OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control is 8. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Multitarget Transcranial Ultrasound Therapy in Small Animals Based on Phase-Only Acoustic Holographic Lens	87
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	80
Adaptive Models for Multi-Covariate Imaging of Sub-Resolution Targets (MIST)	76
Adaptation of Range-Doppler Algorithm for Efficient Beamforming of Monostatic and Multistatic Ultrasound Signals	63
Advances in Ulstrasound Technology	58
Multi-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging Fusion Method Based on Wavelet Transform for Guided Screw Insertion	57
Front Cover	56
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	52
A Deep Learning Approach for Segmentation, Classification, and Visualization of 3-D High-Frequency Ultrasound Images of Mouse Embryos	48
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy for Cancer Imaging	44
Ultrasonic Transducer From Piezoelectric Polymer Multilayer Through Electrophoretic Deposition for Photoacoustic Imaging	42
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	38
Table of contents	37
Concave Array Ultrasonic Transducer From Multilayer Piezoelectric Ceramic for Photoacoustic Imaging	37
Dual-Frequency CMUT Arrays for Multiband Ultrasound Imaging Applications	36
Dissemination of the Acoustic Pascal: The Role and Experiences of a National Metrology Institute	35
Hydrophone Spatial Averaging Correction for Acoustic Exposure Measurements From Arrays—Part II: Validation for ARFI and Pulsed Doppler Waveforms	35
Hydrophone Measurements for Biomedical Ultrasound Applications: A Review	35
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	34
Table of Contents	34
Contrast-Enhanced Imaging of Histotripsy Bubble Clouds Using Chirp-Coded Excitation and Volterra Filtering	33
Virtual Source Synthetic Aperture for Accurate Lateral Displacement Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography	33
Image Quality Enhancement Using a Deep Neural Network for Plane Wave Medical Ultrasound Imaging	31
Measurement System for Piezoelectric Resonance Impedance Spectroscopy Under Combined AC and High-Voltage DC Loading	31
Contrast-Free Super-Resolution Power Doppler (CS-PD) Based on Deep Neural Networks	31

A High-Performance 3-D Imaging Technique Using Simultaneous Azimuth and Elevation Compounding	30
Experimental Study of Transverse Mode Suppression on Wideband Hetero Acoustic Layer Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator	30
Spurious Modes in Laterally Excited Bulk Acoustic Resonators (XBARs): Analysis and Suppression	29
Spatiotemporal Deconvolution of Hydrophone Response for Linear and Nonlinear Beams—Part II: Experimental Validation	29
Ultrasound Super-Resolution Flow Measurement of Suspensions in Narrow Channels	29
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	28
Personalized Cancer Therapeutics Using Photoacoustic Imaging-Guided Sonodynamic Therapy	28
The Ever-Growing Field of High-Frequency Biomedical Ultrasound	28
High-Frequency Ultrasound Activation of Perfluorocarbon Nanodroplets for Treatment of Glaucoma	28
Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Learning in Ultrasonic Crack Characterization	27
Development of Tunable Ferroelectric Ceramic Capacitors	27
Five Low-Noise Stable Oscillators Referenced to the Same Multimode AlN/Si MEMS Resonator	26
Elimination of Nontargeted Photoacoustic Signals for Combined Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging	26
Table of Contents	26
A MEMS Real-Time Clock With Single-Temperature Calibration and Deterministic Jitter Cancellation	25
Adhesive Porosity Analysis of Composite Adhesive Joints Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves	25
Multidimensional Clutter Filtering of Aperture Domain Data for Improved Blood Flow Sensitivity	25
Table of Contents	25
Equivalent Circuit Model for a Large Array of Coupled Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers With High Emission Performance	24
Wireless Power Transmission for Implantable Medical Devices Using Focused Ultrasound and a Miniaturized 1-3 Piezoelectric Composite Receiving Transducer	24
Improved Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Based on Microbubble Uncoupling via Transmit Excitation	24
A Low-Voltage Cylindrical Traveling Wave Ultrasonic Motor Incorporating Multilayered Piezoelectric Ceramics	24
Array Transducer Design: A Vibrant Research Theme in Medical Ultrasonics	24
Microwave Acoustic Attenuation in CTGS Single Crystals	23
3-D High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging by Piezo-Driving a Single-Element Transducer	23
Table of Contents	23
Evaluation of Performance Tradeoffs When Using Mechanically Swept 1-D Linear Arrays for 3-D DCE-US	23
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	23
A Nonlinear Pulse Shaping Method Using Resonant Piezoelectric MEMS Devices	23
Table of Contents	22
[Front cover]	22
Improving Transcranial Acoustic Targeting: The Limits of CT-Based Velocity Estimates and the Role of MR	22
Spotlight Issue on Frontiers in Photoacoustic Imaging	22
Linear Signal Cancellation of Nonlinear Pulsing Schemes in a Verasonics Research Scanner	21
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	21
Passive Cavitation Mapping by Cavitation Source Localization From Aperture-Domain Signals—Part I: Theory and Validation Through Simulations	21
Table of Contents	21
Design and Implementation of a Modular and Scalable Research Platform for Ultrasound Computed Tomography	21
Head-to-Head Comparison of Acoustic Properties of Lead-Free and PZT-Based HIFU Transducers Operating at 12 MHz	20
Table of Contents	20
Table of Contents	20
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	20
Advancing the Frontiers in Photoacoustic Imaging	20
Table of contents	19
Real-Time Visualization of a Focused Ultrasound Beam Using Ultrasonic Backscatter	19
Design and Evaluation of a Weighted Periodic Sparse Array for Low-Complexity 1-D Phased Array Ultrasound Imaging Systems	19
Front Cover	19
A Prototype System With Custom-Designed RX ICs for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging	19
Feasibility of Hologram-Assisted Bilateral Blood–Brain Barrier Opening in Non-Human Primates	19
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	19

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	19
Compositional Tuning of the Aurivillius Phase Material Bi₅Ti_3−2xFe_1+xNb_x	19
Table of Contents	19
An Improved Chirp Coded Excitation Based on Compression Pulse Weighting Method in Endoscopic Ultrasound Imaging	18
Enhanced Needle Visualization With Reflection Tuned Apodization Based on the Radon Transform for Ultrasound Imaging	18
Feature Fusion for Diagnosis of Atypical Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Contrast- Enhanced Ultrasound	18
Minimum Variance Combined With Modified Delay Multiply-and-Sum Beamforming for Plane-Wave Compounding	18
Observation of 990-MHz Optical Oscillation From Light Emitters Excited by High-Order Harmonics of Surface Acoustic Waves	18
Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy Applied to the Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Diseases: An In Vivo Multicenter Clinical Study	18
High-Attenuation Backing Layer for Miniaturized Ultrasound Imaging Transducer	18
Single-Beam Acoustic Tweezers for Cell Biology: Molecular to In Vivo Level	18
User Parameter-Free Minimum Variance Beamformer in Medical Ultrasound Imaging	18
An Averaging Method for Phase Noise Studies of Quartz Phononic Frequency Combs	18
Spatial Coherence Approaches to Distinguish Suspicious Mass Contents in Fundamental and Harmonic Breast Ultrasound Images	18
Table of Contents	18
Joint Blind Deconvolution and Robust Principal Component Analysis for Blood Flow Estimation in Medical Ultrasound Imaging	18
Machine-to-Machine Transfer Function in Deep Learning-Based Quantitative Ultrasound	18
Nonlinear Acoustic Holography With Adaptive Sampling	18
Virtual Real-Time for High PRF Multiline Vector Doppler on ULA-OP 256	17
Effect of Curie Temperature on Ferroelectric Tunnel FET and Its RF/Analog Performance	17
Nonlinear Finite Element Calculations of Layered SAW Resonators	17
Reverberation Clutter Suppression Using 2-D Spatial Coherence Analysis	17
Treatment Planning and Aberration Correction Algorithm for HIFU Ablation of Renal Tumors	17
Fully Automatic Dual-Probe Lung Ultrasound Scanning Robot for Screening Triage	17
Robust Scatterer Number Density Segmentation of Ultrasound Images	17
Resolution and Speckle Reduction in Cardiac Imaging	17
Passive Cavitation Imaging Artifact Reduction Using Data-Adaptive Spatial Filtering	17
Retrospective Transmit Beamforming and Coherent Plane-Wave Compounding for Microvascular Doppler Imaging: A Comparison Study	17
Radiation Characteristics of Cranial Leaky Lamb Waves	17
Optimal Design of TSM Langasite Resonator for High-Temperature Applications: A Review	16
Automatic Probe Localization in Multiaperture Ultrasound by Radon Domain Signal Matching	16
Ultrasound-Based Registration for the Computer-Assisted Navigated Percutaneous Scaphoid Fixation	16
Quantifying Valve Regurgitation Using 3-D Doppler Ultrasound Images and Deep Learning	16
Excitation of Single-Mode Shear-Horizontal Guided Waves and Evaluation of Their Sensitivity to Very Shallow Crack-Like Defects	16
Investigating Substrate Loss in MEMS Acoustic Resonators and On-Chip Inductors	16
Spatially Variant Ultrasound Attenuation Mapping Using a Regularized Linear Least-Squares Approach	16
Ultrasonic Transducer With Increased Exposure Power and Frequency up to 100 kHz	15
Efficient 3-D Finite Element Modeling of Periodic XBAR Resonators	15
A New Methodology for the Assessment of Very Low Concentrations of Cells in Serous Body Fluids Based on the Count of Ultrasound Echoes Backscattered From Cells	15
PAX (Passive–Active Crossing) Method for Sub-Millimeter Coregistration of Passive Acoustic Mapping and B-Mode Images	15
Hadamard-Encoded Synthetic Transmit Aperture Imaging for Improved Lateral Motion Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography	15
Fast Thresholding of SVD Clutter Filter Using the Spatial Similarity Matrix and a Sum-Table Algorithm	15
Noninvasive Acoustic Measurements in Cylindrical Shell Containers	15
Ultrasound Frequency Mixing for Enhanced Contrast Harmonic Imaging of Microbubbles	15
A Novel Approach for the Detection of Every Significant Collapsing Bubble in Passive Cavitation Imaging	15
Ultrasound-Powered Wireless Underwater Acoustic Identification Tags for Backscatter Communication	15
Modeling the Physics of Bubble Nucleation in Histotripsy	14
Double-Stage DMAS With Fresnel Zone Filtering in Guided Waves Damage Imaging	14
Near Spurious-Free Thickness Shear Mode Lithium Niobate Resonator for Piezoelectric Power Conversion	14
Improvement of 3-D Ultrasound Spine Imaging Technique Using Fast Reconstruction Algorithm	14
Feasibility of Model-Assisted Probability of Detection Principles for Structural Health Monitoring Systems Based on Guided Waves for Fiber-Reinforced Composites	14
Self-Test of Air-Coupled Probe for Sensitivity Map Production Using Parabolic Reflector	14
Development of a Wearable Ultrasonic Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulator	14
Modeling the Effect of Anisotropy in Ultrasonic-Guided Wave Tomography	14
Fully Automated 3-D Ultrasound Segmentation of the Placenta, Amniotic Fluid, and Fetus for Early Pregnancy Assessment	14
Ultrasound Imaging With a Flexible Probe Based on Element Array Geometry Estimation Using Deep Neural Network	14
A Robust and Fast Method for 2-D Shear Wave Speed Calculation	14
L- and X-Band Dual-Frequency Synthesizer Utilizing Lithium Niobate RF-MEMS and Open-Loop Frequency Dividers	14
Frequency Dependence of Coercive Fields of [001]- and [011]-Poled Rhombohedral Pb(In_1/2Nb_1/2)O₃-Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbTiO₃ Single Crystals	14
Emerging Wearable Ultrasound Technology	14
Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer for Arterial Wall Dynamics Monitoring	14
Phase-Aberration Correction for HIFU Therapy Using a Multielement Array and Backscattering of Nonlinear Pulses	13
Comparison of Spatial Encodings for Ultrasound Imaging	13
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	13
High-Frequency, 2-mm-Diameter Forward-Viewing 2-D Array for 3-D Intracoronary Blood Flow Imaging	13
Determining the Responsivity of Air-Coupled Piezoelectric Transducers Using a Comparative Method: Theory and Experiments	13
Deep Null Space Learning Improves Dataset Recovery for High Frame Rate Synthetic Transmit Aperture Imaging	13
LVNet: Lightweight Model for Left Ventricle Segmentation for Short Axis Views in Echocardiographic Imaging	13
MCAL: An Anatomical Knowledge Learning Model for Myocardial Segmentation in 2-D Echocardiography	13
A Modular, Kerf-Minimizing Approach for Therapeutic Ultrasound Phased Array Construction	13
Table of Contents	13
Extending the Linearity of AlScN Contour-Mode Resonators Through Acoustic Metamaterials-Based Reflectors	13
Index-Rotated Fast Ultrasound Imaging of Cortical Bone Based on Predicted Velocity Model	13
Direct-Write Piezoelectric Transducers on Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Structures for Exciting and Receiving Guided Ultrasonic Waves	13
An Automated Region-Selection Method for Adaptive ALARA Ultrasound Imaging	13
Investigation of a Novel Acoustic Levitation Technique Using the Transition Period Between Acoustic Pulse Trains and Electrical Driving Signals	13
Lateral Spurious Mode Suppression in Lithium Niobate A1 Resonators	13
Evaluation of Blood Induced Influence for High-Definition Intravascular Ultrasound (HD-IVUS)	13
Multi-Task/Single-Task Joint Learning of Ultrasound BI-RADS Features	13
Real-Time Coded Excitation Imaging Using a CMUT-Based Side Looking Array for Intravascular Ultrasound	13

Sticky Hard-Sphere Model for Characterizing Tumor Microstructure via Quantitative Ultrasound	13
High-Quality Ultrafast Power Doppler Imaging Based on Spatial Angular Coherence Factor	12
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	12
Flexible PZT-Based Row-Column Addressed 2-D PMUT Array	12
Nonlinear Equivalent Circuit of High-Power Sandwich Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducer	12
A Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation Method via Temporal-Spatial Interference Magneto-Acoustic Effect: Simulation and Experimental Validation	12
An Automatic 3-D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Combined Imaging System for Human Inflammatory Arthritis	12
State-Space Model of an Electro-Mechanical-Acoustic Contactless Energy Transfer System Based on Multiphysics Networks	12
Comparative Characterization of Nonlinear Ultrasound Fields Generated by Sonalleve V1 and V2 MR-HIFU Systems	12
An Analysis of the Thermal Behavior and Effects of Circular Quartz Crystal Resonators for Microbalance Applications	12
Design of a 1-MHz Therapeutic Ultrasound Array for Small Volume Blood-Brain Barrier Opening at Cortical Targets in Macaques	12
Table of Contents	12
Reducing the Guidewire Friction for Endovascular Interventional Surgery by Radial Micro-Vibration	12
Acceleration-Based Kalman Tracking for Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging In Vivo	12
A Bayesian Filtering Approach to Multimode Separation and Retrieval of Ultrasonic Guided Waves	12
A Forward Model Incorporating Elevation-Focused Transducer Properties for 3-D Full-Waveform Inversion in Ultrasound Computed Tomography	12
Improved Ultrafast Power Doppler Imaging by Using Spatiotemporal Non-Local Means Filtering	12
Scattering Matrix Approach to Design of One-Port Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator Sensors Utilizing Reflectors as Sensing Element	12
Optical Multiplexing of Metrological Time and Frequency Signals in a Single 100-GHz-Grid Optical Channel	12
Hybrid Treatment via MHz Acoustic Waves and Plasma to Enhance Seed Germination in Mung Bean	12
Automatic Segmentation of 2-D Echocardiography Ultrasound Images by Means of Generative Adversarial Network	12
Ultrasonic Rough Crack Characterization Using Time-of-Flight Diffraction With Self-Attention Neural Network	12
Genetic Algorithm-Wavelet Transform Feature Extraction for Data-Driven Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy	12
Comparison Between Clinically Available Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPUS) and a Novel Bimodal Acoustic Signal System for Accelerating Fracture Healing	12
Unfocused Field Analysis of a Density-Tapered Spiral Array for High-Volume-Rate 3-D Ultrasound Imaging	12
Neuroprotective Effect of Ultrasound Neuromodulation on Kainic Acid- Induced Epilepsy in Mice	12
Al_0.78Sc_0.22N Lamb Wave Contour Mode Resonators	11
Material Design Strategy for Enhancement of Readback Signal Intensity in Ferroelectric Probe Data Storage	11
A Robust Backscatter Modulation Scheme for Uninterrupted Ultrasonic Powering and Back-Communication of Deep Implants	11
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Precision of Clinical 3-D Ultrasound Systems	11
Retraction Notice: New Mega-Farad Ultracapacitors	11
A Miniature Ultrasound Source for Neural Modulation	11
A Novel Negative Capacitance FinFET With Ferroelectric Spacer: Proposal and Investigation	11
Micromachining of High-Quality PMN–PT/Epoxy 1–3 Composite for High-Frequency (>30 MHz) Ultrasonic Transducer Applications	11
Polarization Inverted Ultrasound Transducer Based on Composite Structure for Tissue Harmonic and Frequency Compound Imaging	11
Macroscopic Disk Rotation by Means of Surface Acoustic Waves	11
Ultrasonic Thermometry Algorithm Based on Inverse Quadratic Function	11
Convolutional Neural Network-Based Speckle Tracking for Ultrasound Strain Elastography: An Unsupervised Learning Approach	11
A Unified Framework Combining Doppler-Based Motion Compensation, Harmonic Imaging, and Angular Coherence for High-Quality B-Mode in Ultrafast Echocardiography	11
Incorporating Gradient Similarity for Robust Time Delay Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography	11
Homodyned K-Distribution Parameter Estimation in Quantitative Ultrasound: Autoencoder and Bayesian Neural Network Approaches	11
Nanoparticle-Epoxy Composite Molding for Undeformed Acoustic Holograms With Tailored Acoustic Properties	11
The Revisited Frequency-Shift Method for Shear Wave Attenuation Computation and Imaging	11
3-D Coherent Multitransducer Ultrasound Imaging With Sparse Spiral Arrays	11
High-Power Ultrasonic Transducer for Effective Hemolysis	11
Bi-Directional Semi-Supervised Training of Convolutional Neural Networks for Ultrasound Elastography Displacement Estimation	11
Dynamic Frequency–Temperature Characteristic Modeling for Quartz Crystal Resonator Based on Improved Echo State Network	11
Dual-Scan Photoacoustic Tomography for the Imaging of Vascular Structure on Foot	11
Real-Time Full-Volume Row-Column Imaging	11
Underestimation of Flow Velocity in 2-D Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging	11
ULM-MbCNRT: In Vivo Ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy by Combining Multibranch CNN and Recursive Transformer	11
A Novel 2x2D Radial Basis Function-Based Interpolation for Short Acquisition Time and Relaxed Frame Rate Ultrasound Localization Microscopy	11
A Transverse Velocity Spectral Estimation Method for Ultrafast Ultrasound Doppler Imaging	11
Sparse Convolutional Beamforming for 3-D Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging	11
Effects of Semiconduction on Thickness-Extensional Modes of Piezoelectric Resonators	11
A High Sensitivity CMUT-Based Passive Cavitation Detector for Monitoring Microbubble Dynamics During Focused Ultrasound Interventions	11
Fatigue State Characterization of Steel Pipes Using Ultrasonic Shear Waves	11
Review of Sintering Aids in Lead-Free (K, Na)NbO₃-Based Ceramics	10
A Filter-Free Third Overtone Quartz Oscillator Based on Micromachining Technology	10
Helen D. Megaw (1907–2002) and Her Contributions to Ferroelectrics	10
A Novel Method for Rubidium Bulb Bonding and Key Characterization for Future Space Clocks	10
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	10
Corrections to “Vibrational Responses of Bound and Nonbound Targeted Lipid-Coated Single Microbubbles”	10
Front Cover	10
A Spatial Near-Field Clutter Reduction Filter Preserving Tissue Speckle in Echocardiography	10
Design and Fabrication of 15-MHz Ultrasonic Transducers Based on a Textured Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-Pb(Zr, Ti)O₃ Ceramic	10
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	10
Front Cover	10
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Spotlight Issue on Intervention Ultrasound	10
Front Cover	10
Table of Contents	10
Anisotropy of the Uniaxial Pressure Influence on Lamb and SH Wave Characteristics in a Rotated Cut of LiNbO₃ Crystal	10
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	10
Use of Intertransmission Coherence for Haze Artifact Suppression in Cardiovascular Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Imaging	10
Combining First- and Second-Order Continuity Constraints in Ultrasound Elastography	10
Front Cover	10
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Table of Contents	10
Evaluation of Hand Tendon Elastic Properties During Rehabilitation Through High-Frequency Ultrasound Shear Elastography	10
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Table of Contents	10
Design and Fabrication of Wideband Air-Coupled Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers With Varying Width Annular-Ring and Spiral Cell Structures	10
Closed-Loop Low-Rank Echocardiographic Artifact Removal	10
A Theoretical Model for Analyzing the Thickness-Shear Vibration of a Circular Quartz Crystal Plate With Multiple Concentric Ring Electrodes	9
A 500-km Cascaded White Rabbit Link for High-Performance Frequency Dissemination	9
3-D Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging of Microbubbles Trapped Using an Acoustic Vortex	9
Call for papers: Recent advances in piezoelectric materials for electromechanical transducer applications	9
Photoacoustic Impulse Response of Lipid-Coated Ultrasound Contrast Agents	9
Celebrating Our Journal’s History and Multidisciplinarity	9
Real-Time High Frame Rate Color Flow Mapping System	9
Front Cover	9
Spatiotemporal Coherence Weighting forIn VivoCardiac Photoacoustic Image Beamformation	9
Recent advances in piezoelectric materials for electromechanical transducer applications	9
3-D Ultrasound Imaging Using Helicoid Array Transducers	9