Drug delivery systems, CNS protection, and the blood brain barrier

RK Upadhyay - BioMed research international, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Present review highlights various drug delivery systems used for delivery of pharmaceutical
agents mainly antibiotics, antineoplastic agents, neuropeptides, and other therapeutic …

Ultrasound contrast imaging: Fundamentals and emerging technology

H Yusefi, B Helfield - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The development of microbubble contrast agents has broadened the scope of medical
ultrasound imaging. Along with dedicated imaging techniques, these agents provide …

PROTEUS: A Physically Realistic Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Simulator—Part I: Numerical Methods

N Blanken, B Heiles, A Kuliesh… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound contrast agents have been used as vascular reporters for the past 40 years. The
ability to enhance vascular features in ultrasound images with engineered lipid-shelled …

Portal vein pressure estimation and portal hypertension discrimination based on subharmonic scattering of ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles

G Xu, Y Wang, H Lu, C Li, L Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: The acquisition of real-time portal vein pressure (PVP) is important for portal
hypertension (PH) discrimination to monitor disease progress and select treatment options …

Noninvasive blood pressure estimation using ultrasound and simple finite element models

AM Zakrzewski, BW Anthony - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Many commercially available arterial blood pressure measurement devices suffer
from a range of weaknesses. For example, common weaknesses include being inaccurate …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity improvement of subharmonic-based pressure measurement using phospholipid-coated monodisperse microbubbles

P Wang, C Tan, X Ji, J Bai, CH Alfred, P Qin - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of the subharmonic signal from microbubbles exposed to ultrasound is a promising
safe and cost-effective approach for the non-invasive measurement of blood pressure …

Real-time blood pressure estimation from force-measured ultrasound

AM Zakrzewski, AY Huang, R Zubajlo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Our objective is to create a blood pressure measurement device, which may
provide a way to easily acquire frequent measurements. Common techniques to measure …

Noninvasive pressure estimation based on the subharmonic response of SonoVue: Application to intracranial blood pressure assessment

X Qiao, Y Wen, J Yu, A Bouakaz… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intracranial blood pressure can directly reflect the status of blood vessels in real time.
However, it can only be estimated invasively using a microcatheter during craniotomy …

Improvement of detection sensitivity of microbubbles as sensors to detect ambient pressure

F Li, D Li, F Yan - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Microbubbles are considered a promising tool for noninvasive estimation of local blood
pressure. It is reported that the subharmonic scattering amplitude of microbubbles …

On the acoustic properties of vaporized submicron perfluorocarbon droplets

N Reznik, G Lajoinie, O Shpak, EC Gelderblom… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2014 - Elsevier
The acoustic characteristics of microbubbles created from vaporized submicron
perfluorocarbon droplets with fluorosurfactant coating are examined. Utilizing ultra-high …