[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound-responsive cavitation nuclei for therapy and drug delivery

K Kooiman, S Roovers, SAG Langeveld… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Therapeutic ultrasound strategies that harness the mechanical activity of cavitation nuclei for
beneficial tissue bio-effects are actively under development. The mechanical oscillations of …

Ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier disruption for targeted drug delivery in the central nervous system

M Aryal, CD Arvanitis, PM Alexander… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The physiology of the vasculature in the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the
blood–brain barrier (BBB) and other factors, complicates the delivery of most drugs to the …

[HTML][HTML] For whom the bubble grows: physical principles of bubble nucleation and dynamics in histotripsy ultrasound therapy

KB Bader, E Vlaisavljevich, AD Maxwell - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Histotripsy is a focused ultrasound therapy for non-invasive tissue ablation. Unlike thermally
ablative forms of therapeutic ultrasound, histotripsy relies on the mechanical action of …

Ultrasound-guided drug delivery in cancer

SM Chowdhury, T Lee, JK Willmann - Ultrasonography, 2017‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent advancements in ultrasound and microbubble (USMB) mediated drug delivery
technology has shown that this approach can improve spatially confined delivery of drugs …

Nucleation, map** and control of cavitation for drug delivery

E Stride, C Coussios - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Acoustically driven bubbles produce a range of mechanical, thermal and chemical effects
that can be exploited in drug delivery applications. Significant improvements in the targeting …

A clinical system for non-invasive blood–brain barrier opening using a neuronavigation-guided single-element focused ultrasound transducer

AN Pouliopoulos, SY Wu, MT Burgess… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening is currently being
investigated in clinical trials. Here, we describe a portable clinical system with a therapeutic …

Three-dimensional transcranial microbubble imaging for guiding volumetric ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening

RM Jones, L Deng, K Leung, D McMahon… - …, 2018‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening recently entered
clinical testing for targeted drug delivery to the brain. Sources of variability exist in the …

Thermometry and ablation monitoring with ultrasound

MA Lewis, RM Staruch, R Chopra - International Journal of …, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this review we present the current status of ultrasound thermometry and ablation
monitoring, with emphasis on the diverse approaches published in the literature and with an …

Quantitative frequency-domain passive cavitation imaging

KJ Haworth, KB Bader, KT Rich… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive cavitation detection has been an instrumental technique for measuring cavitation
dynamics, elucidating concomitant bioeffects, and guiding ultrasound therapies. Recently …

Image-guided ultrasound phased arrays are a disruptive technology for non-invasive therapy

K Hynynen, RM Jones - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Focused ultrasound offers a non-invasive way of depositing acoustic energy deep into the
body, which can be harnessed for a broad spectrum of therapeutic purposes, including …