This book provides current comprehensive and clear explanations of the physics behind medical
and biomedical applications of shock waves. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is one of the
greatest medical advances of our time and its techniques and clinical devices are continuously
evolving. Further research continues to improve the understanding of calculi fragmentation and
tissue-damaging mechanisms. Shock waves are also used in orthopedics and traumatology. Possible
applications in oncology cardiology dentistry gene therapy cell transfection
transformation of fungi and bacteria as well as the inactivation of microorganisms are
promising approaches for clinical treatment industrial applications and research.Medical and
Biomedical Applications of Shock Waves is useful as a guide for students technicians and
researchers working in universities and laboratories. Chemists biologists physicians and
veterinarians involved in research or clinical practice will find useful advice but also
engineers and physicists may benefit from the overview of current research endeavors and future
directions. Furthermore it may also serve to direct manufacturers towards the design of more
efficient and safer clinical industrial and laboratory equipment.
