Focused Acoustic Pulses and Renal Stone Fragmentation
Friday, March 8, 1991 4:00 p.m. Dr. C. L. Morfey Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, United Kingdom Acoustical aspects of extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) will be outlined, with emphasis on simple time-domain models. ESWL is a clinical procedure now in routine use: it involves short-duration acoustic pulses (time scale of order 1 to…