Bursting microbubbles: How nanobubble contrast agents can enable the future of medical ultrasound molecular imaging and image-guided therapy

AA Exner, MC Kolios - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
The field of medical ultrasound has undergone a significant evolution since the development
of microbubbles as contrast agents. However, because of their size, microbubbles remain in …

Probing the pressure dependence of sound speed and attenuation in bubbly media: Experimental observations, a theoretical model and numerical calculations

AJ Sojahrood, Q Li, H Haghi, R Karshafian… - Ultrasonics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The problem of attenuation and sound speed of bubbly media has remained partially
unsolved. Comprehensive data regarding pressure-dependent changes of the attenuation …

Nonlinear dynamics of acoustic bubbles excited by their pressure-dependent subharmonic resonance frequency: influence of the pressure amplitude, frequency …

AJ Sojahrood, R Earl, H Haghi, Q Li, TM Porter… - Nonlinear …, 2021 - Springer
Nonlinear behavior of bubbles, and most importantly 1 2 1 2-order subharmonics (SH), are
used to increase the contrast-to-tissue ratio (CTR) in diagnostic ultrasound (US) and to …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of the interaction of nanobubble ultrasound contrast agents with human blood components

MB Cooley, EC Abenojar, D Wegierak, AS Gupta… - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoscale ultrasound contrast agents, or nanobubbles, are being explored in preclinical
applications ranging from vascular and cardiac imaging to targeted drug delivery in cancer …

Classification of the major nonlinear regimes of oscillations, oscillation properties, and mechanisms of wave energy dissipation in the nonlinear oscillations of coated …

AJ Sojahrood, H Haghi, R Karshafian, MC Kolios - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic waves are dissipated when they pass through bubbly media. Dissipation by
bubbles takes place through thermal damping (Td), radiation damping (Rd), and damping …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear power loss in the oscillations of coated and uncoated bubbles: Role of thermal, radiation and encapsulating shell damping at various excitation …

AJ Sojahrood, H Haghi, Q Li, TM Porter… - Ultrasonics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents the fundamental equations governing the pressure dependent disipation
mechanisms in the oscillations of coated bubbles. A simple generalized model (GM) for …

[HTML][HTML] Physico-mathematical model for multiple ultrasound-contrast-agent microbubbles encapsulated by a visco-elastic shell: Effect of shell compressibility on …

Y Kikuchi, T Kanagawa, T Ayukai - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to its potential for application in ultrasound-based diagnosis and therapy, the
dynamics of a microbubble encapsulated by shells has long been theoretically investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Weakly nonlinear propagation of focused ultrasound in bubbly liquids with a thermal effect: Derivation of two cases of Khokolov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsoz …

S Kagami, T Kanagawa - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
A physico-mathematical model composed of a single equation that consistently describes
nonlinear focused ultrasound, bubble oscillations, and temperature fluctuations is …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear acoustic theory on flowing liquid containing multiple microbubbles coated by a compressible visco-elastic shell: Low and high frequency cases

T Kanagawa, M Honda, Y Kikuchi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Microbubbles coated by visco-elastic shells are important for ultrasound diagnosis using
contrast agents, and the dynamics of single coated bubbles has been investigated in the …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of initial bubble radius distribution to weakly nonlinear waves with a long wavelength in bubbly liquids

T Kanagawa, R Ishitsuka, S Arai, T Ayukai - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, the weakly nonlinear propagation of plane progressive pressure waves in an
initially quiescent liquid was theoretically investigated. This liquid contains several small …