Thermal and other non-cavitational mechanisms

Therapeutic Ultrasound: Mechanisms to Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 7-38

  O’Brien, William D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRASONICS;

BIO-EFFECTS; BIOEFFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; IMAGE PRODUCTION; SCIENTIFIC BASIS; THERMAL AND NON-THERMAL MECHANISMS; ULTRASOUND INDUCED EFFECTS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

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