Ultrasound is widely used for medical diagnosis and increasingly for therapeutic purposes.
An understanding of the bio-effects of sonography is important for clinicians and scientists …

Therapeutic ultrasound is an emerging field with many medical applications. High intensity
focused ultrasound (HIFU) provides the ability to localize the deposition of acoustic energy …

Blast exposure is associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI), neuropsychiatric symptoms,
and long-term cognitive disability. We examined a case series of postmortem brains from US …

Histotripsy is a therapy that focuses short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of ultrasound to
incite a localized cavitation cloud that mechanically breaks down tissue. To investigate the …

OBJECTIVE: We review the pathophysiology and possible prevention measures of
complications after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). METHODS: A literature …

Clinically available thrombolysis techniques are limited by either slow reperfusion (drugs) or
invasiveness (catheters) and carry significant risks of bleeding. In this study, the feasibility of …

Background and Purpose: There is strong evidence that cavitation bubble activity
contributes to stone breakage and that shockwave-bubble interactions are involved in the …

Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) has proven to be a highly effective treatment for the removal of
kidney stones. Shock waves (SWs) can be used to break most stone types, and because …

Lithotripters produce a signature waveform, an acoustic shock wave. This pressure pulse, or
shock wave, is responsible for breaking stones. However, it is also responsible for collateral …

Different international associations have proposed their own guidelines on urolithiasis.
However, the focus is primarily on an overview of the principles of urolithiasis management …