State of the art on microbubble cavitation monitoring and feedback control for blood-brain-barrier opening using focused ultrasound

P Mondou, S Mériaux, F Nageotte… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a non-invasive and highly promising method for targeted and
reversible blood-brain barrier permeabilization. Numerous preclinical studies aim to …

Blood–brain barrier opening in a large animal model using closed-loop microbubble cavitation-based feedback control of focused ultrasound sonication

CY Chien, L Xu, CP Pacia, Y Yue, H Chen - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Focused ultrasound (FUS) in combination with microbubbles has been established as a
promising technique for noninvasive and localized Blood–brain barrier (BBB) opening. Real …

Advancements in ultrasound-mediated drug delivery for central nervous system disorders

CF Chuang, TN Phan, CH Fan, TT Vo Le… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Central nervous system (CNS) disorders present major therapeutic challenges
due to the presence of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and disease heterogeneity. The BBB …

Focused ultrasound–mediated liquid biopsy in a tauopathy mouse model

CP Pacia, J Yuan, Y Yue, EC Leuthardt, TLS Benzinger… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Neurodegenerative disorders (such as Alzheimer disease) characterized by the
deposition of various pathogenic forms of tau protein in the brain are collectively referred to …

Characterization of the targeting accuracy of a neuronavigation-guided transcranial FUS system in vitro, in vivo, and in silico

L Xu, CP Pacia, Y Gong, Z Hu, CY Chien… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Focused ultrasound (FUS)-enabled liquid biopsy (sonobiopsy) is an emerging technique for
the noninvasive and spatiotemporally controlled diagnosis of brain cancer by inducing blood …

Small volume blood-brain barrier opening in macaques with a 1 MHz ultrasound phased array

TJ Manuel, MK Sigona, MA Phipps, J Kusunose… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) has the potential to
deliver drugs to specific regions of the brain. The size of the BBB opening and ability to …

Image-guided focused ultrasound-mediated molecular delivery to breast cancer in an animal model

R Margolis, L Basavarajappa, J Li… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Tumors become inoperable due to their size or location, making neoadjuvant chemotherapy
the primary treatment. However, target tissue accumulation of anticancer agents is limited by …

CMUT for ultrafast passive cavitation detection during ultrasound-induced blood–brain barrier disruption: proof of concept study

C Cornu, L Jourdain, F Barcella, L Colin… - Physics in Medicine …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Cavitation dose monitoring plays a key role in ultrasound drug delivery to the
brain. The use of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) technology has a …

First-in-human prospective trial of sonobiopsy in glioblastoma patients using neuronavigation-guided focused ultrasound

J Yuan, L Xu, CY Chien, Y Yang, Y Yue, S Fadera… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Sonobiopsy is an emerging technology that combines focused ultrasound (FUS) with
microbubbles to enrich circulating brain disease-specific biomarkers for noninvasive …

Multimodal evaluation of blood-brain barrier opening in mice in response to low-intensity ultrasound and a claudin-5 binder

L Chen, J Song, G Richter-Stretton, W Lee… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major bottleneck in delivering therapeutics
to the brain. Treatment strategies to transiently open this barrier include focused ultrasound …