High intensity focused ultrasound lithotripsy with cavitating microbubbles

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 851-860

  Yoshizawa, Shin ^a   Ikeda, Teiichiro ^b,d   Ito, Akira ^b   Ota, Ryuhei ^b   Takagi, Shu ^b,c   Matsumoto, Yoichiro ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavitation; High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Lithotripsy; Microbubbles

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; CAVITATING BUBBLES; CAVITATION CONTROL; CAVITATION DETECTION; CLOUD CAVITATIONS; EROSION RATES; EROSION TEST; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU); HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH-FREQUENCY PULSE; IN-VITRO; KIDNEY STONE; LITHOTRIPSY; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY WAVES; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MICROBUBBLES; NATURAL STONES; SUBHARMONICS; THERAPEUTIC METHOD; WAVE EMISSIONS; WAVE FORMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; SPACECRAFT; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

CAVITATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MICROBUBBLE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SHOCK WAVE; ULTRASONIC LITHOTRIPSY; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 69049101966     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0471-y     Document Type: Article

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