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Laser-Induced Cavitation and Photoacoustic Cavitation

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As a physical phenomenon, cavitation can be induced by several factors, including heating, acoustic pressure, and high-energy light, for which a focused laser has been widely used.

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  1. The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, People’s Republic of China

    Yi Feng, Dui Qin & Mingxi Wan

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    Yi Feng

  3. Joint Department of Physics, Division of Radiotherapy & Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research, Surry, United Kingdom

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Feng, Y., Qin, D., Wan, M. (2015). Laser-Induced Cavitation and Photoacoustic Cavitation. In: Wan, M., Feng, Y., Haar, G. (eds) Cavitation in Biomedicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7255-6_8

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