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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2008 Jan 22;34(5):834–840. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.10.016

Table 1.

Data for the different frequencies tested.

Frequency (MHz) Pressure amplitude (MPa)* N locations (threshold) Reference(s) N locations (histology) Reference
0.26 0.1 – 0.6 54 1, 2 7 2
0.69 0.4 – 1.5 60 3, 4 8 4
1.50 0.4 – 2.6 119** 5 -- --
1.63 0.7 – 4.7 139*** 6, 7 13**** 7
2.04 0.3 – 2.3 40 N/A 8 N/A
*

Estimates in the brain;

**

30s sonications in rats, 3T MRI; all other data acquired in rabbits with 20s sonications, 1.5T MRI;

***

100 ms bursts; all other data used 10 ms bursts;

****

Animals sacrificed 72h after sonication; all other cases, animals were sacrificed 4h after sonication