Use of focused ultrasound for stimulation of nerve structures.

Pulsed focused ultrasound can stimulate the receptor and conductive nerve structures of humans and animals as well as the neurons of the central nervous system of invertebrates. The possibility of a wide practical use of this method in medicine and physiology is considered. For example, the stimulating ability of focused ultrasound is applied to the diagnosis of neurological diseases, to the study of skin and tissue sensitivity in man, to the diagnosis of hearing disorders, and to the introduction of auditory information to the deaf with certain forms of hearing pathology. The factors that affect focused ultrasound as a stimulus for the irritation of nerve structures are discussed.

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