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Cerium-activated silica (SO,) glasses were prepared by plasma torch chemical vapor deposition (CVD). In Ce-doped SiO, glasses, most Ce exists as Ce4+ ions; the remaining small amount of Ce3+ ions exhibits a broad fluorescence spectrum with a large Stokes shift, ~9 6 0 0 cm-', from the excitation spectrum peak of 324 nm. Aluminum and phosphorus codoping considerably increases the Ce3+ ratio and shifts the peaks of both spectra to shorter wavelengths. P codoping is the more effective way to achieve this result and in some cases produces an absorption spectrum similar to that of a Ce-doped phosphate glass. These findings are consistent with the solvation shell model for codoping, as previously proposed. To codope P, a soot remelting method was devised to deal with the highly volatile P205.

Undesirable temperature rise at the muscle-bone interface has been one of the major problems during ultrasound hyperthermia treatment. In this study, we examined by both computer calculation and phantom experiment the cause of this problem. Ultrasound penetrates a bone in two different waveforms, longitudinal and transversal. The transmission coefficient of these two waves vary greatly with the incident angle. From both theoretical and experimental results, the incident angle dependency of the interface heat was confirmed. When the incident angle is less than the critical angle of the longitudinal wave, the main cause of the temperature elevation is the absorption of the longitudinal wave in the bone. When the incident angle is larger than the critical angle of the longitudinal wave, the transversal wave becomes the major cause of the heat generation. At the incident angles larger than the critical angle of the transversal wave, no temperature rise is produced by the absorption of the ultrasound at the bone; the incident longitudinal wave, strengthened by the reflected wave, is absorbed in the muscle just in front of the bone. The heat generated in the muscle is transported to the interface so that the temperature of the interface and bone increases slightly.

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