At present, ultrasound radiation is broadly employed in medicine for both diagnostic and
therapeutic purposes at various frequencies and intensities. In this review article, we focus …

Recent advances in ultrasound (US) have shown its great potential in biomedical
applications as diagnostic and therapeutic tools. The coupling of US-assisted drug delivery …

The purpose of this study was to develop a unified model capable of explaining the
mechanisms of interaction of ultrasound and biological tissue at both the diagnostic …

Objective: To measure the health of a representative sample of the population of the United
Kingdom by using the EuroQoL EQ-5D questionnaire. Design: Stratified random sample …

Manipulation of biological cells by acoustic radiation forces is often motivated by its
improved biocompatibility relative to alternative available methods. On the other hand, it is …

Ultrasound has an ever-increasing role in the delivery of therapeutic agents, including
genetic material, protein and chemotherapeutic agents. Cavitating gas bodies, such as …

Ultrasound imaging is one of the most important and widely used diagnostic tools in modern
medicine, second only to the conventional x-ray. Although considered a mature field …

It has long been shown that therapeutic ultrasound can be used effectively to ablate solid
tumors, and a variety of cancers are presently being treated in the clinic using these types of …

Modern sophisticated ultrasonographic equipment is capable of delivering substantial levels
of acoustic energy into the body when used at maximum outputs. The risk of producing …

Sonoporation, or the use of ultrasound in the presence of cavitation nuclei to induce plasma
membrane perforation, is well considered as an emerging physical approach to facilitate the …