14 Medical Applications of Ultrasonic Energy
14.1 INTRODUCTION
The brevity of this chapter is in no way indicative of the importance of ultrasonics in the field of medicine. Many tens of thousands of published articles and hundreds of books [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] on the subject are available. From the earliest days of the availability of modern ultrasonic technology, in the 1920s, researchers started to investigate both high- and low-power interactions with a diverse array of biological materials. Research into medical applications of ultrasound is usually said to have started with the work of Wood and Loomis [1], who made a comprehensive study of both the physical and biological effects of ultrasound on biological media. An extensive literature ...
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