Intense Focused Ultrasound Can Reliably Induce Sensations in Human Test Subjects in a Manner Correlated With the Density of Their Mechanoreceptors

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-90

  Dickey, Trevor C ^a   Tych, Rowen ^a   Kliot, Michel ^a   Loeser, John D ^a,b   Pederson, Kristin ^a   Mourad, Pierre D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Intense focused ultrasound; Mechanoreceptors; Sensation; Tactile sensitivity

Indexed keywords

FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTORS; NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION; SENSATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN SURFACES; TACTILE SENSITIVITY; TWO-POINT;

TISSUE;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTENSE FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TWO POINT DISCRIMINATION; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055186420     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.09.020     Document Type: Article

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