PHYSICAL FACTORS INVOLVED IN ULTRASONICALLY INDUCED CHANGES IN LIVING SYSTEMS - .2. AMPLITUDE DURATION RELATIONS AND THE EFFECT OF HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE FOR NERVE TISSUE
PHYSICAL FACTORS INVOLVED IN ULTRASONICALLY INDUCED CHANGES IN LIVING SYSTEMS - .2. AMPLITUDE DURATION RELATIONS AND THE EFFECT OF HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE FOR NERVE TISSUE
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DOI:
10.1121/1.1906774
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发表时间:
1951-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
WULFF, VJ
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作者:
FRY, WJ;TUCKER, D;WULFF, VJ
The results of expts. with frogs under a hydrostatic pressure demonstrate that cavitation is not an important factor in the mechanism of production of paralysis of the hind legs by ultrasonic irradiation over the lumbar enlargement region of the spinal cord. A linear relation exists between the reciprocal of the minimum exposure time for paralysis and the acoustic amplitude. This result is readily described in terms of a one factor rate process. On the basis of this experimentally determined relation, it is shown that time rate of change of temp. cannot be correlated with the observations. It is concluded on the basis of a theoretical calculation that absorption of ultrasound at interfaces in the spinal cord does not result in minute hot regions. Further work on summation of subparalytic doses, spaced apart at various time intervals, indicates that the recovery process following exposure to a subparalytic dose of ultrasonic radiation may not be a monotonic function of time.