Quantitative Assessments of Mechanical Responses upon Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy.

ABSTRACT: Although radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy (rESWT) has been widely used to treat orthopedic disorders with promising clinical results, rESWT largely relies on clinicians' personal experiences and arbitrary judgments, without knowing relationships between administration doses and effective doses at target sites. In fact, practitioners lack a general and reliable way to assess propagation and distribution of pressure waves inside biological tissues quantitatively. This study develops a methodology to combine experimental measurements and computational simulations to obtain pressure fields from rESWT through calibrating and validating computational models with experimental measurements. Wave pressures at the bottom of a petri dish and inside biological tissues are measured, respectivel

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867036 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature