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

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Lead researcher

Professor Timothy Leighton FRS FREng FMedSci ScD

Professor of Ultrasonics

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 , 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
A.R. Jamaluddin,
G.J. Ball,
C.K. Turangan,
& T.G. Leighton
, 2011 , Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 677 , 305--341
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.85
Type: article
Lithotripsy
T.G. Leighton,
& R.O. Cleveland
, 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
Free-Lagrange simulations of the expansion and jetting collapse of air bubbles in water
C.K. Turangan,
A.R. Jamaluddin,
G.J. Ball,
& T.G. Leighton
, 2008 , Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 598 , 1--25
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112007009317
Type: article
The development of a passive acoustic device for monitoring the effectiveness of shockwave lithotripsy in real time
Timothy Leighton,
Fiammetta Fedele,
Andrew Coleman,
Catherine McCarthy,
Ahmad Jamaluddin,
Cary Turangan,
Graham Ball,
Simon Ryves,
Andrew Hurrell,
Antonello De Stefano,
& Paul White
, 2008 , Hydroacoustics , 11 , 159--180
Type: article
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