Acoustic cavitation events during microsecond irradiation of aqueous solutions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2970, Issue , 1997, Pages 4-9

  Amurthur, Badrinarayan S ^a   Viator, John A ^a   Prahl, Scott A ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Acoustic diffraction; Bubble; Photospallation; Pulse

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTICS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CAVITATION; DIFFRACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIGANDS; SOLUTIONS; SURGERY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC CAVITATIONS; ACOUSTIC DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BUBBLE; CAVITATION BUBBLES; CAVITATION THRESHOLDS; DYE SOLUTIONS; FREE SURFACES; LASER IRRADIATIONS; MICROMETER FIBERS; PHOTOSPALLATION; PULSE; PULSE LENGTHS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; STRESS CONFINEMENTS; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0005248807     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.275016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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