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Ballistic technology

La litotrissia balistica è in grado di frantumare anche i calcoli più duri delle vie urinarie.

WHY BALLISTIC?

Per la frammentazione efficace grossolana di calcoli urinari duri e di grosse dimensioni.

  • Percentuali di stone-free elevate
  • Elevati livelli di sicurezza per i tessuti
  • Tempi di frammentazione ed eliminazione rapidi
  • Frammentazione precisa
  • Leggera, ergonomica e maneggevole
  • Il Gold Standard nella litotrissia sicura dei calcoli ureterali
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Shock waves

BALLISTIC WORKING PRINCIPLE

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Newton's Craddle

The working principle is based on Newton’s law of impulse transmission as demonstrated by the Newton’s cradle: kinetic energy of a projectile is transmitted via the probe onto the stone.

Compressed air is being used to accelerate the projectile to generate ballistic energy in the handpiece of the Swiss LithoClast®.

The projectile is precision guided to within micrometer precision, so that it reaches a high speed by a controlled burst of compressed air.

When the projectile hits the probe mounted in the handpiece, a shock wave is transmitted through the probe to the calculus. Due to the different acoustic characteristics of the metal probe and the stone an inelastic impulse transmission occurs which leads to fast and effective stone fragmentation.