Title :
On the efficiency growth of waveguide tools for ultrasonic sanitation of body wounds and cavities
Author :
Pedder, Valeriy V. ; Khmelev, Vladimir N. ; Vagner, Vladimir D. ; Khmelev, Maxim V. ; Pedder, Alexander V. ; Shkuro, Yury V. ; Bunin, Maxim A. ; Polanskaya, Irina B.
Author_Institution :
METROMED, Ltd., Sci. & Tech. Enterprise, Omsk
Abstract :
Unique sets of waveguide tools have been designed and implemented into clinical practice. These waveguide tools allow increasing the efficacy of a low-frequency ultrasonic (LFUS) treatment for body wounds and cavities at the expense of ensuring maximum possible energy input into the LFUS treated liquid medium by means of producing with a radiating end of an operating section of the waveguide tool a developed volume of a cavitational liquid area simultaneously interacting with distal and side sites of infection nidus wound tissues. The above mentioned effect is attained due to the design of a radiating end of an operative section that is a kind of a polyhedron, e.g. a wedge, a pyramid, a tetrahedron, their each edge being a radiating element.
Keywords :
acoustic waveguides; biomedical ultrasonics; cavitation; patient treatment; wounds; body wounds; cavitational liquid area; infection nidus wound tissues; liquid medium; low-frequency ultrasonic treatment; polyhedron; ultrasonic sanitation; waveguide tools; Acceleration; Acoustic waveguides; Acoustic waves; Aerosols; Conferences; Liquid waveguides; Medical treatment; Microorganisms; Ultrasonic imaging; Wounds; a waveguide tool; a wound; medication; ultrasound;
Conference_Titel :
Electron Devices and Materials, 2008. EDM 2008. 9th International Workshop and Tutorials on
Conference_Location :
Novosibirsk
Print_ISBN :
978-5-7782-0893-3
DOI :
10.1109/SIBEDM.2008.4585911