Generation of two successive shock waves focused to a common focal point

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4 II, 2006, Pages 1382-1385

  Šunka, Pavel ^a   Stelmashuk, Vitality ^a   Babický, Václav ^a   Člupek, Martin ^a   Beneš, Jiří ^b   Poučkova, Pavla ^b   Kašpar, Jan ^c   Bodnár, Michal ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cavitation collapse; Double shocks; Focused shock waves; Liver injury; Secondary shocks

Indexed keywords

ANODES; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

DOUBLE SHOCKS; FOCAL POINT; FOCUSED SHOCK WAVES; SECONDARY SHOCKS; SUCCESSIVE SHOCK WAVES;

PLASMA SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 33747848977     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.878435     Document Type: Article

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