Ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles have expanded the utility of biomedical ultrasound
from anatomic imaging to the assessment of microvascular blood flow characteristics and …

The merits of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) were already known in the 1960s. It was,
however, not until the 1990s that UCAs were clinically approved and marketed. In these …

Ultrasound-driven microbubbles, typically between 1 and 8 µm in diameter, are resonant
scatterers that are employed as diagnostic contrast agents and emerging as potentiators of …

Introduction: Treatment of several diseases of the brain are complicated by the presence of
the skull and the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Focused ultrasound (FUS) and microbubble …

The high efficiency with which gas microbubbles can scatter ultrasound compared with the
surrounding blood pool or tissues has led to their widespread employment as contrast …

Lipid-coated microbubbles are used clinically as contrast agents for ultrasound imaging and
are being developed for a variety of therapeutic applications. The lipid encapsulation and …

There is a growing interest in microbubble based ultrasound contrast imaging applications
in the 5–15 MHz range. In this study, individual microbubbles were insonified at low …

A lipid coated bubble (LCB) oscillator is a very interesting non-smooth oscillator with many
important applications ranging from industry and chemistry to medicine. However, due to the …

Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) are used routinely in the clinic to enhance contrast in
ultrasonography. More recently, UCAs have been functionalised by conjugating ligands to …

For successful in vivo contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging (CEUS) and ultrasound
molecular imaging, detailed knowledge of stability and acoustical properties of the …