Effects of shock waves on living tissues. (Numerical analysis of a propagating pressure wave toward living tissue)

JSME International Journal, Series B: Fluids and Thermal Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 714-720

  Tamagawa, Masaaki ^a   Akamatsu, Teruaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constitutive Equation; ESWL; Living Tissue; Numerical Analysis; Shock Wave

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SHOCK WAVES; WAVE EFFECTS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY (ESWL); PRESSURE WAVE ANALYSIS; SOLID STATE EQUATION;

TISSUE;

FLOW FIELDS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 0030292221     PISSN: 13408054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmeb.39.714     Document Type: Article

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