Why we should care about soft tissue interfaces when applying ultrasonic diathermy: an experimental and computer simulation study
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- 作者：Thaís Pionório Omena ; Aldo José Fontes-Pereira…
- 关键词：Ultrasonic therapy ; Ultrasound ; Diathermy ; Evidence ; based practice ; Practice ; research gap
- 刊名：Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：5
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1855KB
- 刊物主题：Ultrasound; Imaging / Radiology;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：2050-5736
- 卷排序：5
文摘
BackgroundOne goal of therapeutic ultrasound is enabling heat generation in tissue. Ultrasound application protocols typically neglect these processes of absorption and backscatter/reflection at the skin/fat, fat/muscle, and muscle/bone interfaces. The aim of this study was to investigate the heating process at interfaces close to the transducer and the bone with the aid of computer simulation and tissue-mimicking materials (phantoms).