ČSN EN IEC 61846 ed. 2

This document is applicable to: - therapy equipment using extracorporeally induced focused pressure pulse waves; - therapy equipment producing focused mechanical energy excluding thermal energy. This document does not apply to percutaneous and laser lithotripsy equipment. This document does not apply to: - histotripsy or other therapeutic ultrasound bursts of longer time duration than that of the pressure pulse; - non-focused pressure pulse equipment. This document specifies: - measurable parameters which could be used in the declaration of the acoustic output of extracorpo-real focused pressure pulse equipment; - methods of measurement and characterization of the pressure field generated by focused pressure pulse equipment.