Introduction: Recent developments in ultrasound imaging and ultrasound contrast agents
(UCAs) improved diagnostic confidence in echography and set into motion their combined …

As a special cross‐disciplinary research frontier, nanoultrasonic biomedicine refers to the
design and synthesis of nanomaterials to solve some critical issues of ultrasound (US) …

A multifunctional drug delivery vehicle, which combines the active targeted mesoporous
silica nanoparticle (MSN) and microbubble (MB) drug delivery system, is proposed and …

Re-establishing blood supply is the primary goal for reducing myocardial injury in subjects
with ischemic heart disease. Paradoxically, reperfusion results in nitroxidative stress and a …

Aqueous suspensions of microbubbles are being used in various biomedical applications
such as contrast imaging, targeted drug and gene delivery, delivery of drugs through blood …

Sonoporation is emerging as a feasible, non-viral gene delivery platform for the treatment of
cardiovascular disease and cancer. Despite promising results, this approach remains less …

The Concise Encyclopedia of Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric Biomaterials presents
new and selected content from the 11-volume Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric …

We present a microfluidic technique that shrinks lipid-stabilized microbubbles from O (100)
to O (1) μm in diameter–the size that is desirable in applications as ultrasound contrast …

Ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction (UTMD) is a novel technique that is used to
deliver a gene or other bioactive substance to organs of living animals in a noninvasive …

Intravenous ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction (IV-UTMD) has made distinct but
limited progress in gene therapy. Intracoronary (IC) injection may lead to more gene …