Stimuli-responsive nanobubbles for biomedical applications

R Xiong, RX Xu, C Huang, S De Smedt… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive nanobubbles have received increased attention for their application in
spatial and temporal resolution of diagnostic techniques and therapies, particularly in …

Phase-shift nanodroplets as an emerging sonoresponsive nanomaterial for imaging and drug delivery applications

W Zhang, Y Shi, S Abd Shukor, A Vijayakumaran… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanodroplets–emerging phase-changing sonoresponsive materials–have attracted
substantial attention in biomedical applications for both tumour imaging and therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Bubble nucleation and dynamics in acoustic droplet vaporization: a review of concepts, applications, and new directions

M Aliabouzar, OD Kripfgans, JB Fowlkes… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of phase-shift droplets has broadened the scope of ultrasound-based
biomedical applications. When subjected to sufficient acoustic pressures, the …

Acoustic wave sparsely activated localization microscopy (AWSALM): Super-resolution ultrasound imaging using acoustic activation and deactivation of nanodroplets

G Zhang, S Harput, S Lin, K Christensen-Jeffries… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM) has revolutionized the field of fluorescence
microscopy by breaking the diffraction limit in spatial resolution. In this study,“acoustic wave …

A comparison of sonothrombolysis in aged clots between low-boiling-point phase-change nanodroplets and microbubbles of the same composition

J Kim, RM DeRuiter, L Goel, Z Xu, X Jiang… - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present enhanced cavitation erosion of blood clots exposed to low-boiling-point (− 2° C)
perfluorocarbon phase-change nanodroplets and pulsed ultrasound, as well as …

The use of ultrasound to release chemotherapeutic drugs from micelles and liposomes

SE Ahmed, AM Martins, GA Husseini - Journal of drug targeting, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Several drug delivery systems have been investigated to reduce the side effects of
chemotherapy by encapsulating the therapeutic agent in a nanosized carrier until it reaches …

A versatile gas-generator promoting drug release and oxygen replenishment for amplifying photodynamic-chemotherapy synergetic anti-tumor effects

X Wang, Y Mao, C Sun, Q Zhao, Y Gao, S Wang - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Excellent efficiency of combinational therapy of chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy
(PDT) highly depends on the amounts of drug and oxygen in tumor tissue. However, how to …

Fast acoustic wave sparsely activated localization microscopy: Ultrasound super-resolution using plane-wave activation of nanodroplets

G Zhang, S Harput, H Hu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Localization-based ultrasound super-resolution imaging using microbubble contrast agents
and phase-change nanodroplets has been developed to visualize microvascular structures …

High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation enhancement in vivo via phase-shift nanodroplets compared to microbubbles

LC Moyer, KF Timbie, PS Sheeran, RJ Price… - Journal of therapeutic …, 2015 - Springer
Background During high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) surgical procedures, there is a
need to rapidly ablate pathological tissue while minimizing damage to healthy tissue …

Sono-activated materials for enhancing focused ultrasound ablation: design and application in biomedicine

M Liao, J Du, L Chen, J Huang, R Yang, W Bao… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The ablation effect of focused ultrasound (FUS) has played an increasingly important role in
the biomedical field over the past decades, and its non-invasive features have great …