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. 2020 Feb 27;20(5):1288. doi: 10.3390/s20051288

Table 2.

Ultrasound Parameters for Therapeutic Ultrasound.

Therapeutic Ultrasound Technique Ref. Transducer Center Freq. Power (W) Duty Cycle (%) PRF PNP (MPa)
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound [33,44,104,105,106,107,108,109,110] ExAblate 4000 High Intensity
Focused Ultrasound headsystem
(InSightec, Inc, Tirat Carmel, Israel);
H-102 (Sonic Concepts, Bothell, WA, USA);
Custom transducer
(Blatek, Inc., State College, PA, USA)
220 kHz–1.51 MHz 0–550 2.5–50 1–1000 Hz 1.2–3.2
Histotripsy & Microtripsy [38,39,40,111,112,113,114] Spherical focused transducer,
18-element therapy transducer
(Imasonic, Besancon, France)
1–1.2 MHz - 0.1–18 5–1000 Hz 2–35

Abbreviations: PRF—Pulse Repetition Frequency, PNP—Peak Negative Pressure.