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The extensive employment of ultrasonic methods in medicine is, in general, based on the presumption of their harmlessness. Nevertheless, the expansion of ultrasonic diagnostic methods in obstetrics has once more raised the question of their safety. It has been demonstrated in several studies that, under certain conditions, biological tissues may be especially susceptible to damage induced by ultrasound. Embryonic tissues are more sensitive to the influences of different physical and chemical factors than differentiated tissues. That is why embryos at different stages of development have frequently been used as experimental objects for the assessment of the biological effectiveness of ultrasound.
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Hrazdira, I., Doskočil, M., Dvořák, M., Štastná, J. (1988). An Experimental Approach to the Problem of Possible Embryotoxicity Due to Biomedical Ultrasound. In: Carson, E.R., Kneppo, P., Krekule, I. (eds) Advances in Biomedical Measurement. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1025-9_13
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