
How can we use sound waves to eliminate infections?
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The Benefits of Ultrasound for Bacterial Infection
The way in which bubbles expand and they shrink changes based on how much ultrasound pressure you apply. Violent shaking of bubbles is what will break up the infection, but it wouldn't hurt me and my precious, precious bladder that I want to keep safe. Using ultrasound as an image guided kind of treatment, we can also use the echoes that micro bubbles emit when they're hit with ultrasound to also monitor how effective our therapies are.
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