Introduction to the special issue on therapeutic ultrasound
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Introduction to the special issue on therapeutic ultrasound.
In the 1950s, the brothers William and Francis Fry treated a number of patients for Parkinson’s disease by focusing high intensity ultrasound on the brains of patients after some part their skull was removed. Local thermal ablations were created in targeted areas of brain and these treatments were shown to be beneficial to the patients. At the same time, in the former USSR, the team of A.K. Bur...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.4813105