Initial reports from the 1960s describing the observations of ultrasound contrast
enhancement by tiny gaseous bubbles during echocardiographic examinations prompted …

Ultrasound is extensively used in medical imaging, being safe and inexpensive and
operating in real time. Its scope of applications has been widely broadened by the use of …

Bubbles are present in a large variety of emerging applications, from advanced materials to
biology and medicine, as either laser-generated or acoustically driven bubbles. In these …

Microbubbles are micrometer-size gaseous particles suspended in water, and they are often
stabilized by a lipid monolayer shell. Natural microbubbles are found in freshwater and …

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

Micrometer-scale encapsulated gas bubbles, known as ultrasound contrast agents, are used
in ultrasound medical diagnostics for enhancing blood-tissue contrast during an ultrasonic …

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 …

The acoustic response of phospholipid-coated microbubble ultrasound contrast agents
(UCA) is dramatically affected by their stabilizing shell. The interfacial shell elasticity …

We introduce a model that describes spherical oscillations of encapsulated microbubbles in
an unbounded surrounding fluid. A Rayleigh–Plesset-like equation is derived by coupling …