[HTML][HTML] Contrast-enhanced and targeted ultrasound

M Postema, OH Gilja - World journal of gastroenterology: WJG, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ultrasonic imaging is becoming the most popular medical imaging modality, owing to the
low price per examination and its safety. However, blood is a poor scatterer of ultrasound …

Ultrasound-directed drug delivery

M Postema, OH Gilja - Current pharmaceutical biotechnology, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
It has been proven, that the cellular uptake of drugs and genes is increased, when the
region of interest is under ultrasound insonification, and even more when a contrast agent is …

[HTML][HTML] Resonance behaviors of encapsulated microbubbles oscillating nonlinearly with ultrasonic excitation

D Qin, S Lei, X Wang, X Zhong, X Ji, Z Li - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The resonance behaviors of a few lipid-coated microbubbles acoustically activated in
viscoelastic media were comprehensively examined via radius response analysis. The size …

Influence of the pressure-dependent resonance frequency on the bifurcation structure and backscattered pressure of ultrasound contrast agents: a numerical …

AJ Sojahrood, O Falou, R Earl, R Karshafian… - Nonlinear …, 2015 - Springer
The bifurcation structure of the oscillations of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) was studied
as a function of the driving pressure for excitation frequencies that were determined using …

Aptamer-conjugated nanobubbles for targeted ultrasound molecular imaging

CH Wang, YF Huang, CK Yeh - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
Targeted ultrasound contrast agents can be prepared by some specific bioconjugation
techniques. The biotin–avidin complex is an extremely useful noncovalent binding system …

[HTML][HTML] GPU accelerated study of a dual-frequency driven single bubble in a 6-dimensional parameter space: The active cavitation threshold

F Hegedűs, K Klapcsik, W Lauterborn, U Parlitz… - Ultrasonics …, 2020 - Elsevier
The active cavitation threshold of a dual-frequency driven single spherical gas bubble is
studied numerically. This threshold is defined as the minimum intensity required to generate …

Improving tribological properties of (Zn–Ni)/nano Al2O3 composite coatings produced by ultrasonic assisted pulse plating

SA Ataie, A Zakeri - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study pulse electroplating was used to deposit the composite coating of (Zn–Ni)
strengthened by Al 2 O 3 nanoparticles on mild steel plate. The effect of Al 2 O 3 fraction and …

A novel technology: microfluidic devices for microbubble ultrasound contrast agent generation

H Lin, J Chen, C Chen - Medical & biological engineering & computing, 2016 - Springer
Microbubbles are used as ultrasound contrast agents, which enhance ultrasound imaging
techniques. In addition, microbubbles currently show promise in disease therapeutics …

Investigating the significance of multiple scattering in ultrasound contrast agent particle populations

E Stride, N Saffari - ieee transactions on ultrasonics …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The majority of the existing models describing the behavior of microbubble ultrasound
contrast agents consider single, isolated microbubbles suspended in infinite media. The …

Bubble dynamics involved in ultrasonic imaging

M Postema, G Schmitz - Expert review of molecular diagnostics, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
In clinical ultrasound, blood cells cannot be differentiated from surrounding tissue, due to the
low acoustic impedance difference between blood cells and their surroundings. Resonant …