Research project

A passive acoustic system for evaluating the in vivo performance of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy

Research groups:

Acoustics Group
Lead researcher:

Professor Timothy Leighton
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Timothy Leighton FRS FREng FMedSci ScD

Professor of Ultrasonics

Connect with Timothy

Email: T.G.Leighton@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Acoustics Group

Our group’s research topics range from the protection of marine mammals to the medical use of ultrasonics and the environmental effects of aircraft noise.

Research outputs

The development of a passive acoustic device for monitoring the effectiveness of shockwave lithotripsy in real time

Timothy Leighton, Fiammetta Fedele, Andrew Coleman, Catherine McCarthy, Ahmad Jamaluddin, Cary Turangan, Graham Ball, Simon Ryves, Andrew Hurrell, Antonello De Stefano & Paul White, 2008, Hydroacoustics, 11, 159-180

Type: article

An ultrasound based passive monitoring system for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL)

F. Fedele, A.J. Coleman, T.G. Leighton, P.R. White, V.F. Humphrey, S. Ryves, A.M. Hurrell & D.C. Finfer, 2006, Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 28(1), 770-773

Type: article

Characterising in vivo acoustic cavitation during lithotripsy with time-frequency methods

K.B. Cunningham, A. Coleman, T.G. Leighton & P.R. White, 2001, Acoustics Bulletin, 26(5), 10-16

Type: article