Wednesday, December 12, 2012

'Smart Stethoscope' Monitors Kidney Stone Treatment

'Smart Stethoscope' Advance in Monitoring Treatment of Kidney Stones.  Science Daily.  December 12, 2012.

It is sometimes difficult to determine if lithotripsy has adequately broken kidney stones.  This new device measures the reverberated sound produced around the body by the shock waves as they hit the stone.  The British researchers who developed the device employ principles of computational fluid dynamics to develop the instrument.

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