Table 2.
Ultrasound Parameters for Therapeutic Ultrasound.
Therapeutic Ultrasound Technique | Ref. | Transducer | Center Freq. | Power (W) | Duty Cycle (%) | PRF | PNP (MPa) |
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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.