Effect of firing rate on the performance of shock wave lithotriptors

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1681-1686

  Pishchalnikov, Yuri A ^a   McAteer, James A ^a   Williams Jr, James C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic output; Cavitation bubbles; Shock wave lithotripsy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK WAVE; ULTRASONIC LITHOTRIPSY;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY;

EID: 54049096214     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07896.x     Document Type: Article

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