Shock wave source for extracorporeal lithotripsy

Details Shock wave source for extracorporeal lithotripsy Shock wave source for extracorporeal lithotripsy

1989-01-12

1990-09-18

Smith, Ruth S.

Surgery

Truss

Perineal

12866003, A61B 1722

Patent

active

049570994

ABSTRACT:
A shock wave source for an extracorporeal lithotripsy system has a number of electro-acoustic transducers arranged in a concave surface, each transducer having an acoustic axis, and the shock wave source having an acoustic axis. The transducers are each pivotally mounted, and a common adjusting element is provided which pivots each of the transducers so that their acoustic axes intersect at a focus, which lies on the acoustic axis of the shock wave source. The common element also permits adjustment of the location of the focus along the shock wave source acoustic axis so as to be more distal or more proximate relative to the shock wave source.

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