Minimally invasive transcatheter embolization is a common nonsurgical procedure in
interventional radiology used for the deliberate occlusion of blood vessels for the treatment …

Embolization with microspheres is a therapeutic strategy based on the selective occlusion of
the blood vessels feeding a tumor. This procedure is intraarterially performed in the clinical …

Synthetic polymeric microspheres find application in a wide range of medical applications.
Among other applications, microspheres are being used as bulking agents, embolic-or drug …

Percutaneous transcatheter embolization procedures involve the selective occlusion of
blood vessels. Occlusive agents, referred to as embolics, vary in material characteristics …

When suspended particles are pushed by liquid flow through a constricted channel, they
might either pass the bottleneck without trouble or encounter a permanent clog that will stop …

Trauma continues to be the leading cause of death in the young population. Uncontrolled
bleeding is a major factor in early mortality after trauma, contributing to 30 to 40% of trauma …

Owing to improvements in catheters and embolic agents, renal artery embolization (RAE) is
increasingly used to treat nephrological and urological disease. RAE has become a useful …

Conventional transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and chemoembolization with drug-
eluting beads are increasingly being performed interchangeably in many institutions …

Nonspherical polymer particles (NPPs) are nano/micro-particulates of macromolecules that
are anisotropic in shape, and can be designed anisotropic in chemistry. Due to shape and …

Percutaneous vascular embolization is one of the major applications of interventional
radiology. A wide variety of embolization agents are currently available for clinical use. The …