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. 2011 Nov;130(5):3467-71.
doi: 10.1121/1.3626122.

Shear strain from irrotational tissue displacements near bubbles

Edwin Carstensen  1 , Sheryl M Gracewski, Diane Dalecki
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Shear strain from irrotational tissue displacements near bubbles

Edwin Carstensen et al. J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Nov.

Abstract

Particle displacements can be much greater near bubbles than they would be in a homogeneous liquid or tissue when exposed to an acoustic wave. In a plane wave, shear and bulk strains are of the same order of magnitude. In contrast, for a bubble oscillating close to its resonance frequency, the shear strain in the medium near the bubble is roughly four orders of magnitude greater than the bulk strain. This can lead to shear strains of a few percent even with acoustic excitation pressures far below the pressure thresholds required to cause inertial cavitation. High shear strains near oscillating bubbles could potentially be the cause of bioeffects. After acoustic exposures at audio frequencies, hemorrhages in tissues as diverse as lung, liver, and kidney have been observed at shear strains on the order of 1%.

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