Originally Posted by Kyrpa
For me it looks like confirmed the 1 MHz application needs to be accompanied with external heat source for the temperature to be consistent.
No matter the radius of the circulation, these fluctuations occur when we chance the focus few centimeter away. The shaft should be maintained in target temperature no matter what.
Now I am thinking of introducing two rice socks burying the other half completely while focusing on other half with US.
The rice sock support seems like a must now. When I did this test last time it was mostly underwater in the tub and the 1mhz was more stable than 3mhz. Also this test now the gel was drying up and to reapply increase the variability a lot. Moving gel around to push back to target spot cause temp drops. So having enough gel is important.
I am not sure yet about the radius of circulation because if you look at this area of table below why or how can it drop from 109 to 104.5 or so in around 15 seconds of starting swing motion. After resuming small circles it took 20 secs to recover 106 or 30 secs to 107 but about a min to get back up to 108. Only in this instance.
min temp
9.1 108.5
9.2 104.5 doing large 4 inch swings
9.3 105.4
9.4 105.8 small circles again to recover temp
9.5 106
10 107.2
10.1 105.5
10.2 106.3
10.3 106.5
10.4 107.8
10.5 108.5
In the second instance when had to reapply gel, temp dropped from 108.5 to 104 in 30 secs, and 100.5 in 50 secs ( not sure how this is possible also as cooldown ramp it is not this steep drop, at least stays at 101 for a minute) but recovered to 108.7 in 30 secs, which supports your theory more.
11.5 108.5
12 106.7
12.1 104.7 reapplying gel
12.2 104
12.3 103
12.4 100.5
12.5 104.6 transducer back on
13 107.2
13.1 108.7
13.2 106
13.3 107.1
13.4 106.5 moving gel around
13.5 104.7
14 108.5
However, I think that looking at the cooldown ramps, there is some doubt in my mind as to how ‘real’ these high 107, 108, etc temps are. Because how can tissue cool this down so fast? In 1 minute already lost 8 degrees for 1mhz and 3 degrees for 3mhz. I am no expert but I am not sure about this fast cooldown. It is fishy. I have some suspicion that thermometer tip is reacting some way with US wave that affects only the tip of the sensor for very short periods.
The most real thing from this data now that I think about it is the residual heat left after US is removed to find evidence of actual heat efficacy. Looking at the data in table below for cooldown ramp. Comparing below:
COOLDOWN
min 1mhz 2w 3mhz 2w
0 108.5 106.1
0.1 104.9 105.2
0.2 104.2 104.5
0.3 103.1 104.2
0.4 102.4 104.2
0.5 102 103.8
1 101.3 103.1 3mhz better retaining temp at 1min mark
1.1 101.3 102.3
1.2 101.3 102
1.3 101.1 101.8
1.4 101.1 101.8
1.5 101.1 101.5
2 101.3 101.1 at 2min now both are about same temp retention
2.1 101 100.9
2.2 101.1 100.2
2.3 100.8 100 now 1mhz is better
2.4 100.6 100
2.5 100.6 99.7
3 100.4 99.9
3.1 100.4 100
3.2 100.4 99.9
3.3 100.4 99.7
3.4 100.4 99.7
3.5 100.2 99.5
4 100.2 99.3
4.1 100.2 99.2 1mhz has better long term temp retention it seems
4.2 100 99.1
I am so confused as to what is happening. With this results above. What is better long or short term heat retention?