Cardiovascular cavitation
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Emil-Alexandru Brujan
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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This article reviews the role of cavitation in the therapeutic applications of ultrasound and laser surgery, and the cavitation effects in mechanical heart valves. Whenever laser pulses are used to ablate or disrupt tissue in a liquid environment, cavitation bubbles are produced which interact with