Affiliation:
1. Langenfeld, Germany, Richrather Straße 40
2. Centre for Ultrasound and Prenatal Medicine, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Abstract
AbstractThe “Ordinance on Protection Against the Harmful Effects of Non-Ionizing Radiation in Human Applications” will go into effect at the beginning of 2021 1. § 10 of this ordinance prohibits non-medical fetal ultrasound exposure thereby resulting in uncertainty, particularly among affected patients, with respect to the generally accepted theory regarding the lack of ultrasound side effects. Although not a single study has shown a detrimental effect on fetal or child development following exposure to ultrasound, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety has justified the ban with the purely hypothetical possibility of an unidentified side effect. The first part of the following study shows which ultrasound-induced biophysical effects are known and which dose-dependent threshold values must be taken into consideration. In particular, the study focuses on the well-researched heat effect with some in vivo measurements in humans showing that the actual temperature increase is less than the theoretically calculated values. The planned second part of this study will discuss the non-thermal effects and present the most important epidemiological studies.
Subject
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
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