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Shockwave Lithotripsy Program Project


MANUSCRIPTS AND ABSTRACTS PUBLISHED BY PPG INVESTIGATORS

MANUSCRIPTS

Andreoli SP 1995 Nitric oxide - the dark side: Mediator of tissue injury (Literature review). Pediatric Nephrology 9:779-782.

Khokhlova VA, OV Sapozhnikov, MA Averkiou and LA Crum 1995 Modified spectral solution of a Burgers-type equation for the description of shock wave propagation in biological media. In Proceedings: World Congress on Ultrasonics, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1099-1102.

Singh G, JA McAteer and M Soleimani 1995 The effect of lethal acid stress on Na+/H+ exchanger isoforms in cultured inner medullary collecting duct cells: deletion of NHE-2 and over expression of NHE-1. Biochim Biophys Acta1239:74-80.

Tanner GA, PF McQuillan, MR Maxwell, JK Keck and JA McAteer 1995 An in vitro test of the cell stretch-proliferation hypothesis of renal cyst enlargement. J Am Soc Nephrol 6:1230-1241.

Paraiso MS, JA McAteer and SA Kempson 1995 Parathyroid hormone inhibits plasma membrane Pi transport without changing endocytic activity in opossum kidney cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 1266:143-147.

Crum LR and W Law 1996 The relative roles of thermal and nonthermal effects in the use of high intensity focused ultrasound for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Acoustics, Trondheim, Norway.

Willis LR, AP Evan, BA Connors, G Reed, NS Fineberg and JE Lingeman 1996 Effects of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy to one kidney on bilateral glomerular filtration rate and PAH clearance in minipigs. J Urology 156:1502-1506.

Evan AP, BA Connors, JE Lingemen, P Blomgren and LR Willis 1996 Branching patterns of the renal artery of the pig. Anat. Rec. 246:217-223.

Lifshitz DA, JC Williams, B Sturtevant, AP Evan and JA McAteer 1996 A method to quantitate cavitation-induced mechanical damage for in vitro shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) studies. Proc. VIII Int'l Symp. Urolithiasis, pp 399-400.

Evan AP, and JA McAteer 1996 Current Perspectives on shock wave lithotripsy adverse effects. In:, New developments in the management of urolithiasis, Lingeman JE & GM Preminger (eds), Igaku-Shoin Medical Publishers, New York, NY, pp 3-20.

Lingeman JE 1996 Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: Are we making progress? In: New developments in the management of urolithiasis, Lingeman JE & GM Preminger (eds), Igaku-Shoin Medical Publishers, New York, NY, pp 79-96.

Willis LR, AP Evan, BA Connors and JE Lingeman 1996 Relationship between kidney size and acute impairment of renal hemodynamics by shock wave lithotripsy in pigs. Proc. VIII Int'l Symp. Urolithiasis, pp 378-380.

Chen JG, M Coe, JA McAteer and SA Kempson 1996. Hypertonic activation and recovery of system A amino acid transport in renal MDCK cells. Am J Physiol 270 (Renal Fluid Electrolyte Physiol. 39): F419-F424.

Evan AP and JA McAteer. 1996. Q-Effects of shock wave lithotripsy. In: Kidney Stones: Medical and Surgical Management, FL Coe, MJ Favus, CYC Pak, JH Parks, GM Preminger (eds), Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, pp. 549-570.

Lingeman JE and JR Newmark 1996 Adverse bioeffects of shock wave lithotripsy. In: Kidney Stones: Medical and Surgical Management, FL Coe, MJ Favus, CYC Pak, JH Parks, GM Preminger (eds), Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, pp. 605-614.

Dominguez JH, B Song, S Liu-Chen, M Qulali, R Howard, C Hung Lee, and JA McAteer 1996. Studies of renal injury II. Activation of the Glut 1 gene and glycolysis in LLC-PK1 cells under Ca2+ stress. J Clin Invest 98:395-404.

Rivers RL, JA McAteer, JL Clendenon, BA Connors, AP Evan, and JC Williams Jr. 1996. Apical membrane permeability of MDCK cells. Am J Physiol 271 [Cell Physiol 40]: C226-234.

Averkiou MA and LA Crum 1996 Cavitation: Its role in stone comminution and renal injury. In: Topics in Clinical Urology, Lingeman JE & GM Preminger (eds), Igaku-Shoin Medical Publishers, New York, NY, pp 21-42.

Sturtevant B 1996 Shock wave physics of lithotriptors. In: "Smith's Textbook of Endourology", eds, Smith AD, GH Badlani, DH Bagley, RV Clayman, GH Jordan, LR Kavoussi, JE Lingeman, GM Preminger, and JW Segura, Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., St. Louis, MO Ch. 39, p. 529.

Linegman JE and FS Zafar 1996 Lithotripsy systems. "Smith's Textbook of Endourology", eds, Smith AD, GH Badlani, DH Bagley, RV Clayman, GH Jordan, LR Kavoussi, JE Lingeman, GM Preminger, and JW Segura, Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., St. Louis, MO Ch. 40, pp. 553-589.

Averkiou MA, LA Crum, VA Khokhlova and OV Rudenko 1996 Nonlinear waveform distortion and energy attenuation of intense acoustic waves in biological tissue. In: Proceedings: 14th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics: Nonlinear Acoustics in Perspective, ed, R Wei, Nanjing University Press, pp 463-468.

Crum LR and K Hynynen, 1996 Sound Therapy. Physics World, August, pp. 28-33.

Willis LR, AP Evan, BA Connors, NS Fineberg and JE Lingeman 1997 Effects of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy on glomerular filtration rate and PAH clearance in uninephrectomized minipigs. In Endourology 11:27-32.

Allen JS, RA Roy, and C C Church 1997 On the role of shear viscosity in mediating inertial cavitation from short-pulse meaghertz-frequency ultrasound. In press; IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.

Bailey MR 1997 Control of acoustic cavitation with application to lithotripsy. In press: Technical Report ARL-TR-97-1, Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin.

Lifshitz DA, JC Williams, B Sturtevant, BA Connors, AP Evan and JA McAteer 1997 Quantitation of shock wave cavitation damage in vitro. Ultrasound Med. Biol.23:461-471.

Averkiou MA and MF Hamilton 1995 Measurements of harmonic generation in a focused finite-amplitude sound beam. J Acoust. Soc. Am., 98:3439-3442.

Howard DD and B Sturtevant 1997 In vitro study of the mechanical effects of shock wave lithotripsy. Ultrasound in Med Biol., 23:1107-1122.

Cates J and B Sturtevant 1997 Shock wave focusing using geometrical shock dynamics. Phys Fluids.

Cleveland RO, JA McAteer, SP Andreoli and LA Crum 1997 Effect of polypropylene vials on lithotripsy shock waves.,Ultrasound Med. Biol., 23-939-952.

Hamilton MF, VA Khokhlova and OA Rudenko 1997 Analytical method for describing the paraxial region of finite amplitude sound beam. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101:1298.

Blomgren P, BA Connors, JE Lingeman, LR Willis and AP Evan 1997 Quantitation of shock wave litotripsy-induced lesion in small and large pig kidneys. Anatomical Rec.,249:341-348.

Andreoli SP and CP Mallett 1997 Dissociation of oxidant induced ATP depletion and DNA damage from early cytotoxicity in LLC-PK1 cells: role of lipid peroxidation. Submitted to AJP Renal.

Andreoli SP, CP Mallett, JA McAteer, SA Kempson and N Fineberg 1997 Epidermal growth factor accelerates recovery of LLC-PK1 cells following oxidant injury. Submitted to JASN.

Kempson SA, MJ Hoshaw, R Hinesley and JA McAteer 1997 Amino acid transport in vascular endothelial cells is upregulated by hyperosmotic stress. Submitted: AJP Cardiovasc.

Lifshitz DA, Smith ER, Lingeman JE, Mosbaugh PG, Steel RE,Scott JW , Hollensbe DW,Thompson ST and Evan AP 1997 Alterations in predicted growth rate of pediatric kidneys treated with shock wave lithotripsy for nephrolithiasis. Oct. 1998, J. Urology, 12 #5,

Carriere BB. Sturtevant, JS, Kung, S. Wolf and J. Cates. 1997 Remote spinal injury caused by the focusing of pressure waves induced by missile penetration. Submitted to Spine.

Willis L.R., Evan A.P., Connors B.A., Blomgren P.M., Fineberg N.S., Lingeman J.E., Relationship between kidney size and renal injury and functional impairment induced by shock wave lithotripsy, JASN, 1998, 10:1753-1762.

Cleveland RO, DA Lifshitz, BA Connors, AP Evan, LR Willis and LA Crum 1997 In vivo pressure measurements of lithotripsy shock waves in pigs, 1998 Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., 24 #2, 293-306.

Bailey, M.R., Blackstock, D.T., Cleveland, R.O., Crum, L.A. Comparison of electrohydraulic lithotripters with rigid and pressure-release ellipsoidal reflectors: I. Acoustic fields; J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 104 (4), Oct.1998.

Willis, L.R., Evan, A.P., Connors, B.A., Fineberg, N.S., Lingeman, J.E., Effects of SWL on glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow in uninephrectomized minipigs, J. of endourology, Feb. 1997, 11(1), 27-32.

Crum, L.A., Bailey, M.R., Kaczkowski, P., Makin, I.R.S., Mourad, P.D., Beach, K., Carter, S., Schmiedl, U., Chandler, W., Martin, R., Vaezy, S., Keilman, G., Cleveland, R.O., Roy, R.A., Therapeutic Ultrasound: a promising future in clinical medicine. Proc. of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics, Seattle, WA , 719-720, 1998.

Bailey, M.R., Blackstock, D.T., Cleveland, R.O., Crum, L.A. Comparison of electrohydraulic lithotripters with rigid and pressure-release ellipsoidal reflectors: I. Acoustic fields; J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 104 (4), Oct.1998.

Bailey, M.R., Cleveland, R.O., Blackstock, D.T., Crum, L.A., Control of cavitation using two lithotripsy pulses, Proc. of the 16th. International Congress on Acoustics, Seattle, WA, 2807-2808, 1998.

Cleveland R.O., Bailey M.R., Crum L.A., Stonehill M.A., Williams J.C., McAteer J.A., Effect of overpressure on dissolution and cavitation of bubbles stabilized on a metal surface. Proc. 135th meeting Acoustical Soc. Am., vol 4, 1998.

Evan, A.P., Willis, L.R., Connors, B.A., McAteer, J.E., Lingeman, J.E., Cleveland, R.O., Bailey, M., Crum, L.A. Separation of cavitation and renal injury induced by shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) from SWL-induced impairment of renal hemodynamics. Proc. 135th meeting Acoustical Soc. Am., vol 4, 1998

Evan, A.P., Willis, L.R., Lingeman, J.E., McAteer, J.A. Renal trauma and the risk of long-term complications in shock wave lithotripsy: Nephron, 78:1-8, 1998.

Jordan B., Bailey M.R., Cleveland R.O., Crum, L.A. Detection and control of lithotripsy-induced cavitation in blood. Proc. 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 4, 1998.

Lifshitz, D.A., Lingeman, J.E., Zafar, F.S., Hollensbe, D.W, Nyhuis, A.W., Evan, A.P. Alterations in predicted growth rate of pediatric kidneys treated with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. J. Endourology, vol 12, #5 Oct, 1998.

Cleveland, R.O., Lifsitz, D.A., Connors, B.A., Evand, A.P., Willis, L.A., In vivo pressure measurements of lithotripsy shock waves in pigs, Ultrasound in Med. & Biol. 1998, 24 #2 293-306.

McAteer, J.A., Stonehill, M.A., Colmenares, K., Williams, J.C., Evan, A.P., Cleveland, R.O., Bailey, M.A., Crum, L.A. SWL cavitaion damage in-vitro: pressurization unmasks a differential response of foil targets and isolated cells. Proc. 135th meeting Acoustical Soc. Am., vol 4,1998.

Stonehill, M.A., Williams, J.C., Bailey, M.R., Lounsbury, D., Cleveland, R.O., Crum, L.A., Evan, A.P., McAteer, J.A. An acoustically matched high pressure chamber for control of cavitation in shock wave lithotripsy: Mechanisms of shock wave damage in vitro. Methods in Cell Science, 19: 303-310, 1998.

Sturtevant B., Lokhandwalla M., Biomechanical effects of ESWL shock waves. Proc. 135th meeting Acoustical Soc. Am., Vol. 4, 1998.

Bailey MR, Cleveland RO, Sapozhnikov OA, McAteer JA, Williams JC Jr, Crum LA. Effect of increased ambient pressure on lithotripsy-induced cavitation in bulk fluid and at solid surfaces. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105:1267-1270, 1999.

Bailey, M.R., Blackstock, D.T., Cleveland, R.O., Crum, L.A. Comparison of electrohydraulic lithotripters with rigid and pressure-release ellipsoidal reflectors: II. Cavitation fields. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 1999.

Ceveland R.O., Sapozhnikov O.A., Bailey M.R., and Crum L.A. A dual passive-cavitation detector for localized detection of lithotripsy-induced cavitation in vitro. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107:1745-1758, 1999.

Evan A.P., Connors B.A., Pennington D.J., Blomgren P.M., Lingeman J.E., Fineberg N.S., and Willis L.R. Renal disease potentiates the injury caused by SWL. J. Endurology 13:619-628, 1999.

Evan, A.P., Connors, B.A., Pennington, D.J., Blomgren, P.M., Lingeman, J.E., Fineberg, N.S., Willis, L.R.; Pre-existing renal disease enhances the renal vasoconstriction induced by SWL. Proc. 137th meeting Acoustical Soc. Am., 1999.

Lifshitz D.A., Shalhav A.L., Lingeman J.E., and Evan A.P. Metabolic evaluation of stone disease patients ­ a practical approach. J. Endourology 13:669-678, 1999.

Saw, K.C., Lingeman, J.E., Management of calyceal stones: AUA Update Series, XVIII: 154-160, 1999.

Willis L.R., Evan A.P., Connors B.A., Blomgren P.M., Fineberg N.S., and Lingeman J.E. ; SWL to one pole of one kidney attenuates the injury caused by subsequent SWL to the other pole of that kidney. In:Proceedings of the 137th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Berlin, Germany, 1999.

Willis L.R., Evan A.P., Connors B.A., Blomgren P., Fineberg N.S., and Lingeman J.E. Relationship between kidney size and renal injury and functional impairment induced by shock wave lithotripsy. JASN 10:1753-1762, 1999.

Willis L.R., Evan A.P., and Lingeman J.E. 1999 The impact of high-dose lithotripsy on renal function. Contemporary Urology 11:45-50, 1999.

Williams J.C., Jr., Woodward J.F., Evan A.P., and McAteer J.A. Cell damage by lithotripter-shock waves at high pressure to preclude cavitation. Ultrasound Biol. & Med., 25:1445-1449, 1999.

Williams J.C., Jr., Stonehill M.A., Colmenares K., Evan A.P., Andreoli S.P., Cleveland R.O., Bailey M.R., Crum L.A., and McAteer J.A. Effect of macroscopic air bubbles on cell lysis by shock wave lithotripsy in vitro. Ultrasound Med. & Biol.25;473-479, 1999.

Cleveland R.O., Bailey M.R., Hartenbaum B., Lockhandwalla M., McAteer J.A., and Sturtevant B Design and characterization of a research electrohydraulic lithotripter patterned after the Dornier HM3. Rev. Scientific Instr. 71:1-12, . 2000.

Connors B.A., Evan A.P., Lingeman J.E., and Willis L.R. The effect of discharge voltage on renal injury and impairment caused by lithotripsy in the pig. JASN, 11:310-318, 2000.

Lokhandwalla M., and Sturtevant B. Fracture mechanics model of stone communition in ESWL and implications for tissue damage. PMB vol 45, pages 1923 -1940, July, 2000.

Lokhandwalla M., Sturtevant B. Fracture mechanics model of stone comminution in ESWL and implications for tissue damage. Phys. Med. Biol., July, 2000.

Saw K.C., McAteer J.A.,, Monga A.G., Chua G.T., Lingeman J.E., and Williams J.C. Jr. 2000 Characterization of urinary calculi by spiral computerized tomogrraphy (CT): Effect of stone composition, stone size and scan collimation. (In Press: Am. J. Roentgenology).

Saw K.C., McAteer J.A.,, Fineberg N.S., Monga A.G., Chua G.T., Lingeman J.E., and Williams J.C. Jr. Calcium stone fragility is predicted by helical CT values. (In Press: J. Endourology) 2000.

Abstracts

 

Averkiou MA, LA Crum and MF Hamilton 1994 Focused acoustic pulses of finite amplitude and their influence on cavitation bubble dynamics. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96:3306.

Allen JS, MA Averkiou, L. Crum, CM Young and GR Hess 1994 Mass diffusion in spark-induced vapor bubbles. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96:3278.

McAteer JA, AP Evan, JE Lingeman and SA Andreoli 1995 Kidney tubular epithelial injury in shock wave lithotripsy: the search for an appropriate in vitro model. J Accoust Soc Am 98:2942.

Andreoli SP 1995 Disassociation of oxidant induced ATP depletion and DNA damage from lytic injury in proximal tubular LLC-PK1 cells: role of lipid peroxidation. Pediatr Res 37:358A.

Andreoli SP and C Mallett 1995 Lazaroids prevent oxidant induced lipid peroxidation and cell lysis but not ATP depletion or DNA damage. JASN 6:973.

Sturtevant B and D Howard 1995 The mechanical effects of focused shock waves on tissue-like structures, J Acous Soc Am 98:2942.

Willis LR, AP Evan, BA Connors and JE Lingeman 1995 Kidney size as a determinant of shock-wave lithotripsy-induced impairment of renal hemodynamics. JASN 6(3):687.

Evan A., BA Connors, LR Willis, A Trout and JE Lingeman 1995 Kidney size as a determinant of structural/functional injury following shock-wave treatment of pigs. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98(5):2943.

Averkiou MA, LA Crum, and MF Hamilton 1995 Theoretical modeling of the acoustic pressure field produced by commercial lithotripters. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98:2941.

Allen J, RA Roy and CC Church 1995 Further study of the effects of shear viscosity on inertial cavitation thresholds J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98:2943.

Khokhlova VA, OA Sapozhnikov, MA Averkiou and LA Crum 1995 Effects of frequency-dependent absorption on the propagation and attenuation of high-intensity acoustic waves containing shocks. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98:2944.

Averkiou MA, LA Crum and MF Hamilton 1995 Measurements of finite amplitude acoustic pulses radiated from piston sources in water. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97:3325.

Crum LA and W Law 1995 The use of high intensity focused ultrasound for non-invasive surgery. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97:3325.

McAteer JA, SP Andreoli, AP Evan, DD Denman, C Mallett, RO Cleveland, MA Averkiou, LA Crum, JE Lingeman and D Lifshitz 1996 Shock wave lithotripsy: a demonstration of experimental methods for in vitro SW exposure and analysis of cell injury. J Acoust Soc Am 99:2527.

McAteer JA, SP Andreoli, C Mallett, DD Denman, JE Lingeman and AP Evan 1996 Lithotripsy shock wave injury to cultured kidney epithelial cells. J Urology 155:360.

Cates J and B Sturtevant 1996 Application of geometrical shock dynamics to weak shock focusing in extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. J Acous Soc Am 97:3257.

Howard D and B Sturtevant 1996 Damage to tissue-like structures by wrinkled focused shock waves. J Acous Soc Am 99:2511.

Evan AP, DA Lifshitz, BA Connors, LR Willis, JE Lingemen, RO Cleveland and LA Crum 1996 In vivo measurements of lithotripsy shock waves in pigs. J. Endourology 10:S57.

Cleveland RO, LA Crum, DA Lifshitz, BA Connors and AP Evan 1996 In Vivo measurements of lithotripsy shock waves in pigs. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100:2617.

Averkiou MA, RO Cleveland and RA Roy 1996 The small-amplitude, continuous wave reflected field produced by a spherical source placed at the focus of an ellipsoidal reflector. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100:2748.

Sapozhnikov OA, VG Andreev, VA Khokhlova, YA Pischal'nikov and RO Cleveland 1996 Propagation of intense acoustic pulses with shocks in relaxing fluids. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100:2591.

Cleveland RO, MA Averkiou, LA Crum and JA McAteer 1996 Measurements of the effect of polypropylene vials on ultrasound propagation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99(4):2478.

Evan AP, LR Willis, BA Connors and JE Lingeman 1996 Effect of lesion size on the renal tubular and hemodynamic response to SWL in the at-risk kidney. J. Urology 155:360.

Connors BA, AP Evan, V Westmoreland, LR Willis and JE Lingeman 1996 Shock wave lithotripsy adversely effects renal hemodynamics and tubular function in contralateral kidneys following SWL treatment. FASEB Journal 10(3):A375

Connors BA, S Youzhi, AP Evan, LR Willis and JE Lingeman 1996 Morphological changes observed in the renal vasculature immediately following shock-wave lithotripsy. JASN 7:1730.

Connors BA, S Youzhi, AP. Evan, LR Willis, JE Lingeman, A Trout and D Lifshitz 1997 Shock-wave lithotripsy induced acute ultrastructural changes in the renal vasculature of the pig. J. Urology 157:33.

Connors BA, AP Evan, LR Willis, V Westmoreland and JE Lingeman 1997 Change in regional renal tubular function following shock-wave lithotripsy. J. Urology 157:410.

Evan AP, PM Blomgren, BA Connors, LR Willis, and JE Lingeman 1997 Quantitation of renal lesion induced by shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) in small vs large pig kidneys. J. Urology 157:249.

Willis LR, AP Evan, BA Connors, NS Fineberg and JE Lingeman 1997 Kidney size as a determinant of shock-wave lithotripsy-induced impairment of renal hemodynamics. J. Urology 157:207.

Willis LR, AP Evan, BA Connors and JE Lingeman 1997 Dose-response relationship between shock wave voltage and renal tubular impairment. J. Urology 157:85.

Smith ER, JE Lingeman, DW Hollensbe, FS Zafar and DA Lifshitz 1997 Long-term follow up of pediatric ESWL. J. Urology 157:270.

Bailey, M.R., Cleveland, R.O., Sapozhnikov, r.a., McAteer, J.A., Williams Jr., J.C., Crum, L.A., Effect of increased ambient pressure on lithotripsy-induced cavitation in bulk fluid at solid surfaces, J. Acoust Soc. Am., 105:1267 (A) 1999.

Cleveland, R.O., In vivo modeling of the HM3 lithotripter, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 105:1269 (A) 1999.

Cleveland, R.O., Bailey, M.R., Crum, L.A., Evan, A.P., Mechanisms of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, 29th Annual Ultrasonic Industry Assoc. (UIA) synposium, June 7-8, 1999, Baltimore, MD.

Davenny, B.C., Cleveland, R.O., Control of cavitation in lithotripsy by waveform shaping, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106:2192 (A), 1999.

Andrew Evan, Youzhi Shao, Lynn Willis, Bret Connors, Philip Blomgren and James Lingeman, Indianapolis, IN; Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) damages papillary structures prior to inducing injury to cortical blood vessels and nephrons; AUA, April 30 - May 3, 2000, Altanta, GA.

David A. Lifshitz, James C. Williams, James E. Lingeman, Andrew P. Evan, Drew L. Rietjens, James A. McAteer; Efficiency of SWL stone fragmentation in vitro is improved by slowing the SW delivery rate. AUA, April 30 - May 3, 2000, Atlanta Ga.

Lynn R. Willis, Andrew P. Evan, Bret A. Connors, Philip Blomgren and James E. Lingeman; The impact of high-dose lithotripsy on renal structure and function; ASA, May 30-June 3, 2000, Altanta, GA

Thomas J. Matula, Michael R. Bailey, Paul R. Hilmo, and Lawrence A. Crum; Simultaneous detection of acoustic and light emissions from cavitation bubbles in SWL; ASA Atlanta, May 30-June 3, 2000.

Dahlia L, sokolov, Michael R. Bailey, Lawrence A. Crum; Simultaneous detection of acoustic and light emissions from cavitation bubbles in SWL; ASA Atlanta, May 30-June 3, 2000.

Thomas J. Matula, Paul R. Hilmo, Michael R. Bailey, and Lawrence A. Crum; Sonoluminescence and bubble dynamics from Lithotripsy bubble fields; American Chemical Society- Pacifichem 2000, Dec. 14-19, 2000.

Oleg A. Sapozhnikov, Michael R. Bailey, Lawrence A. Crum, Robin O. Cleveland, Shahram Vaezy, James A. McAteer, and Andy P. Evan; In vivo detection of cavitation induced by lithotripsy shock waves in pig kidney; 9th World Meeting of the WFUMB. World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, MAY 6-10, 2000.