Growth and Collapse of Cavitation Bubbles : Change of Nuclei Population due to Collapse of Bubbles

Cloud cavitation control for lithotripsy using high intensity focused ultrasound

“…On the solid surface, individual bubbles that comprise the clouds grow and collapse repeatedly along the ultrasound pressure fluctuation. When the bubbles collapse, they may undergo fission and supply new cavitation nuclei (Matsumoto and Aoki, 1986). Thus, the number of the bubbles continues to increase and the individual cloud grows with increasing size.…”