OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	90
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Single Probe Enabled Refraction-Corrected Transcranial Passive Acoustic Mapping Through Macaque Calvaria	65
Extending the Linearity of AlScN Contour-Mode Resonators Through Acoustic Metamaterials-Based Reflectors	64
An Averaging Method for Phase Noise Studies of Quartz Phononic Frequency Combs	64
Comparative Characterization of Nonlinear Ultrasound Fields Generated by Sonalleve V1 and V2 MR-HIFU Systems	58
Deep Null Space Learning Improves Dataset Recovery for High Frame Rate Synthetic Transmit Aperture Imaging	55
Temperature-Stable High-Power Properties of (K, Na)NbO₃-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics	48
Efficient 3-D Finite Element Modeling of Periodic XBAR Resonators	47
Adhesive Porosity Analysis of Composite Adhesive Joints Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves	47
Personalized Cancer Therapeutics Using Photoacoustic Imaging-Guided Sonodynamic Therapy	43
Single-Beam Acoustic Tweezers for Cell Biology: Molecular to In Vivo Level	41
Acceleration-Based Kalman Tracking for Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging In Vivo	40
High-Quality Ultrafast Power Doppler Imaging Based on Spatial Angular Coherence Factor	39
3-D High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging by Piezo-Driving a Single-Element Transducer	39
Ultrasound-Based Registration for the Computer-Assisted Navigated Percutaneous Scaphoid Fixation	38
Development of Tunable Ferroelectric Ceramic Capacitors	38
Feasibility of Hologram-Assisted Bilateral Blood–Brain Barrier Opening in Non-Human Primates	37
Spatial Coherence Approaches to Distinguish Suspicious Mass Contents in Fundamental and Harmonic Breast Ultrasound Images	35
A Forward Model Incorporating Elevation-Focused Transducer Properties for 3-D Full-Waveform Inversion in Ultrasound Computed Tomography	33
Ultrasound Imaging With a Flexible Probe Based on Element Array Geometry Estimation Using Deep Neural Network	33
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Hydrophone Measurements for Biomedical Ultrasound Applications: A Review	32
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	31
Comb Detection for Measuring Shear Wave Propagation	29
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	29
Spatial Imaging of Local Degradations in Li-Ion Batteries Using Sparsely Distributed Active Sensors	29
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3-D Coherent Multitransducer Ultrasound Imaging With Sparse Spiral Arrays	28
Al_0.78Sc_0.22N Lamb Wave Contour Mode Resonators	28
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Spatial Ambiguity Correction in Coherence-Based Average Sound Speed Estimation	27
Deconvolution-Based Partial Volume Correction for Volumetric Blood Flow Measurement	27
Transthoracic Ultrasound Improves Cardiac Function in Mice	27
A Hand-Held Magnetic Acoustic Device With Integrated Real-Time Monitoring for Targeted Drug Delivery	26
Convolutional Neural Network-Based Speckle Tracking for Ultrasound Strain Elastography: An Unsupervised Learning Approach	26
The Revisited Frequency-Shift Method for Shear Wave Attenuation Computation and Imaging	25
Zig-Zag ScAlN 12-Layer for Shear Mode BAW Transformer Application in Rectenna	25
Neurovascular Hypoxia Trajectories Assessed by Photoacoustic Imaging in a Murine Model of Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation	25
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Unsupervised Feature Extraction From Raw Data for Gesture Recognition With Wearable Ultralow-Power Ultrasound	24
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	24
Single-Fiber Transducer Arrays for 3-D Ultrasound Computed Tomography: From Requirements to Results	23
Resistivity Index Mapping in Kidney Based on Ultrasensitive Pulsed-Wave Doppler and Automatic Spectrogram Envelope Detection	23
Point Detection in Ultrasound Using Prewhitening and Multilook Optimization	23
In Memory of Wang Weiqi: An Early Pioneer of Biomedical Ultrasonics in China (1939–2022)	23
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	22
First-Order Speckle Statistics for the Detection of Microstructural Anisotropy	22
Bedside Ultrasound Vector Doppler Imaging System With GPU Processing and Deep Learning	22
Effects of Soft Encapsulation on the Receive Performance of PMUTs for Implantable Devices	22
High-Frequency Ultrasound Elastography to Assess the Nonlinear Elastic Properties of the Cornea and Ciliary Body	22
An Inverse Method Using Cross-Spectral Matrix Fitting for Passive Cavitation Imaging	21
Multipeak Coercive Electric-Field-Based Multilevel Cell Nonvolatile Memory With Antiferroelectric-Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors (FETs)	21
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	20
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	20
Front Cover	20
Functional Photoacoustic Imaging for Placental Monitoring: A Mini Review	20
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High-Quality Passive Acoustic Mapping With the Cross-Correlated Angular Spectrum Method	20
Spotlight Issue on Lead-Free Piezoelectric Transducers	20
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Systematic Frequency Error in Laser Synchronization Circuits for Fiber-Optic Time-Transfer Systems	20
Thin-Film Piezoelectric Acoustic Emission Sensor With High Sensitivity Up to 650 °C	19
Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms From Time-Resolved 3-D Ultrasound Images Using Deep Learning	19
Knee Bone Models From Ultrasound	19
Rationally Designed Acoustic Holograms for Uniform Nanodroplet-Mediated Tissue Ablation	19
Row Transmission for High Volume-Rate Ultrasound Imaging With a Matrix Array	19
Using a Traveling-Wave Piezoelectric Device to Generate a Liquid Wave for Efficient Lightweight Particle Transfer	18
High-Frequency Linear Array (20 MHz) Based on Lead-Free BCTZ Crystal	18

Single-Bit Reception With Coded Excitation for Lightweight Advanced Ultrasonic Imaging Systems	18
Directional Multifrequency Guided Waves Communications Using Discrete Frequency-Steerable Acoustic Transducers	18
Package-Less Liquid Phase Sensing Using Surface Acoustic Waves on Lithium Tantalate Oxide	18
Lamb Wave Frequency Diverse Array	18
Visualization of Human Hand Tendon Mechanical Anisotropy in 3-D Using High- Frequency Dual-Direction Shear Wave Imaging	18
Phase Unwrapping of Color Doppler Echocardiography Using Deep Learning	18
Speckle Reduction via Deep Content-Aware Image Prior for Precise Breast Tumor Segmentation in an Ultrasound Image	18
Design and Fabrication of 1-D CMUT Arrays for Dual-Mode Dual-Frequency Acoustic Angiography Applications	18
Sliding Window Dynamic Time-Series Warping-Based Ultrasonic Guided Wave Temperature Compensation and Defect Monitoring Method for Turnout Rail Foot	18
High-Resolution Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging for Adult Zebrafish Myocardial Tissue Through Ultrafast High-Frequency Ultrasound Vector Doppler Estimation	18
Efficient Microbubble Trajectory Tracking in Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Using a Gated Recurrent Unit-Based Multitasking Temporal Neural Network	17
Patch Fusion: A Novel Ultrafast Multi-Frequency Ultrasound Fusion Imaging Method for Pedicle Screw Navigation	17
Call for Papers: Spotlight Issue on Lead-Free Piezoelectric Transducers	17
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3-D Passive Cavitation Imaging Using Adaptive Beamforming and Matrix Array Transducer With Random Apodization	17
3-D Ultrafast Shear Wave Absolute Vibro-Elastography Using a Matrix Array Transducer	17
In Vivo Demonstration of a Real-Time Temporal SNR Acoustic Output Adjustment Method	17
Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Arrays for Assessment of Pipe Internal Geometry and Surface Condition	17
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	17
BentRay-NeRF: Bent-Ray Neural Radiance Fields for Robust Speed-of-Sound Imaging in Ultrasound Computed Tomography	17
Frequency Shifts in a Coherent Population Trapping Cs Vapor Cell Atomic Clock	16
Self-Supervised Learning With Limited Labeled Data for Prostate Cancer Detection in High-Frequency Ultrasound	16
Simultaneous Coherent and Displacement Compounding for 2-D Noninvasive Carotid Strain Imaging: A Proof of Principle Study	16
Ultrasonic Imaging Based on Pulsed Airy Beams	16
A Forked Microvascular Phantom for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Investigations	16
Wideband Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator With Good Temperature Stability Using LiNbO₃ on Glass	16
Deep Learning in Ultrasound Localization Microscopy: Applications and Perspectives	16
Extending the Transmit and Receive Bandwidths of Dual-Frequency Transducers Toward Clinical Acoustic Angiography: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies	16
Real-Time Speed-of-Sound Estimation In Vivo via Steered Plane Wave Ultrasound	15
Randomized Spatial Downsampling-Based Cauchy-RPCA Clutter Filtering for High-Resolution Ultrafast Ultrasound Microvasculature Imaging and Functional Imaging	15
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	15
Experimental Estimation of Lamb Wave Dispersion Curves for Adhesively Bonded Aluminum Plates, Using Two Adjacent Signals	15
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High-Performance Electrode-Post CMUTs: Fabrication Details and Best Practices	15
The Big Bang of Deep Learning in Ultrasound-Guided Surgery: A Review	15
Table of Contents	15
Front Cover	15
Multiplane Diffractive Acoustic Networks	15
Efficient Stratified 3-D Scatterer Sampling for Freehand Ultrasound Simulation	15
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Self-Supervised Optimization of RF Data Coherence for Improving Breast Reflection UCT Reconstruction	15
Comprehensive Comparison of Image Quality Aspects Between Conventional and Plane-Wave Imaging Methods on a Commercial Scanner	14
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Influence of Image Discretization and Patch Size on Microbubble Localization Precision	14
Compressive Sensing Strategy on Sparse Array to Accelerate Ultrasonic TFM Imaging	14
BEAS-Net: A Shape-Prior-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Robust Left Ventricular Segmentation in 2-D Echocardiography	14
MRI Coregistered Rodent Histotripsy Array for Orthotopic Liver Models	14
Transcranial Ultrasound Imaging With Decomposition Descent Learning-Based Full Waveform Inversion	14
Synthetic Lung Ultrasound Data Generation Using Autoencoder With Generative Adversarial Network	14
Complementary Coded Multiplane Wave Sequences for SNR Increase in Ultrafast Power Doppler Ultrasound Imaging	14
Tissue Clutter Filtering Methods in Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Based on Complex-Valued Networks and Knowledge Distillation	14
Development of Automatic Assessment Framework for Spine Deformity Using Freehand 3-D Ultrasound Imaging System	13
Microvascular Ultrasound Imaging in the Neonatal Brain: From Advanced Doppler to Super-Resolution	13
Quantifying Valve Regurgitation Using 3-D Doppler Ultrasound Images and Deep Learning	13
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Validation of Volumetric Multifrequency Shear Wave Vibro-Elastography With Matrix Array Transducer for the In Vivo Liver	13
Design and Analysis of Guided Surface Acoustic Waves in ScAlN on Sapphire for Phononic Integrated Circuits	13
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	13
Array Transducer Design: A Vibrant Research Theme in Medical Ultrasonics	13
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	13
Ultrasound Viscoelastography by Acoustic Radiation Force: A State-of-the-Art Review	13
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Evaluation of Performance Tradeoffs When Using Mechanically Swept 1-D Linear Arrays for 3-D DCE-US	13
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Ultrafast Ultrasound Vector Doppler for Small Vasculature Imaging	12
Adaptive Models for Multi-Covariate Imaging of Sub-Resolution Targets (MIST)	12
Independent Component Analysis Filter for Small Vessel Contrast Imaging During Fast Tissue Motion	12
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Unsupervised Test-Time Adaptation for Hepatic Steatosis Grading Using Ultrasound B-Mode Images	12
Retraction Notice: New Mega-Farad Ultracapacitors	12
Adaptation of Range-Doppler Algorithm for Efficient Beamforming of Monostatic and Multistatic Ultrasound Signals	12
Experimental Study of Transverse Mode Suppression on Wideband Hetero Acoustic Layer Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator	12
Enhanced Needle Visualization With Reflection Tuned Apodization Based on the Radon Transform for Ultrasound Imaging	12
High-Overtone Bulk Acoustic Resonators and Comb Filters Using Epitaxial ε-Ga₂O₃ Films on 4H-SiC	12
A Compact 2-D Matrix Array Comprised of Hexagonal Transducer Elements for Fast Volumetric Ultrasound Imaging	12
Enhanced Performance of 200-kHz PMN-PT Crystal Transducers Through Medium-Temperature AC Poling and Electrically Parallel Stacking	12
Underestimation of Flow Velocity in 2-D Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging	12
Nonlinear Equivalent Circuit of High-Power Sandwich Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducer	12
A High-Performance 3-D Imaging Technique Using Simultaneous Azimuth and Elevation Compounding	12

Five Low-Noise Stable Oscillators Referenced to the Same Multimode AlN/Si MEMS Resonator	12
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Biaxial Excitation and Reception Method Applied to Ultrasound Imaging	12
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High-Frequency Ultrasound Activation of Perfluorocarbon Nanodroplets for Treatment of Glaucoma	12
Multi-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging Fusion Method Based on Wavelet Transform for Guided Screw Insertion	12
An Automatic 3-D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Combined Imaging System for Human Inflammatory Arthritis	12
Front Cover	11
A Miniature Ultrasound Source for Neural Modulation	11
Homodyned K-Distribution Parameter Estimation in Quantitative Ultrasound: Autoencoder and Bayesian Neural Network Approaches	11
Optimized Simultaneous Axial Multifocal Imaging via Frequency Multiplexed Focusing	11
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	11
Fatigue State Characterization of Steel Pipes Using Ultrasonic Shear Waves	11
Time-Sharing Acoustic Tweezers for Parallel Manipulation of Multiple Particles	11
A Review of Lead Perovskite Piezoelectric Single Crystals and Their Medical Transducers Application	11
Dual-Scan Photoacoustic Tomography for the Imaging of Vascular Structure on Foot	11
Optical-Comb-Based Frequency Stability Transfer Across the Spectrum With a Multichannel FPGA	11
Study on Loss Mechanisms in SAW Resonators Using 42-LT Thin Plate by Full-3-D FEM With Hierarchical Cascading Technique	11
Grating Lobe Reduction in Plane-Wave Imaging With Angular Compounding Using Subtraction of Coherent Signals	11
Super-Resolution Ultrasound: From Data Acquisition and Motion Correction to Localization, Tracking, and Evaluation	11
Denoising Plane Wave Ultrasound Images Using Diffusion Probabilistic Models	10
Spotlight Issue on Frontiers in Photoacoustic Imaging	10
Surface-Acoustic-Wave-Driven Acoustic Tweezing in a Silicon Microfluidic Chip	10
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	10
An Algorithm to Estimate the Power Spectral Density From Allan Deviation	10
Symmetry Aspects in the Use of Multilayered Substrates for SAW Devices	10
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In Vivo Aberration Correction for Transcutaneous HIFU Therapy Using a Multielement Array	10
A Multivariate Statistical Approach to Wrinkling Detection in Composites	10
Acoustic Stack for Combined Intravascular Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging	10
Combining Spatial Registration With Clutter Filtering for Power-Doppler Imaging in Peripheral Perfusion Applications	10
Detection of Individual Microbubbles by Burst-Wave-Aided Contrast-Enhanced Active Doppler Ultrasonography	10
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Quantitative Acoustic Attenuation Scanning Using a Phase-Insensitive Ultrasound Computed Tomography System	10
Transcranial Phase Correction Using Pulse-Echo Ultrasound and Deep Learning: A 2-D Numerical Study	10
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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	10
Automated Classification of Coronary Plaque on Intravascular Ultrasound by Deep Classifier Cascades	10
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Selective Subnucleus Ultrasound Stimulation Induces Synaptic Potentiation in the Mouse Hippocampus	10
Interaction of Acoustic Waves With Spin Waves Using a GHz Operating GaN/Si SAW Device With a Ni/NiFeSi Layer Between Its IDTs	10
Advancing Carbon Fiber Composite Inspection: Deep Learning-Enabled Defect Localization and Sizing via 3-D U-Net Segmentation of Ultrasonic Data	10