Laser-induced Shock Wave for Medical and Industrial Applications

Laser-induced shock waves have found many applications such as artifacts cleaning, material processing, lithotripsy, photo-disruption and nano-surgery. In artifact cleaning, contamination from the surface are removed without damaging the surface. Reasonably higher laser pulse energies help the obtainment of better surface clearness. In laser ablative lithotripsy; the stone is fragmentized, and stone ablation in water showed better results than in air. Chapter 1 reviews the previous experimental work and outlines some theoretical background. Chapter 2 describes the experimental techniques and Chapter 3 illustrates all results obtained and discusses their impact on laser surface cleaning of surfaces and stone fragmentation. Chapter 4 concludes the main findings and suggests some future work. This book is a valuable source of information to medical doctors, archaeologists, academics and students in the field of science and engineering. It is written in a narrative way with a large number of photos, tables and plots. It needs no deep scientific background to understand.

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Hanan I. Ibrahim, máster en Física Láser por la Universidad de Tecnología de Irak. Actualmente es profesora de Física en la Escuela Ghad de Irak. Waleed K. Hammoodi, doctor en Física Láser por la Universidad de Essex (Reino Unido), es profesor titular de aplicaciones láser en la Universidad de Tecnología de Irak.