ULTRASONICS

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Wolfgang Sachse, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University,
212 Kimball Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-1503, USA
Fax: +1 607 255 9179; e-mail: ultras@cornell.edu

Associate Editors
Professor Arthur G. Every, School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, PO WITS 2050, South Africa
Fax: +27 11 717 6879; e-mail: everya@physics.wits.ac.za

Dr. Gail R. ter Haar, Joint Physics Department, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital, Downs Road,
Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PT, UK
Fax: +44 208 643 3812; e-mail: gail@icr.ac.uk

Dr. Sigrun Hirsekorn, Fraunhofer Institut, Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren (IZFP), Universität, Gebäude 37,
D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Fax: +49 681 9302 5903; e-mail: sigrun.hirsekorn@izfp.fraunhofer.de

Professor Minoru K. Kurosawa, Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta,
Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
Fax: +81 (0)45 924 5593; e-mail: mkur@ip.titech.ac.jp

Professor Peter A. Lewin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering,
Mail Stop: ECE, 7-727, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Fax: +1 215 895 4983; e-mail: lewin@ece.drexel.edu

Professor Peter B. Nagy, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati,
745 Baldwin Hall, P.O. Box 210070, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0070, USA
Fax: +1 513 556 5038; e-mail: peter.nagy@uc.edu

Professor Dr. Sadayuki Ueha, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta,
Midori-Ku, Yokohama, 226-8503, Japan
Fax: +81 45 924 5961; e-mail: ultra@sonic.pi.titech.ac.jp

Aims and scope Ultrasonics – Sonochemistry (ISSN 1350-4177). Subscription

Ultrasonics is the world’s leading journal dedicated to the whole
science and technology of ultrasound. Contributed material
is welcomed in the following fields: elasticity, anelasticity and
magneto-elasticity; ultrasonic sensors for process monitoring;
nondestructive materials characterization; generation and detec-
tion of ultrasound; ultrasonic NDE and NDT; SAW devices;
signal processing; acousto-optics; physics of ultrasound; ultra-
sonic wave propagation; ultrasonic visualization; ultrasonic
microscopy; physics and technology of ultrasound in medicine
and biology; high-power ultrasonics; actuators and motors;
industrial ultrasonics; underwater ultrasonics.
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