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In 1981, Professor M. Kuwahara of the Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Tohoku University invited us to develop a prototype lithotripter using micro explosions. Then the collaboration started applying results of the basic experiments to design a lithotripsy for clinical use.
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Takayama, K. (2019). Applications of Underwater Shock Wave Research to Medicine. In: Visualization of Shock Wave Phenomena. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19451-2_10
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