Ultrasound-guided thermal ablation for hyperparathyroidism: current status and prospects

Z Chen, L Cheng, W Zhang, W He - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is classified into primary HPT (PHPT), secondary
HPT (SHPT), tertiary HPT (THPT), and pseudohyperparathyroidism. Parathyroid surgery is …

Drug-loaded nanoparticles conjugated with genetically engineered bacteria for cancer therapy

Y Du, L Lin, Z Zhang, Y Tang, X Ou, Y Wang… - … and Biophysical Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drug-loaded nanoparticles have been widely used as synergists in high-intensity focused
ultrasound (HIFU) tumor ablation therapy. However, these synergists have certain …

The comparison of myomectomy, UAE and MRgFUS in the treatment of uterine fibroids: a meta analysis

F Xu, L Deng, L Zhang, H Hu, Q Shi - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objective To compare the re-intervention rates of myomectomy, uterine artery embolization
(UAE) and magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) for uterine …

Controlled degradation of polycaprolactone polymers through ultrasound stimulation

TJ Yeingst, JH Arrizabalaga… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This study describes the development of an ultrasound-responsive polymer system that
provides on-demand degradation when exposed to high-intensity focused ultrasound …

MR relaxation times of agar‐based tissue‐mimicking phantoms

A Antoniou, L Georgiou, T Christodoulou… - Journal of applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agar gels were previously proven capable of accurately replicating the acoustical and
thermal properties of real tissue and widely used for the construction of tissue‐mimicking …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear acoustic theory on flowing liquid containing multiple microbubbles coated by a compressible visco-elastic shell: Low and high frequency cases

T Kanagawa, M Honda, Y Kikuchi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Microbubbles coated by visco-elastic shells are important for ultrasound diagnosis using
contrast agents, and the dynamics of single coated bubbles has been investigated in the …

Frequency-multiplexed transmitted-wave manipulation with multifunctional acoustic metasurfaces

H Cheng, J Guo, X Zhang, W Ye - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Passive metasurfaces are known for their fixed and usually single-wave manipulation
functionality, which limits their potential applications for diverse scenarios. To expand the …

Phenothiazines alter plasma membrane properties and sensitize cancer cells to injury by inhibiting annexin-mediated repair

ASB Heitmann, AAH Zanjani, MB Klenow… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Repair of damaged plasma membrane in eukaryotic cells is largely dependent on the
binding of annexin repair proteins to phospholipids. Changing the biophysical properties of …

Sound waves for solving the problem of recrystallization in cryopreservation

E Alcalá, L Encabo, F Barroso, A Puentes, I Risco… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Organ biobanking is the pending subject of cryopreservation. Although the problem is
multifaceted, advances in recent decades have largely related it to achieving rapid and …

Focused ultrasound enables selective actuation and Newton-level force output of untethered soft robots

B Hao, X Wang, Y Dong, M Sun, C Xin, H Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Untethered miniature soft robots have significant application potentials in biomedical and
industrial fields due to their space accessibility and safe human interaction. However, the …