ter Haar G
Department of Physics, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT, UK.
Eur J Ultrasound. 1999 Mar;9(1):3-9. doi: 10.1016/s0929-8266(99)00013-0.
Therapeutic ultrasound has been in use for many years. Early applications were those for which tissue heating was the goal, and so it was used for soft tissue injuries such as may be incurred during sport. More recently, attention has been drawn both to high intensity focused beams that may be used for thermal ablation of selected regions, and also to low intensity fields that appear to be able to stimulate physiological processes, such as tissue repair, without biologically significant temperature rises. Ultrasonic tools are used for therapeutic effect in dentistry and are being investigated for use in thrombolysis. This paper reviews the various therapeutic applications of ultrasound.
治疗性超声已应用多年。早期的应用旨在实现组织加热，因此它被用于治疗软组织损伤，比如运动中可能出现的损伤。最近，人们的注意力既集中在可用于对选定区域进行热消融的高强度聚焦束上，也集中在似乎能够刺激诸如组织修复等生理过程而不会引起具有生物学意义的温度升高的低强度场。超声工具在牙科中用于治疗效果，并且正在研究其在溶栓方面的应用。本文综述了超声的各种治疗应用。
