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Analysis of Relations Between Transmission Time of Therapeutic Ultrasound and Pulse Transit Time

치료용 초음파의 투과시간과 PTT의 상관관계 분석

  • 김성민 (건국대학교 의료생명대학 의학공학부) ;
  • 이주환 (건국대학교 의료생명대학 의학공학부) ;
  • 최병철 (춘해대학 의료공학과) ;
  • 정회승 (주성대학 의용전자기기연구소) ;
  • 배하석 (이화여자대학교 의학전문대학원 재활의학교실)
  • Published : 2008.12.01
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Abstract

Recently, ultrasound is becoming a universal way of treatment when it comes to clinic. The thermal effect of therapeutic ultrasound can raise the temperature of tissue without damage and thus increases the flow rate, and this leads to the oxygen transportation velocity of peripheral tissue and ultimately facilitates the metabolism. The purpose of this research is analyzing relations between PTT and transmission time of therapeutic ultrasound, and in this study the PTT variation due to respective transmission time of ultrasound upon 17 normal persons was measured and as a result, it was observed that PTT increases as transmission time of therapeutic ultrasound

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