• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.319-322
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• 2000

솔레노이드 코일을 이용하여 전자기식 충격파 발생기를 제작하고 발생된 충격파의 음향학적인 특성을 측정하였다. 충격파의 생물학적 효과에 가장 중요한 과정으로 알려진 초점 부위의 기포군의 파열 현상을 바늘형 하이드로폰을 이용하여 평가하였다. 하이드로폰 신호의 웨이브렛 변환을 이용하여 초점 부근에서 기포 파열 지연 시간을 정확히 측정할 수 있음을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.271-281
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• 2005

An electromagnetic type shock wave generator suitable for extracorporeal shock wave therapy has been constructed by employing a solenoid coil. The Property of the shock waves produced by the shock wave generator was evaluated using a needle hydrophone. It was shown that, as the capacitor discharging voltage increased from 8 to 18 kV, the Positive Peak Pressure (P+) of the shock wave increased non-linearly from 10 to 77 Wa. In contrast. the negative peak Pressure (f) varied between -3.2 and -6.8 MPa. had its absolute maximum of -6.9 ma at 14 kV The peak amplitudes P+ measured repeatedly under the same voltage setting varied within $5\;\%$ from mean values and this is very small compared to about $50\;\%$ for electrohydraulic type shock wave generators. It could be observed, from the hydrophone signal recorded over 1 ms. several sequential acoustic impulses representing bubble collapses. namely. acoustic cavitation. induced by the shock wave. A technique based on wavelet transformation was used to accurately measure the time delay between the 1st and 2nd collapse known to be closely related to the shock strength. It was observed that the measured time delay increased almost linearly from 120 to $700\;{\mu}s$ with the shock wave Pressure P+ increasing from 10 to 77 MPa.