Tornado-inspired acoustic vortex tweezer for trapping and manipulating microbubbles

WC Lo, CH Fan, YJ Ho, CW Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Spatially concentrating and manipulating biotherapeutic agents within the circulatory system
is a longstanding challenge in medical applications due to the high velocity of blood flow …

Formation of high-order acoustic Bessel beams by spiral diffraction gratings

N Jiménez, R Picó, V Sánchez-Morcillo… - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
The formation of high-order Bessel beams by a passive acoustic device consisting of an
Archimedes' spiral diffraction grating is theoretically, numerically, and experimentally …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustofluidic patterning inside capillary tubes using standing surface acoustic waves

S Maramizonouz, C Jia, M Rahmati, T Zheng… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Acoustofluidic platforms have great potentials to integrate capillary tubes for controlling and
manipulating microparticles and biological cells in both non-flowing and continuous-flow …

Acoustic devices for particle and cell manipulation and sensing

Y Qiu, H Wang, CEM Demore, DA Hughes… - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
An emerging demand for the precise manipulation of cells and particles for applications in
cell biology and analytical chemistry has driven rapid development of ultrasonic …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced neuronal activity in mouse motor cortex with microbubbles' oscillations by transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation

Z Cui, D Li, Y Feng, T Xu, S Wu, Y Li, A Bouakaz… - Ultrasonics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbubbles (MBs) are known to serve as an amplifier of the mechanical effects of
ultrasound, which combined with ultrasound are widely used in brain. The goal of this study …

3-D ultrafast ultrasound imaging of microbubbles trapped using an acoustic vortex

WC Lo, YL Huang, CH Fan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing the local concentration of microbubbles (MBs) within the blood flow plays a
crucial role in several medical applications, but there are few imaging modalities available …

Manipulation of nanodroplets via a nonuniform focused acoustic vortex

S Guo, X Guo, X Wang, X Du, P Wu, A Bouakaz… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Techniques for the manipulation of nanodroplets are central to many miniaturized systems in
chemical and biological research and applications. In this study, we demonstrate that the …

Combining acoustic trapping with plane wave imaging for localized microbubble accumulation in large vessels

L Nie, S Harput, DMJ Cowell… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The capability of accumulating microbubbles using ultrasound could be beneficial for
enhancing targeted drug delivery. When microbubbles are used to deliver a therapeutic …

Selecting the number and values of the cpwi steering angles and the effect of that on imaging quality

Z Alomari, S Harput, S Hyder… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compounded Plane-Wave Imaging (CPWI) has the ability to provide ultrafast imaging for
many applications like colour flow imaging, microbubble imaging and elastography. The …

Acoustic radiation force induced accumulation and dynamics of microbubbles on compliant surfaces

CN Acconcia, BYC Leung, G Winch… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasound stimulated microbubbles have been shown to be capable of breaking up blood
clots through micro-scale interactions occurring near the clot surface. However, only a small …