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  • 2013 - ASA Gold Medal, Acoustical Society of America For discovery and invention in physical and biomedical acoustics, and for leadership in acoustics worldwide.

Overview

Lawrence A. Crum is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in acoustics, particularly in the fields related to ultrasound and cavitation phenomena. Their expertise spans multiple interdisciplinary subjects including materials chemistry, ecology, oceanography, atmospheric science, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The researcher's body of work includes a variety of recent papers published in notable scientific venues. These include:

  • Understanding the impacts of anthropogenic sound on beaked whales (2023) in The "journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
  • The crevice model of cavitation inception (2021) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • David T. Blackstock and kidney stone lithotripsy (2021) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • The role of Logan Hargrove in the creation of the National Center for Physical Acoustics (2021) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • The importance of acoustic cavitation in the evolving technologies of therapeutic ultrasound (2021) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Tara M. Cox
  • Timothy J. Ragen
  • Andrew J. Read
  • E. Vos
  • Robin W. Baird

Lawrence A. Crum has published chiefly in these venues:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (7 publications)
  • The "journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue (1 publication)

The main topics covered in their research are:

  • Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments
  • Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
  • Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography

The subfields of study where their publications are categorized include Materials Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Lawrence A. Crum was awarded the ASA Gold Medal by the Acoustical Society of America in 2013 for their discovery and invention in physical and biomedical acoustics, as well as for leadership in acoustics worldwide.

Best Publications

  • Sonoluminescence and bubble dynamics for a single, stable, cavitation bubble

    D. Felipe Gaitan;Lawrence A. Crum;Charles C. Church;Ronald A. Roy

  • Noise-free real time ultrasonic imaging of a treatment site undergoing high intensity focused ultrasound therapy

    Shahram Vaezy;Roy W. Martin;Stephen J. Carter;George W. Keilman

  • Method and apparatus for medical procedures using high-intensity focused ultrasound

    Roy W. Martin;Lawrence A. Crum;Shahram Vaezy;Stephen J. Carter

  • Nonlinear bubble dynamics

    Andrea Prosperetti;Lawrence A. Crum;Kerry W. Commander

  • Physical mechanisms of the therapeutic effect of ultrasound (a review)

    M. R. Bailey;V. A. Khokhlova;O. A. Sapozhnikov;S. G. Kargl

  • Bjerknes forces on bubbles in a stationary sound field

    Lawrence A. Crum

  • Ultrasonic debridement of root canals: acoustic streaming and its possible role.

    Majina Ahmad;Thomas R. Pitt Ford;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Real-time visualization of high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment using ultrasound imaging

    Shahram Vaezy;Xuegong Shi;Roy W Martin;Emil Chi

  • Cavitation microjets as a contributory mechanism for renal calculi disintegration in ESWL.

    Lawrence A. Crum

  • Acoustic characterization of high intensity focused ultrasound fields: a combined measurement and modeling approach.

    Michael S. Canney;Michael R. Bailey;Lawrence A. Crum;Vera A. Khokhlova

  • High-intensity focused ultrasound selectively disrupts the blood-brain barrier in vivo.

    Ali H Mesiwala;Lindi Farrell;H.Jurgen Wenzel;Daniel L Silbergeld

  • Effects of nonlinear propagation, cavitation, and boiling in lesion formation by high intensity focused ultrasound in a gel phantom

    Vera A. Khokhlova;Michael R. Bailey;Justin A. Reed;Bryan W. Cunitz

  • Gel phantom for use in high-intensity focused ultrasound dosimetry

    Cyril Lafon;Vesna Zderic;Misty L. Noble;Jonathan C. Yuen

  • Ultrasonic debridement of root canals: an insight into the mechanisms involved.

    Majina Ahmad;Thomas R. Pitt Ford;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Measurements of the growth of air bubbles by rectified diffusion

    Lawrence A. Crum

  • Cavitation Bubble Cluster Activity in the Breakage of Kidney Stones by Lithotripter Shockwaves

    Yuriy A. Pishchalnikov;Oleg A. Sapozhnikov;Michael R. Bailey;James C. Williams

  • The significance of membrane changes in the safe and effective use of therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound.

    M A Dinno;M Dyson;S R Young;A J Mortimer

  • Inertial cavitation dose and hemolysis produced in vitro with or without Optison.

    Wen-Shiang Chen;Andrew A. Brayman;Thomas J. Matula;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Vascular effects induced by combined 1-MHz ultrasound and microbubble contrast agent treatments in vivo.

    Joo Ha Hwang;Andrew A. Brayman;Michael A. Reidy;Thomas J. Matula

  • Underwater sound produced by individual drop impacts and rainfall

    Hugh C. Pumphrey;L. A. Crum;L. Bjo;rno

  • Methods and devices for providing acoustic hemostasis

    Edward C. Driscoll;Lawrence A. Crum;Wing K. Law;Stan DeMarta

  • Shock-induced heating and millisecond boiling in gels and tissue due to high intensity focused ultrasound.

    Michael S. Canney;Vera A. Khokhlova;Vera A. Khokhlova;Olga V. Bessonova;Michael R. Bailey

  • Ultrasonic Debridement of Root Canals: Acoustic Cavitation and Its Relevance*

    M. Ahmad;T. R. Pitt Ford;L. A. Crum;A. J. Walton

  • Comments on the evolving field of sonochemistry by a cavitation physicist

    Lawrence A Crum

  • Use of overpressure to assess the role of bubbles in focused ultrasound lesion shape in vitro

    Michael R. Bailey;Lisa N. Couret;Oleg A. Sapozhnikov;Vera A. Khokhlova

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleg A. Sapozhnikov
Oleg A. Sapozhnikov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Vera A. Khokhlova
Vera A. Khokhlova Lomonosov Moscow State University
Thomas J. Matula
Thomas J. Matula University of Washington
Ronald A. Roy
Ronald A. Roy University of Oxford
Robin O. Cleveland
Robin O. Cleveland University of Oxford
Andrew P. Evan
Andrew P. Evan Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Andrea Prosperetti
Andrea Prosperetti University of Houston
Niren Murthy
Niren Murthy University of California, Berkeley
Hugh C. Pumphrey
Hugh C. Pumphrey University of Edinburgh
Patrick S. Stayton
Patrick S. Stayton University of Washington

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