Cavitation and Nonlinear Effects in Focused Acoustic Fields Used in Therapy
Monday, April 17, 2000 4:00 p.m. Dr. Oleg A. Sapozhnikov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia http://www.phys.msu.su Intense ultrasound is a promising therapeutic tool. Focused shock pulses are a way to obtain very high (up to 100 MPa) acoustic pressures locally inside the human body and are now clinically used to comminute kidney stones (extracorporeal shock…