[Diagnostic ultrasound: biological effects and potential risks].
All competent scientific groups and institutions involved in ultrasound bioeffect research have accepted the safety of diagnostic ultrasound. If, however, bioeffects have been produced by the use of higher intensities, such effects had been caused by heat production or cavitation. Nevertheless, one has to face the fact that individuals have been successfully doubting this assumption of safety. They succeeded in formulating hypotheses which cannot be disproved at all or at short notice. This holds good especially for any possible unspecified late effects. Such effects, however, can never be excluded in any technical innovation. These remarks refer to all diagnostic ultrasound applications except Doppler blood flow measurements, since for the latter techniques no sufficient knowledge is yet available on possible bioeffects.
Rott
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Institut für Humangenetik, Erlangen.
D006801:Humans; D012106:Research; D012307:Risk Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000009:adverse effects*
Diagnostischer Ultraschall: Biologische Wirkungen und potentielle Risiken.