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to ASA’s Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA).
The award was for their ‘smart stethoscope,’ a passive acoustic sensor for the real-time monitoring of extra- corporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). During EWSL, thousands of shock waves are transmitted into the human body to fragment kidney stones, but current monitoring systems
are insufficient for determining when stone fragmentation has occurred, such that 30-50% of patients require re- treatment. Two clinical trials at Guy’s Hospital have shown how the ‘smart stethoscope’ can ameliorate this prob- lem by providing, during treatment, feedback on the effectiveness of the shock wave treatment.
Precision Acoustics Ltd. has
received requests for units from Europe, USA and Asia. The clinical results have been published in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (34(10), 1651–1665, 2008) and the first of the CFD studies was published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (598, 1-25, 2008). Further details can be found at: http://www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/fdag/Litho _07/litho_07(main).htm
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2009
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Inter-noise 2008, Shanghai, China [www.internoise2008.org]
XX Session of the Russian Acoustical Society, Moscow, Russia [rao.ankin.ru] Autumn Conference of the Swiss Acoustical Society, Lansanne, Switzerland [www.sga- ssa.ch]
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Bejjing, China [ewh.ieee.org/conf/ius_2008] Iberoamerican Acoustics Congress (FIA 2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina [www.adaa.org.ar]
20th Session of the Russian Acoustical Society, Moscow, Russia [www.akin.ru] Reproduced Sound 24, Brighton, UK [ioa.org.uk]
Australian Acoustical Society National Conference, Geelong, Vic., Australia [www.acoustics.asn.an]
18th Biennial Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Adelaide, Australia [www.aipc2008.com]
19th International Acoustics Emission Symposium, Kyoto, Japan [www.iaes- kyoto.com/index.html]
Symposium on the Acoustics of Poro-Elastic Materials (SAPEM 2008), Bradford, UK [sapem2008.matelys.com]
International Congress on Ultrasonics, Santiago, Chile [www.icaltrasonics.com]
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International Conference on Acoustics (NAG/DAGA 2009), Rotterdam, The Netherlands [www.nag-daga.nl]
Noise and Vibration: Emerging Methods (NOVEM 2009), Oxford, UK [www.isvr.spton.ac.uk/NOVEM2009]
2nd International Conference on Shallow Water Acoustics, Shanghai, China [soon: www.apl.washington.edu]
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei. R.O.C. [icassp09.com]
16th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Krakow, Poland [www.icsv16.org] Inter-noise 2009, Ottawa, Ont., Canada [www.internoise2009.com]
Inter-Speech 2009, Brighton, UK [www.interspeech2009.org]
IEEE 2009 Ultrasonics Symposium, Rome, Italy [e-mail: pappalar@uniroma3.it] TECNIACUSTICA2010, Caˇdiz, Spain [www.sea-acustica.es]
Euronoise 2009, Edinburgh, UK [www.euronoise2009.org.uk]
INTERNOISE2010, Lisbon, Portugal, [www.internoise2010.org]
20th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2010), Sydney, Australia [www.ica2010sydney.org]
Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan [www.interspeech2010.org]
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