Treatment of human pancreatic cancer using combined ultrasound, microbubbles, and gemcitabine: a clinical case study

S Kotopoulis, G Dimcevski, O Helge Gilja… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability and efficacy of inducing
sonoporation in a clinical setting, using commercially available technology, to increase the …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into sono-exfoliation mechanisms of graphite: In situ high-speed imaging studies and acoustic measurements

JA Morton, M Khavari, L Qin, BM Maciejewska… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of ultrasound and acoustic cavitation in liquid exfoliation of bulk layered
materials is a widely used method. However, despite extensive research, the fundamental …

Sonoporation-enhanced chemotherapy significantly reduces primary tumour burden in an orthotopic pancreatic cancer xenograft

S Kotopoulis, A Delalande, M Popa… - Molecular imaging and …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas remains one of the most lethal human cancers.
The high mortality rates associated with this form of cancer are subsequent to late-stage …

Cavitation in biomedicine

M Wan, Y Feng, G Ter Haar - Netherlands: Springer, 2015 - Springer
The definition of cavitation is the formation of bubbles/cavities in a liquid or other medium,
and the subsequent bubble dynamics. Cavitation has been studied in several scientific …

Focused ultrasound-induced cavitation sensitizes cancer cells to radiation therapy and hyperthermia

S Hu, X Zhang, M Unger, I Patties, A Melzer, L Landgraf - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Focused ultrasound (FUS) has become an important non-invasive therapy for solid tumor
ablation via thermal effects. The cavitation effect induced by FUS is thereby avoided but …

[HTML][HTML] Periodic shock-emission from acoustically driven cavitation clouds: A source of the subharmonic signal

K Johnston, C Tapia-Siles, B Gerold, M Postema… - Ultrasonics, 2014 - Elsevier
Single clouds of cavitation bubbles, driven by 254 kHz focused ultrasound at pressure
amplitudes in the range of 0.48–1.22 MPa, have been observed via high-speed …

Study interactions between fine particles and micron size bubbles generated by hydrodynamic cavitation

H Li, A Afacan, Q Liu, Z Xu - Minerals engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Interactions between fine subbituminous coal particles and micron size bubbles generated
by hydrodynamic cavitation were investigated. The experimental results showed that …

An analysis of the acoustic cavitation noise spectrum: The role of periodic shock waves

JH Song, K Johansen, P Prentice - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Research on applications of acoustic cavitation is often reported in terms of the features
within the spectrum of the emissions gathered during cavitation occurrence. There is …

Liquid lens with adjustable focus for ultrasonic imaging

Z Li, R Guo, C Fei, D Li, D Chen, C Zheng, R Wu… - Applied Acoustics, 2021 - Elsevier
An acoustic lens is an attractive device due to its superior ability to image and focus acoustic
beams. Nevertheless, the limitation of such a solid-phase device is apparent in that once an …

Size affects the stability of the photoacoustic conversion of gold nanorods

L Cavigli, M de Angelis, F Ratto, P Matteini… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Gold nanorods exhibit intense optical absorption bands in the near-infrared region of
principal interest for applications in biomedical optics, which originate from sharp plasmon …