Cavitation Bubble Cluster Activity in the Breakage of Kidney Stones by Lithotripter Shockwaves

Yuri A. Pishchalnikov, Oleg A. Sapozhnikov, Michael R. Bailey, James C. Williams, Robin O. Cleveland, Tim Colonius, Lawrence A. Crum, Andrew P. Evan, James A. McAteer

Journal of Endourology · 2003 · 224 citations · 56 references

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Abstract

Cavitation-mediated damage to stones is attributable, not to the action of solitary bubbles, but to the growth and collapse of bubble clusters.

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