Ultrasound-mediated nano drug delivery for treating cancer: Fundamental physics to future directions

FM Kashkooli, A Jakhmola, TK Hornsby… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of biocompatible nanocarriers in medicine has provided several benefits
over conventional treatment methods. However, achieving high treatment efficacy and deep …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling acoustic emissions and shock formation of cavitation bubbles

F Denner, S Schenke - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Despite significant progress in understanding and foretelling pressure-driven bubble
dynamics, models that faithfully predict the emitted acoustic waves and the associated shock …

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 …

Nanobubble Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging: A Review

D Wegierak, P Nittayacharn, MB Cooley… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Contrast‐enhanced ultrasound is currently used worldwide with clinical indications in
cardiology and radiology, and it continues to evolve and develop through innovative …

[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 …

Buckling of lipidic ultrasound contrast agents under quasi-static load

G Chabouh, B van Elburg… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Collapse of lipidic ultrasound contrast agents under high-frequency compressive load has
been historically interpreted by the vanishing of surface tension. By contrast, buckling of …

[HTML][HTML] An optical and acoustic investigation of microbubble cavitation in small channels under therapeutic ultrasound conditions

X Zhao, A Wright, DE Goertz - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Therapeutic focused ultrasound in combination with encapsulated microbubbles is being
widely investigated for its ability to elicit bioeffects in the microvasculature, such as transient …

[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] 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 …

Nonlinear frequency mixing ultrasound imaging of nanoscale contrast agents

KT Karlinsky, M Bismuth, R Aronovich… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Nanoscale ultrasound contrast agents show promise as alternatives for
diagnostics and therapies due to their enhanced stability and ability to traverse blood …