Research project

A passive acoustic system for evaluating the in vivo performance of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy

Research groups:

Acoustics Group
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Acoustics Group

Our group’s research topics range from the protection of marine mammals to the medical use of ultrasonics and the environmental effects of aircraft noise.

Research outputs

Prediction of far-field acoustic emissions from cavitation clouds during shock wave lithotripsy for development of a clinical device

T. G. Leighton, C.K. Turangan, A.R. Jamaluddin, G.J. Ball & P.R. White, 2013, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 469(2150), 20120538-[21pp]

DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0538

Type: article

The collapse of single bubbles and approximation of the far-field acoustic emissions for cavitation induced by shock wave lithotripsy

2011, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 677, 305-341

DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.85

Type: article

Lithotripsy

2010, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 224(2), 317-342

DOI: 10.1243/09544119JEIM588

Type: article

A passive acoustic device for real-time monitoring the efficacy of shockwave lithotripsy treatment

T.G. Leighton, F. Fedele, A.J. Coleman, C. McCarthy, S. Ryves, A.M. Hurrell, A. De Stefano & P.R. White, 2008, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 34(10), 1651-1665

DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.03.011

Type: article

Free-Lagrange simulations of the expansion and jetting collapse of air bubbles in water

2008, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 598, 1-25

DOI: 10.1017/S0022112007009317

Type: article