Contemporary clinical practice of shock wave lithotripsy: a reevaluation of contraindications

SB Streem - The Journal of urology, 1997 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: The current practice of shock wave lithotripsy is reviewed, specifically regarding
patients in whom the presence of presumed absolute or relative contraindications may …

Extracorporeal lithotripsy: update on technology

GK Chow, SB Streem - Urologic Clinics of North America, 2000 - Elsevier
The first clinical application of extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) was reported by
Chaussy et al in 1980, 8 and during the ensuing two decades the urologic management of …

A survey of the acoustic output of commercial extracorporeal shock wave lithotripters

AJ Coleman, JE Saunders - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 1989 - Elsevier
A survey of the pressures and intensities generated by different commercial extracorporeal
shock wave (ESWL) lithotripters is reported. The lithotripters included in the survey are the …

Medical and biomedical applications of shock waves

AM Loske - 2017 - Springer
This book was written with the aim of widening the reader's spectrum of knowledge
regarding the uses of shock waves in medicine and biology, as well as to contribute to safer …

Acoustic emission and sonoluminescence due to cavitation at the beam focus of an electrohydraulic shock wave lithotripter

AJ Coleman, MJ Choi, JE Saunders… - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 1992 - Elsevier
The acoustic emission from cavitation in the field of an extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter
has been studied using a lead zirconate titanate piezoceramic (PC4) hydrophone in the form …

The impact of piezoelectric PVDF on medical ultrasound exposure measurements, standards, and regulations

GR Harris, RC Preston… - IEEE transactions on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the development of PVDF hydrophones for characterizing medical
ultrasound fields. The polymer hydrophone approaches that have resulted from this work are …

Effects of shock waves on the structure and growth of the immature rat epiphysis

LD Yeaman, CP Jerome, DL McCullough - The Journal of urology, 1989 - Elsevier
The left proximal tibia of eighteen five week old male Sprague-Dawley rats was exposed to
1500 shock waves at 20 kV in a Dornier XL-1 experimental lithotripter. Six of these rats, and …

Comparison of electrohydraulic lithotripters with rigid and pressure-release ellipsoidal reflectors. II. Cavitation fields

MR Bailey, DT Blackstock, RO Cleveland… - The Journal of the …, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
Dramatically different cavitation was produced by two separate acoustic pulses that had
different shapes but similar duration, frequency content, and peak positive and negative …

[图书][B] Principles and applications of therapeutic ultrasound in healthcare

Y Zhou - 2015 - books.google.com
Therapeutic uses of ultrasound include fragmentation of kidney stones, ablation of tumors
and newer applications, such as drug delivery and denervation. Suitable as a textbook or as …

Free radical production by high energy shock waves-comparison with ionizing irradiation

TR Morgan, VP Laudone, WDW Heston, L Zeitz… - The Journal of …, 1988 - Elsevier
Fricke chemical dosimetry is used as an indirect measure of the free radical production of
ionizing irradiation. We adapted the Fricke ferrous sulfate radiation dosimeter to examine the …