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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2006 Dec;176(6 Pt 1):2706–2710. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.07.149

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Relationship between efficiency of stone comminution and coverage of the coupling interface by air pockets. Stone breakage (percent of mass lost) declined as air pockets covered more surface area of the coupling interface. At the bottom are digitized images from representative photographs of the coupling interface, with air pockets highlighted for better visibility.