Overview of Therapeutic Ultrasound Applications and Safety Considerations
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- 1 April 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
- Vol. 31 (4) , 623-634
- https://doi.org/10.7863/jum.2012.31.4.623
Abstract
Applications of ultrasound in medicine for therapeutic purposes have been accepted and beneficial uses of ultrasonic biological effects for many years. Low‐power ultrasound of about 1 MHz has been wi...Keywords
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