Effect of the diameter and the sound speed of a kidney stone on the acoustic field induced by shock waves

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 37-43

  Cleveland, Robin O ^a   Tello, Juan S ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KIDNEY STONES; MICROJETS; MODEL EQUATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHOCK WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 2942752088     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1635432     Document Type: Article

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