Ultrasound is widely used for medical diagnosis and increasingly for therapeutic purposes.
An understanding of the bio-effects of sonography is important for clinicians and scientists …

▪ Abstract Ultrasound is used widely in medicine as both a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.
Through both thermal and nonthermal mechanisms, ultrasound can produce a variety of …

PURPOSE: To determine if focused ultrasound beams can be used to locally open the blood-
brain barrier without damage to surrounding brain tissue and if magnetic resonance (MR) …

Background—We have previously shown that the application of ultrasound to thin-shelled
microbubbles flowing through small microvessels (< 7 μm in diameter) produces vessel wall …

Gas-filled microbubbles, with the size of several micrometres, are strong scatterers of
ultrasound waves used in diagnostic imaging. Application of these microbubbles as …

Previous in vivo studies have demonstrated that microvessel hemorrhages and alterations of
endothelial permeability can be produced in tissues containing microbubble-based …

Interaction of diagnostic ultrasound with gas bodies produces a useful contrast effect in
medical images, but the same interaction also represents a mechanism for bioeffects …

Rupture of small blood vessels is a primary feature of the vascular injury associated with
shock-wave lithotripsy (SWL) and cavitation has been implicated as a potential mechanism …

Ultrasound-triggered microbubbles destruction leading to vascular shutdown have resulted
in preclinical studies in tumor growth delay or inhibition, lesion formation, radio-sensitization …

Elastography for the pancreas can be performed by either ultrasound or endoscopic
ultrasound (EUS). There are two types of pancreatic elastographies based on different …