title: Investigation of cavitation in flowing media by lithotripter shock waves both in vitro and in vivo.
abstract: Cavitation produced by lithotripter shock waves was characterized in vitro in water and blood, and in vivo in aortic blood by means of a 1.6 MHz resonant bubble detector. This system was readily able to detect bubbles resulting from shock-wave induced cavitation in both water and blood flowing through plastic tubes in vitro, and even in blood pumped by the heart through a plastic arterio-venous shunt. However, this system was unable to detect evidence of shock-wave induced cavitational activity occurring within the intact vascular systems of dogs in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delius
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schwarze
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood; D004285:Dogs; D005740:Gases; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008096:Lithotripsy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D005740:Gases; D014867:Water