Electronic Resource
Palo Alto, Calif.
:
Annual Reviews
Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
6 (2004), S. 229-248
ISSN:
1523-9829
Source:
Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff
Topics:
Technology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Ultrasound is used widely in medicine as both a diagnostic and therapeutic tool. Through both thermal and nonthermal mechanisms, ultrasound can produce a variety of biological effects in tissues in vitro and in vivo. This chapter provides an overview of the fundamentals of key nonthermal mechanisms for the interaction of ultrasound with biological tissues. Several categories of mechanical bioeffects of ultrasound are then reviewed to provide insight on the range of ultrasound bioeffects in vivo, the relevance of these effects to diagnostic imaging, and the potential application of mechanical bioeffects to the design of new therapeutic applications of ultrasound in medicine.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.bioeng.6.040803.140126
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