Published in J Endourol on June 13, 2012
Lithotripter outcomes in a community practice setting: comparison of an electromagnetic and an electrohydraulic lithotripter. J Urol (2014) 0.88
Optimizing shock wave lithotripsy: a comprehensive review. Rev Urol (2013) 0.86
Evaluation of the LithoGold LG-380 lithotripter: in vitro acoustic characterization and assessment of renal injury in the pig model. J Endourol (2013) 0.83
A heuristic model of stone comminution in shock wave lithotripsy. J Acoust Soc Am (2013) 0.78
Effect of the body wall on lithotripter shock waves. J Endourol (2014) 0.77
Improving the lens design and performance of a contemporary electromagnetic shock wave lithotripter. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 0.77
Quantification of the Range of Motion of Kidney and Ureteral Stones During Shockwave Lithotripsy in Conscious Patients. J Endourol (2016) 0.75
Ultrasound Use in Urinary Stones: Adapting Old Technology for a Modern-Day Disease. J Endourol (2016) 0.75
Prospective, randomized trial comparing shock wave lithotripsy and ureteroscopy for lower pole caliceal calculi 1 cm or less. J Urol (2005) 2.31
The acute and long-term adverse effects of shock wave lithotripsy. Semin Nephrol (2008) 1.86
Shock wave technology and application: an update. Eur Urol (2011) 1.77
Current management of urolithiasis: progress or regress? J Endourol (2002) 1.74
The effect of discharge voltage on renal injury and impairment caused by lithotripsy in the pig. J Am Soc Nephrol (2000) 1.70
Renal morphology and function immediately after extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy. AJR Am J Roentgenol (1985) 1.69
Shock wave lithotripsy: advances in technology and technique. Nat Rev Urol (2009) 1.67
Respiratory gating for 3-dimensional PET of the thorax: feasibility and initial results. J Nucl Med (2004) 1.56
Relationship between kidney size, renal injury, and renal impairment induced by shock wave lithotripsy. J Am Soc Nephrol (1999) 1.50
Effect of stone motion on in vitro comminution efficiency of Storz Modulith SLX. J Endourol (2004) 1.39
Contemporary surgical management of upper urinary tract calculi. J Urol (2009) 1.38
Shockwave lithotripsy: dose-related effects on renal structure, hemodynamics, and tubular function. J Endourol (2005) 1.36
Reducing shock number dramatically decreases lesion size in a juvenile kidney model. J Endourol (2006) 1.19
Biological effects of shock waves: kidney damage by shock waves in dogs--dose dependence. Ultrasound Med Biol (1988) 1.12
Biological effects of shock waves: kidney haemorrhage by shock waves in dogs--administration rate dependence. Ultrasound Med Biol (1988) 1.11
Kidney mobility during respiration. Radiother Oncol (1994) 1.02
In vitro study of ultrasound based real-time tracking of renal stones for shock wave lithotripsy: part 1. J Urol (2001) 0.93
The influence of respiration induced motion of the kidneys on the accuracy of radiotherapy treatment planning, a magnetic resonance imaging study. Radiother Oncol (1994) 0.92
Temporal effects of shock wave lithotripsy. J Urol (1991) 0.91
Hit/Miss monitoring of ESWL by spectral Doppler ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol (2003) 0.87
Image based renal stone tracking to improve efficacy in extracorporeal lithotripsy. J Urol (1998) 0.84
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of renal pelvis stones with PCK stonelith lithotripter. Int Urol Nephrol (2005) 0.83
Time reversal focusing applied to lithotripsy. Ultrason Imaging (1996) 0.82
Does respiratory gating improve extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy results? J Endourol (1994) 0.79
Effect of overpressure and pulse repetition frequency on cavitation in shock wave lithotripsy. J Acoust Soc Am (2002) 2.77
Focused ultrasound to expel calculi from the kidney. J Urol (2011) 2.55
Acoustic characterization of high intensity focused ultrasound fields: a combined measurement and modeling approach. J Acoust Soc Am (2008) 2.25
Cavitation bubble cluster activity in the breakage of kidney stones by lithotripter shockwaves. J Endourol (2003) 2.05
Blood vessel deformations on microsecond time scales by ultrasonic cavitation. Phys Rev Lett (2011) 2.03
Novel ultrasound method to reposition kidney stones. Urol Res (2010) 1.90
Effects of nonlinear propagation, cavitation, and boiling in lesion formation by high intensity focused ultrasound in a gel phantom. J Acoust Soc Am (2006) 1.90
Shock-induced heating and millisecond boiling in gels and tissue due to high intensity focused ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol (2009) 1.82
Shock wave technology and application: an update. Eur Urol (2011) 1.77
Focused ultrasonic propulsion of kidney stones: review and update of preclinical technology. J Endourol (2013) 1.69
Blood vessel rupture by cavitation. Urol Res (2010) 1.65
Cavitation selectively reduces the negative-pressure phase of lithotripter shock pulses. Acoust Res Lett Online (2005) 1.61
Controlled tissue emulsification produced by high intensity focused ultrasound shock waves and millisecond boiling. J Acoust Soc Am (2011) 1.58
A mechanistic analysis of stone fracture in lithotripsy. J Acoust Soc Am (2007) 1.56
Overview of therapeutic ultrasound applications and safety considerations. J Ultrasound Med (2012) 1.54
Kidney damage and renal functional changes are minimized by waveform control that suppresses cavitation in shock wave lithotripsy. J Urol (2002) 1.47
Crowd-sourced assessment of technical skills: an adjunct to urology resident surgical simulation training. J Endourol (2015) 1.46
Ultracal-30 gypsum artificial stones for research on the mechanisms of stone breakage in shock wave lithotripsy. Urol Res (2005) 1.46
Cavitation clouds created by shock scattering from bubbles during histotripsy. J Acoust Soc Am (2011) 1.41
Effective and organ specific radiation doses from videourodynamics in children. J Urol (2013) 1.39
Pretreatment with low-energy shock waves induces renal vasoconstriction during standard shock wave lithotripsy (SWL): a treatment protocol known to reduce SWL-induced renal injury. BJU Int (2008) 1.33
Flow mediated dilation of the brachial artery: an investigation of methods requiring further standardization. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2007) 1.32
Evidence for trapped surface bubbles as the cause for the twinkling artifact in ultrasound imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol (2013) 1.30
Prospective comparison of four laparoscopic vessel ligation devices. J Endourol (2008) 1.26
Characterization of a multi-element clinical HIFU system using acoustic holography and nonlinear modeling. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control (2013) 1.23
Ultrasonic atomization of tissue and its role in tissue fractionation by high intensity focused ultrasound. Phys Med Biol (2012) 1.22
The risk of exposure to diagnostic ultrasound in postnatal subjects: nonthermal mechanisms. J Ultrasound Med (2008) 1.21
Radiation force of an arbitrary acoustic beam on an elastic sphere in a fluid. J Acoust Soc Am (2013) 1.17
Focused ultrasound to expel calculi from the kidney: safety and efficacy of a clinical prototype device. J Urol (2013) 1.16
Magnetic resonance imaging of boiling induced by high intensity focused ultrasound. J Acoust Soc Am (2009) 1.14
Activity, energy intake, obesity, and the risk of incident kidney stones in postmenopausal women: a report from the Women's Health Initiative. J Am Soc Nephrol (2013) 1.09
Tools to improve the accuracy of kidney stone sizing with ultrasound. J Endourol (2014) 1.07
Observations of translation and jetting of ultrasound-activated microbubbles in mesenteric microvessels. Ultrasound Med Biol (2011) 1.02
Spleen hemostasis using high-intensity ultrasound: survival and healing. J Trauma (2002) 1.02
B-mode ultrasound versus color Doppler twinkling artifact in detecting kidney stones. J Endourol (2013) 1.00
Dual-pulse lithotripter accelerates stone fragmentation and reduces cell lysis in vitro. Ultrasound Med Biol (2003) 0.97
Comparison of accuracy of 14-, 18- and 20-G needles in ex-vivo renal mass biopsy: a prospective, blinded study. BJU Int (2009) 0.96
In vitro sonoluminescence and sonochemistry studies with an electrohydraulic shock-wave lithotripter. Ultrasound Med Biol (2002) 0.92
Hemorrhage control in arteries using high-intensity focused ultrasound: a survival study. Ultrasonics (2005) 0.91
Tissue pulsatility imaging of cerebral vasoreactivity during hyperventilation. Ultrasound Med Biol (2008) 0.91
The relation between cavitation and platelet aggregation during exposure to high-intensity focused ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol (2004) 0.91
Ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction-mediated gene delivery into canine livers. Mol Ther (2013) 0.90
A suppressor to prevent direct wave-induced cavitation in shock wave therapy devices. J Acoust Soc Am (2005) 0.89
A method to synchronize high-intensity, focused ultrasound with an arbitrary ultrasound imager. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control (2006) 0.89
Content and face validation of a curriculum for ultrasonic propulsion of calculi in a human renal model. J Endourol (2014) 0.87
A reduced-order, single-bubble cavitation model with applications to therapeutic ultrasound. J Acoust Soc Am (2011) 0.87
Focused ultrasound: concept for automated transcutaneous control of hemorrhage in austere settings. Aviat Space Environ Med (2009) 0.86
Improved detection of renal vascular anatomy using multidetector CT angiography: Is 100% detection possible? J Endourol (2007) 0.86
Severe obesity is associated with 3-fold higher radiation dose rate during ureteroscopy. Urology (2013) 0.85
Fluoroless ureteroscopy: zero-dose fluoroscopy during ureteroscopic treatment of urinary-tract calculi. J Endourol (2013) 0.84
Functional tissue pulsatility imaging of the brain during visual stimulation. Ultrasound Med Biol (2007) 0.84
Prefocal alignment improves stone comminution in shockwave lithotripsy. J Endourol (2002) 0.84
Evaluation of a shock wave induced cavitation activity both in vitro and in vivo. Phys Med Biol (2007) 0.84
Perinephric fat thickness is an independent predictor of operative complexity during robot-assisted partial nephrectomy. J Endourol (2014) 0.83
Three-dimensional ultrasonography measurements after endovascular aneurysm repair. Ann Vasc Surg (2012) 0.82
Laparoendoscopic single-site porcine nephrectomy using a novel valveless trocar system. J Endourol (2010) 0.82
Ultrasonic propulsion of kidney stones. Curr Opin Urol (2016) 0.82
The use of resonant scattering to identify stone fracture in shock wave lithotripsy. J Acoust Soc Am (2007) 0.81
Design of HIFU Transducers for Generating Specified Nonlinear Ultrasound Fields. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control (2016) 0.81
Impact of calcium intake and intestinal calcium absorption on kidney stones in older women: the study of osteoporotic fractures. J Urol (2012) 0.80
Depleted uranium: a new battlefield hazard. Lancet (2002) 0.79
Observations of the collapses and rebounds of millimeter-sized lithotripsy bubbles. J Acoust Soc Am (2011) 0.79
Multidetector computerized tomography angiography to predict lumbar venous anatomy before donor nephrectomy. J Urol (2006) 0.79
Use of a bovine eye lens for observation of HIFU-induced lesions in real-time. Ultrasound Med Biol (2006) 0.79
Ultrasonic measurement of condensate film thickness. J Acoust Soc Am (2008) 0.79
Proof of principle in vitro study of a prototype ultrasound technology to size stone fragments during ureteroscopy. J Endourol (2009) 0.79
Ureteroscopic ultrasound technology to size kidney stone fragments: proof of principle using a miniaturized probe in a porcine model. J Endourol (2010) 0.78
1pPAb5. Acoustic radiation force to reposition kidney stones. Proc Meet Acoust (2015) 0.78
Beamwidth measurement of individual lithotripter shock waves. J Acoust Soc Am (2009) 0.78
Identification of underserved areas for urologic cancer care. Cancer (2014) 0.78
Rectified growth of histotripsy bubbles. Proc Meet Acoust (2015) 0.77
In vivo feasibility of image-guided transvaginal focused ultrasound therapy for the treatment of intracavitary fibroids. Fertil Steril (2004) 0.77
High-intensity ultrasound treatment of blunt abdominal solid organ injury: an animal model. J Trauma (2004) 0.77
3aBAb5. Ultrasound intensity to propel stones from the kidney is below the threshold for renal injury. Proc Meet Acoust (2013) 0.75
Noninvasive ureterocele puncture using pulsed focused ultrasound: an in vitro study. J Endourol (2013) 0.75
Non-invasive measurement of the temperature rise in tissue surrounding a kidney stone subjected to ultrasonic propulsion. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc (2015) 0.75