This review offers a critical analysis of the state of the art of medical microbubbles and their
application in therapeutic delivery and monitoring. When driven by an ultrasonic pulse …

Ultrasound provides a valuable tool for medical diagnosis offering real-time imaging with
excellent spatial resolution and low cost. The advent of microbubble contrast agents has …

Converting nanoparticles or monomeric compounds into larger supramolecular structures by
endogenous, or external, stimuli is increasingly popular because these materials are useful …

The first generation of nanomedicine exhibits superior performance in the clinical treatment
of various cancers compared to free conventional anticancer therapeutics. However, poor …

Microbubbles are used as ultrasonic contrast agents that enhance the ultrasound signals of
the vascular bed. The recent development of site-targeted microbubbles opened up the …

Gas diffusion from an encapsulated microbubble is modeled using an explicit linear relation
for gas permeation through the encapsulation. Both the cases of single gas (air) and multiple …

A model for gas transport from an encapsulated microbubble into the surrounding medium is
developed and investigated incorporating the effects of encapsulation elasticity …

Micron-size bubbles encapsulated by a stabilizing layer of surface-active materials are used
in medical ultrasound imaging and drug delivery. Their destruction stimulated by ultrasound …

In recent years, our knowledge of the behaviour of ultrasonic microbubble contrast agents
has improved substantially through in vitro experiments. However, there has been a …

Echogenic liposomes (ELIP) are submicron-sized phospholipid vesicles that contain both
gas and fluid. With antibody conjugation and drug incorporation, these liposomes can be …