Effect of lithotripter focal width on stone comminution in shock wave lithotripsy

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2635-2645

  Qin, Jun ^a,b   Simmons, W Neal ^a   Sankin, Georgy ^a   Zhong, Pei ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Southern Illinois University at Carbondale   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PULSE; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; FOCAL PLANE; IN-VITRO; POSITIVE PRESSURE; SHOCK-WAVE LITHOTRIPSY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STONE COMMINUTION;

GRINDING (COMMINUTION); REFLECTION;

FOCUSING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LITHOTRIPSY; MATERIALS TESTING; MOTION; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; STONE FORMATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; CALCULI; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LITHOTRIPSY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRESSURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 77954044106     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3308409     Document Type: Article

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