A theoretical study of gas bubble dynamics in tissue

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 838, Issue , 2006, Pages 217-224

  Church, Charles C ^a   Yang, Xinmai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation threshold; Inertial cavitation; Tissue strain; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845982958     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2210349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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