BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown the feasibility of peripheral arterial ultrasound angioplasty. METHODS AND RESULTS In this report, we describe the use of percutaneous therapeutic ultrasound for coronary angioplasty. In vitro, 11 postmortem, atherosclerotically occluded coronary arteries were obtained to assess catheter-delivered ultrasound for arterial recanalization as well as for ass...

Background: Periarthritis or Adhesive shoulder occurs among 7-21% of the population, which was characterized by traumatic stiff shoulders in both active and passive range of actions. The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy between Muscle energy technique (MET) and Mobilization technique (MT) coupled with ultrasound therapy in reduction of pain and increasing functional ability of subje...

Editor—We thank Drs Gayer and Palte and Prof. Kumar for this important note regarding the technical side of using ultrasound for regional anaesthesia in eye surgery. We are aware of the potential risk of ultrasound waves, especially for sensitive structures like neuroretinal tissue. Our cadaver study was intended to prove the concept of a new technique without danger to patients. We investigate...

BACKGROUND Clinical use of gene therapy is limited by the poor efficacy and accuracy of intracellular DNA delivery. Known concepts of DNA transfection have not yet become clinical routine in the treatment of human disorders. We therefore focused on new transfection methods using different forms of acoustic energy as potentially safe and topographically applicable methods for gene delivery in th...

Editor—We thank Drs Gayer and Palte and Prof. Kumar for this important note regarding the technical side of using ultrasound for regional anaesthesia in eye surgery. We are aware of the potential risk of ultrasound waves, especially for sensitive structures like neuroretinal tissue. Our cadaver study was intended to prove the concept of a new technique without danger to patients. We investigate...

Sequential ultrasound-microwave associated extraction (SUMAE) is a combination of ultrasound waves and microwaves energies in which ultrasonic extraction is used as a pretreatment. It was performed to extract essential oil from Zataria multiflora. The extraction conditions were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) and Central Composite Design (CCD). The antioxidant and antibacterial ...

In recent years, studies using ultrasound energy for cancer treatment have advanced, thus revealing the enhancement of drug effects by employing low-intensity ultrasound. Furthermore, anti-angiogenesis against tumors is now attracting attention as a new cancer treatment. Therefore, we focused on the biological effects and the enhancement of drug effects brought by this low-intensity ultrasound ...

In therapeutic ultrasound applications, accurate ultrasound output intensities are crucial because the physiological effects of therapeutic ultrasound are very sensitive to the intensity and duration of these applications. Although radiation force balance is a benchmark technique for measuring ultrasound intensity and power, it is costly, difficult to operate, and compromised by noise vibration...

The use of ultrasound is a new method to enhance convection drying. However, there little information in the literature on improvement convective heat transfer caused by ultrasound. Therefore, transport during ultrasound-assisted heating small samples hybrid dryer was experimentally examined. A Biot number regime considered. results confirmed great enhancement due application Due ultrasound, ex...

Background and Aims: Production of acoustic cavitation by sonication has been recently recommended as a targeted treatment. The experimental results from studies indicate that the activity of cavitation generated by bi- or multi-frequency ultrasound irradiation is higher than that caused by single frequency irradiation. In this study, effects dual (1 MHz and 40 kHz) and single frequency soni...