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Experimental arrangement to visualize crevice bubbles on the kidney stone surface by expanding them with a lithotripter pulse. Stones were placed pre-focal and off axis and were visualized with a high-speed camera and ultrasound transducer when the lithotripter pulse (inset) arrived.