Torsional Rod Waves in Tapered Regions
- Helge E. Engan

Higher-Order Modes in a Fluid-Filled Borehole
- Bikash K. Sinha and Sergey Asvadurov

Dynamic Measurement of Surface Properties with Ripplon Spectroscopy
- D. Mizuno, K. Hattori, K. Sakai and K. Takagi

Characterization for Piezoelectric Films Using Composite Resonators
- J. D. N. Cheeke, Y. Zhang, Z. Wang, M. Lukacs, and M. Sayer

Parallel Processing Simulations of the Propagation of Ultrasonic Waves Through Material Interfaces
- P. P. Delsanto, N. K. Batra, R. B. Mignogna and M. Scalerandi

Measurements and Finite Element Simulations of Guided Waves Propagating Along Linear and Circular Wedges
- C. H. Yang and J. S. Liaw

Laser Probing and FEM Modeling of Ultrasonically Vibrating Surfaces
- P. T. Tikka, J. Kaitila, M. Ylilammi, T. Makkonen, J. V. Knuuttila, K. Hashimoto and M. M. Salornaa

Amplitude of the Thickness Vibrations of Piezoelectric Plates
- Carl K. Hruska

Two Light Beams Diffraction by a Surface Acoustic Wave in an Anisotropic Solid
- A. V. Tsarev, E. A. Kolosovsky

A Frequency Sweep Method for Measuring the Sound Speed of a Small Sample Using an Ultrasonic Standing Wave
- Masasumi Yoshizawa, Norio Tagawa, Tadashi Moriya, and Shin-Ichi Yagi

Accurate Measurements of Longitudinal-Wave Velocity in IIW-Type Calibration Blocks
- T. P. Lerch, M. C. Renken, and C. M. Fortunko

Theoretical Model of Rayleigh Wave Interaction with Stripes of Viscous Liquids
- V. V. Krylov, M. I. Newton, J. A. Cowen, M. K. Banerjee and G. Mchale

Degradation Diagnosis of Polymeric Materials Using Ultrasonic Waves
- Junichiro Ikehara, Takeshi Ikeda, Tetsuya Ashida, Masanori Fujii

Acoustic Resonance Tracking in Sol Gel Materials
- S. Serfaty, P. Griesmar, M. Gindre, G. Gouedard and P. Figuiere

Investigation of Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity at Solid Interface
- Wen Qiu Wu, Yi Fa Ni, Gang Qiu and De Zhang

Subsonic Nondiffracting Waves in Anisotropic Crystals
- Janne Salo, Juha Fagerholm, Ari T. Friberg, and Martti M. Salomaa

A New Calculation Method for the Radiation Impedance of Square Piston
- Moo-Joon Kim, Chun-Duck Kim, Kang-Lyeol Ha

Redshift of the Ultrasonic Wave Frequency in Acoustic Streaming
- Masanori Sato and Toshitaka Fujii

Measurement of Viscosity Using Wave Mode Conversion
- F. Buiochi, J. C. Adamowski, C. M. Furukawa

Ultrasonic Measurement of Sound Velocity in Liquids Which Automatically Eliminates Temperature Dependence
- Kiyoshi Ikeda

Anomalous Absorption of Bulk Longitudinal Acoustic Waves in a Layered Structure with Viscous Fluid
- D. K. Gramotnev, M. L. Mather, T. A. Nieminen

Elasticity Measurement of Frozen Silt by Immersion Ultrasonic Sing-Around Method
- Masami Fukuda, Yu Sheng, Tohru Imamura

Sound Field Representation by Potential on the Boundary Localized Near Edges That Are Seen by an Observer
- Mitsuhiro Ueda

Transient Response of a Magnetic Liquid Column
- Tsuneyoshi Sugimoto and Motoyoshi Ohaba

Effects of Micro Bubbles Oscillation for Increase of Acoustic Streaming
- Shin'ichi Sakamoto and Yoshiaki Watanabe

Experimental Investigation of Magnetostatic Wave Soliton Propagation and Losses in a Long Yig Sample
- Takuro Koike

Frequency Dependence of Ultrasound Attenuation in II-Type Superconductor
- N. I. Polzikova, A. O. Raevskii and G. D. Mansfeld

Estimation of Physical Constants of Silicon-Based Polymer Thin Films Using Surface Acoustic Waves and Their Application to Liquid Sensor
- Shoji Furukawa, Tooru Nomura

Piezoelectric Photoacoustic Study of AlxGa1-xas Epitaxial Layer (X=0.22, 0.28, 0.5) Grown on Semi-Insulating GaAs Substrate
- A. Fukuyama, H. Fukuhara, Y. Akashi, K. Yoshino, K. Maeda and T. Ikari

Piezoelectric Photoacoustic Spectra of Bulk CuInS2 Single Crystals Grown by the Traveling Heater Method
- Kenji Yoshino, Masayuki Nishimoto, Atsuhiko Fukuyama, Hirosumi Yokoyama, Kouji Maeda, Hideto Miyake, Koichi Sugiyama and Tetsuo Ikari

Photoacoustic Spectra for Porous Si Analyzed by the Scattering Model with Reflection
- T. Kawahara, M. Mihara, J. Morimoto and T. Miyakawa

Velocity Measurements of Laser-Generated Ultrasound by Using Laser Arrays and a Phase Modulated Michelson Interferometer
- Hidetoshi Nakano, Youichi Matuda and Satoshi Nagai

A Circuit Theoretical Method for Efficient Finite Element Analysis of Acoustical Problems
- A. Suat Ekinci, Abdullah Atalar

Ultrasonic Force Microscopy in Waveguide Mode Up to 100 MHz
- K. Inagaki, O. V. Kolosov, G. A. D. Briggs, S. Muto, Y. Horisaki, and O. B. Wright

Time-Resolved Ultrasonic Body Wave Measurements of Material Anisotropy Using a Lensless Line-Focus Transducer
- N. N. Hsu, D. Xiang, and G. V. Blessing

Intermediate Temperature Scanning Acoustic Microscope
- Chiaki Miyasaka and Bernhard R. Tittmann

Optical Heterodyne Force Microscopy
- N. Kumano, K. Inagaki, O. V. Kolosov and O. B. Wright

A Fiber Optic Micro-Probe Array with Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Technique for Ultrasonic Field Measurements
- Yasuto Uno and Kentaro Nakamura

High Resolution Phase-Coherent Rayleigh-Brillouin Scattering Method
- Shinsaku Takagi and Hajime Tanaka

Recent Advances in All-Optical Acousto-Optic Devices
- Robert J. Filkins and Pankaj K. Das

New Self-Collimating Mode TeO2 Multichannel Bragg Cells
- Dennis R. Pape, Victor V. Kludzin, Victor S. Kulakov, Sergei V. Kulakov, and Victor V. Molotok

High Performance AOTFs for the Ultraviolet
- I. C. Chang and J. Xu

Numerical Analysis of Integrated Acoustooptic Tunable Filters with Weighted Coupling
- Kunimasa Saitoh, Masanori Koshiba, and Yasuhide Tsuji

High-Speed Collinear Acoustooptic Switches for Wavelength Division Multiplexing Photonic Switching by Gigahertz SAWs
- Yasumitsu Miyazaki and Nobuo Goto

To Facilities of AO-Spectrum Analyzer Implementation Into CDMA Telecommunications with Enhanced SIR-Factors
- V. V. Proklov and Yu. B. Sindler

Sh-Mode SAW and Its Acousto-Optic Interaction in KNbO3
- Kiyoshi Nakamura, Mitsuhiro Oshiki, and Hidenori Kitazume

A Magnetooptic Bragg Cell Modulator Incorporated in a Magnetostatic Forward Volume Wave Oscillator
- Jun Su and Chen S. Tsai

Time-Domain Measurement of Velocities and Attenuation with Low Frequency Acoustic Microscope
- Koichiro Kawashima, Ikuya Fujii, Naoki Takenouti and Yasushi Ikeda

Fast Laser Generated Rayleigh Wave Scanning Microscope
- M. Clark, S. D. Sharples and M. G. Somekh

Numerical Transient Analysis of a Line-Focus-Beam Ultrasonic Reflection Behavior from a Solid in a Real Size of Conventional Ultrasonic Microscope
- Masahiro Sato and Norio Nishizuka

Sizing of Small Voids Less Than Focused Beam Diameter with C-Scan Acoustic Microscope
- Naoya Nishimura, Koichiro Kawashima and Yasushi Ikeda

New Developments in Impulse Acoustic Microscopy Applied to the Shaped Material Characterization
- V. Eyraud, M. -H. Nadal and C. Gondard

Morphological and Acoustical Changes of Endothelium by Fluid Shear Stress
- Yoshifumi Saijo, Hidehiko Sasaki, Noriyuki Kataoka, Masaaki Sato, Shin-Ichi Nitta, and Motonao Tanaka

A New Echographic Cryoprobe for in Vivo Ultrasonic Monitoring of Skin Cryosurgery
- P. Laugier, J. L. Lefaix, G. Berger

Tracking Progressive Renal Disease with Quantitative Ultrasonic Imaging
- Timothy J. Hall, Pawan Chaturvedi, Michael F. Insana, John G. Wood, Htet Khant, Yanning Zhu, David Preston, and Benjamin D. Cowley

Limited Angle Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography of the Compressed Female Breast
- M. Krueger, V. Burow, K. M. Hiltawsky, H. Ermert

A Segmentation Algorithm of 3D Ultrasonic Data Based on Tissue Characterization
- D. Boukerroui, O. Basset, A. Baskurt, J. M. Gorce, D. Friboulet and G. Gimenez

High Resolution Imaging of Generalized K-Distribution Parameters Using Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Muscle After Back Surgery
- A. Pesavento, H. Ermert, E. Broll Zeitvogel and J. Grifka

High-Frequency Ultrasonic Detection of Protein Crosslinking in Myocardial Tissue
- Christopher S. Hall, Samuel A. Wickline

Effect of Stationary Reverberations and Clutter Filtering in Strain Rate Imaging
- A. Heimdal, J. D'hooge, B. Bijnens, G. Sutherland and H. Torp

Realtime Velocimetry for Evaluation of Change in Thickness of Myocardium and Arterial Wall
- Hiroshi Kanai, Noriyoshi Chubachi, Yoshiro Koiwa, and Motonao Tanaka

Anisotropy of Ultrasonic Parameters in Fresh Rat Skeletal Muscle in Vitro
- Karen A. Topp and William D. O'Brien, Jr.

Backscatter Imaging and Myocardial Tissue Characterization
- James G. Miller, Julio E. Perez, Samuel A. Wickline, Steven L. Baldwin, Benico Barzilai, Victor Davila-Roman, Russell J. Fedewa, Ann E. Finch-Johnston, Christopher S. Hall, Scott M. Handley, Franklin D. Hockett, Mark R. Holland, Attila Kovacs, Gregory M. Lanza, Stephen H. Lewis, Jon N. Marsh, Joel Mobley, David E. Sosnovik, Rebecca L. Trousil, Kirk D. Wallace, Kendall R. Waters

Nonlinear Propagation Effects on Broadband Attenuation Measurements
- J. D'hooge, J. M. Gorce, B. Bijnens, D. Friboulet, J. Nuyts, J. Thoen, P. Suetens and F. Van de Werf

A Simple Method for Measuring Complex Acoustic Impedance of Biological Tissues Using a Fused Quartz Rod as a Transmission Line
- Tadashi Moriya, Yousuke Furumoto, Norio Tagawa

Application of Sound Speed Estimation and Mapping to Multi-Layer Media and in Vivo Data
- M. E. Anderson, M. S. Mckeag, R. C. Gauss, M. S. C. Soo, and G. E. Trahey

Frequency Variation of Ultrasonic Attenuation Coefficient of Cancellous Bone Between 0.2 and 2.0 MHz
- S. Chaffai, G. Berger, P. Laugier

C-Mode Imaging of Reflection Ratio on Curved Surface of Bone
- T. Ishii, Y. Nakamori, H. Kanai, and N. Chubachi

Temperature Increase Estimates for Transabdominal Obstetrical Exposures
- William D. O'Brien, Jr.

Impact of Nonlinear Propagation on Temperature Distributions Caused by Diagnostic Ultrasound
- Kai E. Thomenius

In Vivo Verification of the Acoustic Model Used to Predict Temperature Elevations for MRI Guided Ultrasound Surgery
- Todd Fjield, Nathan McDannold, Christina Silcox, and Kullervo Hynynen

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound and Tissue Heating: The Effect of Nonlinear Sound Propagation and Vessel Presence
- Francesco P. Curra, Pierre D. Mourad, Vera A. Khokhlova and Lawrence A. Crum

In Vivo Effects of Interstitial Ultrasound Plane Applicator on Dunning Tumours
- C. Lafon, F. Prat, F. Gorry, J. Margonari, Y. Theillère, J. Y. Chapelon and D. Cathignol

Thermal Effects of Focused Ultrasound Energy on Bone Tissue
- Joshua M. Temkin, Nadine Barrie Smith, Fredrich Shapiro and Kullervo Hynynen

Advantages of Split-Focus Approach in Coagulation Therapy
- Shin-Ichiro Umemura, Ken-Ichi Kawabata and Kazuaki Sasaki

Threshold of Microbubble Agents Collapse by Ultrasound Irradiation
- M. Natori, T. Tsuchiya, S. Umemura, T. Shima, Y. Takeuchi and N. Kudo

The Effects of Ultrasonic Irradiation on Germination
- Sumitake Shimomura

Agents Promoting and Suppressing Acoustic Cavitation
- Ken-Ichi Kawabata, Kazuaki Sasaki and Shin-Ichiro Umemura

Tissue Elasticity Imaging Based on Combined Autocorrelation Method and 3-D Tissue Model
- N. Nitta, M. Yamakawa, T. Shiina, E. Ueno, Marvin M. Doyley and Jeffrey C. Bamber

Measurement of Local Elasticity of Human Carotid Arterial Walls and Its Relationship with Risk Index of Atherosclerosis
- Hideyuki Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kanai, Nozomu Hoshimiya, Noriyoshi Chubachi, and Yoshiro Koiwa

Regional Myocardial Layer Function in Doxorubicin Cardiomyopathy; Clinical Evaluation Using Novel Ultrasonic Doppler Method
- Yoshiro Koiwa, Hideichi Kamada, Hiroshi Kanai, Kohshiro Sugimura, Fumiaki Tezuka, Yoshiko Saitoh, Hideyuki Honda, Kunio Shirato, and Noriyoshi Chubachi

Noninvasive Evaluation of Bone Stiffness by Combining Microdefocusing Method and Reflectance Method
- Hitoshi Asai, Hiroshi Kanai, and Noriyoshi Chubachi

Correlation of High Frequency Ultrasound Backscatter with Cartilage Matrix Constituents
- B. Pellaumail, D. Loeuille, A. Watrin, P. Nett Er, G. Berger, A. Saied

Detection of Trabecular Bones' Axis for Accurate Diagnosis of Osteoporosis by Analyzing Scattered Ultrasonic Waves
- K. Kitamura, S. Ueha, S. Kimura and S. Ueha

Cortical Bone Velocity Mapping Using Leaky Surface Acoustic Waves
- E. Camus, G. Berger, P. Laugier

An Hybrid Wigner-Ville Approach to Estimate the Ultrasound Attenuation in Soft Biological Tissue
- J. P. Chemla, J. M. Girault, D. Kouame and M. Lethiecq

Basic Study on the Ultrasound Attenuation of Fibrous Biological Tissue in the Frequency Range of 10-40 MHz
- N. Kudo, M. Yoshida, K. Yamamoto, T. Mikami, A. Kitabatake, and Y. Ito

Real-Time Implementation of Lateral Flow Estimation Using Spatial Quadrature
- Martin E. Anderson

Performance of a Vector Velocity Estimator
- Peter Murk and Jorgen Arendt Jensen

Tissue Motion in Blood Velocity Estimation and Its Simulation
- M. Schlaikjer, S. T. Petersen, J. A. Jensen, P. F. Stetson

Clinical Blood Flow Measurements Using Diffraction-Grating Transducers
- D. Vilkomerson, D. Lyons, T. Chilipka, M. Delamere, P. Lopath, P. Palanchon, K. K. Shung

A New Imaging Technique of 3-D Velocity Vector Distribution Using 2-D Phased Array Probe
- Tsuyoshi Shiina and Naotaka Nitta

Volumetric Blood Flow Estimation Using Dynamic Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Color Flow Imaging
- Sevald Berg and Hans Torp

Historical Perspective of the Development of Echocardiography and Myocardial Ultrasound
- Motonao Tanaka

High Frequency Color Flow Imaging of the Microcirculation
- D. E. Goertz, D. A. Christopher, J. L. Yu, R. S. Kerbel, P. N. Burns, and F. S. Foster

High Resolution True Velocity Mapping with a 50 MHz Pulsed Wave Doppler System for Dermatology
- M. Vogt and H. Ermert

Cyclic Variation of Doppler Power as a Function of Hematocrit and Vessel Wall Compliance
- Thanassis X. Misaridis and K. Kirk Shung

The Potential of Transskull Ultrasound Therapy Using the Maximum Available Skull Surface Area
- Jie Sun and Kullervo Hynynen

Interstitial Ultrasound Applicators with Internal Cooling for Controlled High Temperature Thermal Therapy
- D. L. Deardorff and C. J. Diederich

Simulations of Linear Arrays for Interstitial Ultrasound Thermal Therapy
- R. Chopra, M. Bronskill, S. Foster

Low Profile Lenses for Ultrasound Surgery
- T. Fjield, C. E. Silcox, and K. Hynynen

Combined Imaging and Therapy with Piezocomposite Phased Arrays
- Claudio Simon, Philip Vanbaren, Emad Ebbini

Large Scale Phased Array and System for Treatment of Deep Seated Tissue
- D. R. Daum and K. Hynynen

Self-Focusing HIFU Source for Large Therapy Volumes
- J. Hoffelner, M. Bechtold, B. Granz, R. Lerch and K. Newerla

The Effects of the Correlation Function Estimators to the Blood Velocity Estimation
- X. Lai and H. Torp

Blood Detection Performance in Moving Tissue
- Steinar Bjaerum and Hans Torp

RF Lines Realignment and Stationary Echo Canceling for Microcirculation Study: Experimental Results
- F. Gens, J. P. Remenieras, S. Diridollou, F. Patat

An Automatic Doppler Angle and Flow Velocity Measurement Method
- Huihua Kenny Chiang, Bor-Ray Lee, Cheng-Deng Kuo, Yi-Hong Chou, and San-Kan Lee

A Study of Second Harmonic Generation by Focused Medical Transducer Pulses
- Greg Wojcik, John Mould, Sevig Ayter, Laura Carcione

A New Tissue Harmonic Imaging Scheme with Better Fundamental Frequency Cancellation and Higher Signal-To-Noise Ratio
- Peng Jiang, Zuhua Mao, and John C. Lazenby

Development of Noninvasive Parametric Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaque
- S. L. Bridal, B. Beyssen, P. Fornes, P. Julia, G. Berger

Influence of Insonification Angle on Echogenicity of B-Mode Images of Atherosclerotic Plaque in Vitro
- J. E. Wilhjelm, S. K. Jespersen, J. U. Hansen, N. I. H. Nyssen

Realtime Adaptive Imaging
- K. W. Rigby, E. A. Andarawis, C. L. Chalek, B. H. Haider, W. L. Hinrichs, R. A. Hogel, W. M. Leuel, M. G. Angle, B. T. McEathron, S. C. Miller, S. M. Peshman, M. A. Peters, L. J. Thomas, S. Krishnan and M. O'Donnell

Optimum Correlator Arrangement for Two-Directional Phase-Aberration Correction
- Yuichi Miwa, Shin-Ichiro Umemura, Ryuichi Shinomura, and Matthew O'Donnell

Adaptive Speckle Reduction with Color Transparency Display
- Dong Liu, Stephen Czenszak and Jin Kim

Motion Estimation Using Selective Signal Redundancy in Subaperture Processing
- Mustafa Karaman and Bulent Tavh

Reducing Number of Elements of Transducer Arrays in Fourier Image Construction Method
- Jian-Yu Lu and Shiping He

Ultrasound Spatial Compound Scanner for Improved Visualization in Vascular Imaging
- S. K. Jespersen, J. E. Wilhjelm and H. Sillesen

A Novel Approach for a Bias-Free Reduction of Image Variance in Ultrasonic Diffraction Tomography
- Xiaochuan Pan and Mark Anastasio

Ultrasound Inverse Scattering Determination of Speed of Sound, Density, and Absorption
- Sung-Jae Kwon and Mok-Kun Jeong

Ultrasound-Stimulated Vibro-Acoustic Imaging in Vivo
- James F. Greenleaf and Mostafa Fatemi

Depth-Dependent Mismatched Filtering Using Ultrasonic Attenuation as a Filter Design Parameter
- K. Eck, R. Schwann, A. R. Brenner and T. G. Noll

Pulsed Stroboscopic Visualizer to Synchronously Monitor the Microballoon Under Insonification
- Y. Takeuchi

Quantitative Ultrasonic Attenuation Image of the Biological Tissues Using the Inverse Scattering Technique
- Akira Yamada and Masaki Kuroiwa

Image Reconstruction of Diffraction Tomography Using Linograms
- Tomoki Yokoyama, Keinosuke Nagai, Koichi Mizutani and Akio Hasegawa

Ultrasonic Tomography Using Arc Focusing Beam
- N. Takizawa, A. Ohya, and I. Akiyama

Portable Ultrasound Device for Battlefield Trauma
- Juin-Jet Hwang, Jens Quistgaard, Jacques Souquet, Lawrence A. Crum

Mustpac 3-D Ultrasound Telemedicine / Telepresence System
- Richard J. Littlefield, Christian R. Macedonia, John D. Coleman

Three Dimensional Ultrasonic Imaging for Diagnosis of Breast Tumor
- S. Ogawa, K. Ltoh, K. Omoto, X. Cheng, A. Ohya, and I. Akiyama

A Novel Combined Ultrasound and Near Infrared Diffusive Light Imaging Using a Two-Dimensional Hybrid Array
- Quing Zhu, Turgut Durduran, Arjun Yodh

Structural Analysis of the Skin Using High Frequency, Broadband Ultrasound in the Range from 30 to 140 MHz
- M. Vogt, H. Ermert, S. El Gammal, K. Kaspar, K. Hoffmann, P. Altmeyer

Imaging Spatial Distribution of High-Frequency Small Vibrations on the Heart Wall
- Hiroshi Kanai, Shigemitsu Nakaya, Noriyoshi Chubachi, Yoshiro Koiwa

Parametric Estimation of 2-D Motion on Ultrasonic Images Using Respiratory Signal
- Michito Iida, Norio Tagawa, Akihiro Minagawa, Tadashi Moriya, Shinichi Minohara

Detection of Biopsy Needle Position in a Live Body Using Color Doppler Imaging System
- N. Shibuya, Y. Tomikawa and T. Shimazaki

A Speckle Suppression Technique Based on Beam-Space Processing for Medical Ultrasound Imaging
- Fatma N. Ucar

A Comparison of Matched Signals Used in Three Different Phase-Aberration Correction Algorithms
- Yue Li and Robert Gill

Segmentation of Liver Tumors in Ultrasound Images Based on Scale-Space Analysis of the Continuous Wavelet Transform
- Hiroyuki Yoshida, Bilgin Keserci, David D. Casalino, Ahdulhakim Coskun, Omer Ozturk, Ahmet Savranlar

Second Harmonic Leakage Suppression by Notching
- Sheng-Wen Huang, Chung-Yuo Wu, and Jenho Tsao

Experimental Considerations of Multi-Order Sampling for Digital Beamforming
- Byeong Yoon Na, Sung Jae Kwon, and Young Bok Ahn

A New Fourier-Based Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique for Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging
- T. Rastello, C. Haas, D. Vray, M. Krueger, K. Schroeder, E. Brusseau, G. Gimenez, H. Ermert

IVUS Elastography: A Potential Identifier of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque
- C. L. de Korte, H. A. Woutman, A. F. W. van der Steen, E. I. Cespedes, G. Pasterkamp

Novel Developments in Intravascular Imaging
- A. F. W. van der Steen, E. I. Cespedes, C. L. de Korte, S. G. Carlier, W. Li, F. Mastik, C. T. Lancee, J. Borsboom, F. Lupotti, R. Krams, P. W. Serruys, N. Bom

Elastography: Imaging of Tissue Elastic Properties in Vivo
- I. Ophir, K. Alam, B. Garra, F. Kallel, E. Konofagou, T. Varghese

Three-Dimensional Motion Estimation in Elastography
- E. E. Konofagou, F. Kallel and J. Ophir

Elasticity Imaging of the Liver: Is a Hemangioma Hard or Soft?
- S. Y. Emelianov, J. M. Rubin, M. A. Lubinski, A. R. Skovoroda and M. O'donnell

Non-Linear Tissue Elasticity: Adaptive Elasticity Imaging for Large Deformations
- S. Y. Emelianov, R. Q. Erkamp, M. A. Lubinski, A. R. Skovoroda and M. O'donnell

Ultrasonic Strain Imaging of the Female Breast Using Phase Root Seeking and Three-Dimensional "Optical Flow"
- M. Krueger, A. Pesavento, H. Ermert, K. M. Hiltawsky, L. Heuser, H. Rosenthal, A. Jensen

Diagnosis of Prostate Carcinoma Using Multicompression Strain Imaging: Data Acquisition and First in Vivo Results
- A. Lorenz, H. -J. Sommerfeld, M. Garcia-Schurmann, S. Philippou, Th. Senge, H. Ermert

Time-Efficient and Exact Algorithms for Adaptive Temporal Stretching and 2D-Correlation for Elastographic Imaging Using Phase Information
- A. Pesavento, H. Ermert

Deformable Mesh Algorithm for Strain Imaging with Complex Tissue Deformation
- Y. Zhu, M. F. Insana, P. Chaturvedi, T. J. Hall, L. T. Cook, J. M. Gauch, H. Khant

Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Clinical Applications
- J. M. Correas, O. Helenon, M. Cherkaoui, J. F. Moreau

Functional Imaging of Tissue Response to Bolus Injection of Ultrasound Contrast Agent
- R. J. Eckersley, D. O. Cosgrove, M. J. Blomley, H. Hashimoto

Perfusion Imaging with Pulse Inversion Doppler and Microbubble Contrast Agents: In Vivo Studies of the Myocardium
- David Hope Simpson, Peter N. Burns

Multi-Pulse Ultrasound Contrast Imaging Based on a Decorrelation Detection Strategy
- Peter J. A. Frinking, E. Ignacio Cespedes, Nico de Jong

The Effect of Low Intensity Ultrasound on Optison™
- W. H. Chen, K. K. Shung

Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Present But Not Seen
- Peter P. Chang, Wen-Shiang Chen, Pierre D. Mourad, Sandra L. Poliachik and Lawrence A. Crum

Acoustic Characterisation of Nycomed's Nc100100 Contrast Agent
- Lars Hoff, Per C. Sontum

Correlation Analysis of Received Echoes from Contrast Agents In-Vitro and In-Vivo
- J. E. Chomas, R. A. Sikes, K. W. Ferrara

Magnetic Microparticles as Labeling or Contrast Medium for Medical Imaging, an In-Vitro Feasibility Study
- Y. Takeuchi

Correction of Doppler Spectrum Widening Due to Scintillation of Decaying Microbubble Contrast Agent Injected in Flowing Fluid. Mathmatical Modeling and In-Vitro Study
- Y. Takeuchi

Simulation of Echographic Image of Contrast Agent
- L. Gerfault, C. Cachard, G. Gimenez

Detection of Micro Bubbles in the Extracorporeal Circulation
- Klaus-Vitold Jenderka, Georg Dietrich, Ulrich Cobet, Bernhard Kopsch, Albrecht Klemenz and Peter Urbanek

A Method for Detecting Echoes from Microbubble Contrast Agents Based on Time-Variance
- Wilko G. Wilkening, John Lazenby, Helmut Ermert

Experimental Verification of Ensemble Model for Scattering by Microbubbles Population in a Contrast Agent
- Chien Tang Chin and Peter N. Burns

A Multi-Row Transducer Array for Adaptive Imaging
- D. G. Wildes, K. M. Durocher, W. A. Hennessy, R. S. Lewandowski, K. W. Rigby, J. K. Sleeter, L. S. Smith, G. C. Sogoian, V. S. Venkataramani, A. A. Bhave, J. J. David, L. J. Keres, G. A. Lillegard, X. M. Lu, D. P. Miller, G. L. Potrykus, J. J. Strother, and N. H. Tea

Optimization of 1.5D Arrays
- Richard Y. Chiao, K. Wayne Rigby, and Douglas G. Wildes

Echo Signal from Rough Planar Interfaces - Influence of Roughness, Angle, Range and Transducer Type
- J. E. Wilhjelm, P. C. Pedersen, S. -M. Jacobsen and K. Martinsen

Real-Time Three Dimensional Data Acquisition
- N. de Jong, K. K. Djoa, A. F. W. van der Steen, C. T. Lancee, J. D. Kasprzak, C. Breburda, N. Bom

A 3.5 MHz Phased Array Probe Using 0.91Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.09PbTiO3 Single Crystal
- Shiroh Saitoh, Takashi Takeuchi, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Kouichi Harada, Senji Shitnanuki, and Yohachi Yamashita

30 MHz Medical Imaging Arrays Incorporating 2-2 Composites
- T. Ritter, K. K. Shung, X. Geng, H. Wang, and T. R. Shrout

Elevation Beam Profile Measurement: A Simple Test Object for Evaluation of Arrays and 3D Imaging Performance
- Bruno Richard and Bruno Robert

Realization of Transmit and Receive Focusing with Limited-Diffraction Beam Using Linear Transducer in B-Mode Ultrasound Imaging System
- Mok-Kun Jeong, Moo-Ho Bae, and Seong-Ho Chang

Theoretical Assessment of a Synthetic Aperture Beamformer for Real-Time 3-D Imaging
- C. R. Hazard and G. R. Lockwood

Experimental Validation of a Diffraction Correction Model for High Frequency Measurement of Ultrasound Backscatter Coefficients
- J. C. Machado and F. S. Foster

Multi-Layered PZT/Polymer Composites to Increase Signal to Noise Ratio and Resolution for Medical Ultrasound Transducers
- David M. Mills and Stephen W. Smith

Micromachined Capacitive Transducer Arrays for Medical Ultrasound Imaging
- X. C. Jin, F. L. Degertekin, S. Calmes, X. J. Zhang, I. Ladabaum, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub

Comparison of a Miniature, Ultrasonic, Optical Fibre Hydrophone with PVDF Hydrophone Technology
- P. C. Beard, A. Humell, E. van den Elzen, T. N. Mills

Non-Linear Propagation of Limited Diffraction Beams
- Johan-Fredrik Synnevag and Sverre Holm

An Analytical Prediction of the Nonlinear Diffractive Fields of Medical Ultrasound Tranducers
- Nikolay A. Kharin and Geoffrey R. Lockwood

Author Index