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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">143</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics – International Edition</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">RCPP</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">1011-6583</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2945-1922</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>PHARMAKON-Press</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.61873/GTQG1189</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">34725</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Review Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Comparative study of cavitation and extracorporeal shock wave therapy</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Karydi</surname>
            <given-names>Maria Rafaela</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Kefala</surname>
            <given-names>Vasiliki K.</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2222-8535</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Rallis</surname>
            <given-names>Efstathios</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Biskanaki</surname>
            <given-names>Foteini</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Department of Biomedical Sciences. School of Health and Care Sciences, University of West Attica, Campus 1, Athens, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>Department of Biomedical Sciences. School of Health and Care Sciences, University of West Attica, Campus 1</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Athens</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>17</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>38</volume>
      <issue>s1</issue>
      <fpage>37</fpage>
      <lpage>41</lpage>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Maria Rafaela Karydi, Vasiliki K. Kefala, Efstathios Rallis, Foteini Biskanaki</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Nowadays, a person’s body image is an important issue that affects cognitive function, and mental and physical health. Today, people seek to improve their body contours and reduce body fat through non-invasive, safe, painless, and comfortable solutions. These conditions have led to the rapid development of non-invasive devices that use the technology of ultrasound and help to immediately and effectively improve body image. In this article, two technologies are based on ultrasound. The first is cavitation, and the second is shock wave ultrasound that will be presented, their characteristics will be developed and they will be compared in terms of their effectiveness and their advantages among the currently available research data.</p>
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