Recent advances in high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), which was developed in the
1940s as a viable thermal tissue ablation approach, have increased its popularity. In clinics …

Compared with traditional methods, cavitation-based processing technology has received
extensive attention for its low energy consumption and high processing efficiency. The …

Power Ultrasonics: Applications of High-Intensity Ultrasound, Second Edition provides a
comprehensive reference on the fundamentals, processing, engineering, medical, food and …

Acoustic characterization of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) fields is important both
for the accurate prediction of ultrasound induced bioeffects in tissues and for the …

A theoretical approach is developed to calculate the radiation force of an arbitrary acoustic
beam on an elastic sphere in a liquid or gas medium. First, the incident beam is described …

Focused ultrasound (FUS) has been employed on a wide range of clinical applications to
safely and non-invasively achieve desired effects that have previously required invasive and …

The nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug sodium diclofenac (DC) is an emerging water
pollutant which resists conventional wastewater treatments. Here the sonophotocatalytic …

This review paper examines some of the issues relating to calibration and measurement of
therapeutic medical ultrasonic equipment (MUE). This is not intended to be an all …

For the characterization of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) fields, hydrophone
measurements should be performed in water in the whole range of the radiated power; …

In one embodiment, there is provided in an ultrasound wave generating apparatus a low
output impedance transistor based driver circuit that has the ability to apply a drive signal at …