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Record W2238815934 · doi:10.1093/ptj/82.11.1144

Ultrasound Device Calibration

2002· letter· en· W2238815934 on OpenAlexaffabout
R. G. Hussey

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysical Therapy · 2002
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicUltrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
Canadian institutionsHealth Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCalibrationUltrasoundMedicineBiomedical engineeringRadiologyMathematicsStatistics

Abstract

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To the Editor: I am writing concerning “A Calibration Study of Therapeutic Ultrasound Units” in the March 2002 issue of Physical Therapy. This article addresses a number of important areas of concern in the use of therapeutic ultrasound in physical therapy. I was pleased to see this matter addressed in a major physical therapy journal. In the past I have noticed that the terms “ultrasonic intensity” and “power” sometimes have been used interchangeably in the physical therapy community, and this appears to be the case in this article. In addition, some of the information in this article is not correct, and this may have led to some incorrect conclusions. First, contrary to what was stated in the article, the standards for ultrasound therapy devices do not require an ultrasonic output accuracy of ±20% of the intensity set in the United States and of ±30% of the intensity set in Canada and by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The current standards for ultrasonic therapy devices in the United States1 and in Canada2 and as set by the IEC3 all require an accuracy of ±20% on the indicated ultrasonic output power. The standards of the IEC and the ones used in Canada also require a ±20% accuracy for the effective radiating area (ERA). The US standard requires only that the error in the ERA be indicated.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.053
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.053
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0110.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.009

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations2
Published2002
Admission routes2
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