Ultrasound contrast agents from microbubbles to biogenic gas vesicles

W Zeng, X Yue, Z Dai - Medical Review, 2023 - degruyter.com
Microbubbles have been the earliest and most widely used ultrasound contrast agents by
virtue of their unique features: such as non-toxicity, intravenous injectability, ability to cross …

Ultrasound/radiation-responsive emulsions

G Calderó, G Paradossi - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The design of emulsions containing systems able to respond to different kinds of
perturbations is attracting increasing interest for biomedical purposes. Emulsions of phase …

Hybrid-supervised deep learning for domain transfer 3D protoacoustic Image reconstruction

Y Lang, Z Jiang, L Sun, L Xiang… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Protoacoustic imaging showed great promise in providing real-time 3D dose
verification of proton therapy. However, the limited acquisition angle in protoacoustic …

Potential of BPA functionalized poly (vinylalcohol)-shelled perfluorobutane nanodroplets towards enhanced boron neutron capture therapy and in-situ dosimetry

Y Toumia, E Lunetta, M Carr, S Borgia, E Tortorella… - Applied Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract p-boronophenylalanine (BPA) is so far the most promising drug in clinical boron
neutron capture therapy (BNCT) due to its safety and selective targeting of numerous cancer …

Thermoacoustic range verification during pencil beam delivery of a clinical plan to an abdominal imaging phantom

SK Patch, C Nguyen, D Dominguez-Ramirez… - Radiotherapy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this phantom study is to demonstrate that thermoacoustic range
verification could be performed clinically. Thermoacoustic emissions generated in an …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal distribution of nanodroplet vaporization in a proton beam using real-time ultrasound imaging for range verification

G Collado-Lara, SV Heymans, M Rovituso… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2022 - Elsevier
The potential of proton therapy to improve the conformity of the delivered dose to the tumor
volume is currently limited by range uncertainties. Injectable superheated nanodroplets …

Single pulse protoacoustic range verification using a clinical synchrocyclotron

J Caron, G Gonzalez, PK Pandey… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Proton therapy as the next generation radiation-based cancer therapy offers
dominant advantages over conventional radiation therapy due to the utilization of the Bragg …

Microfluidic preparation of various perfluorocarbon nanodroplets: Characterization and determination of acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) threshold

R Melich, P Bussat, L Morici, A Vivien, E Gaud… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, liquid perfluorocarbon nanodroplets (PFC-NDs), also known as
Phase Change Contrast Agents (PCCAs), that are capable of vaporizing into gaseous …

Modulating ultrasound contrast generation from injectable nanodroplets for proton range verification by varying the degree of superheat

SV Heymans, B Carlier, Y Toumia, S Nooijens… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Despite the physical benefits of protons over conventional photon radiation in
cancer treatment, range uncertainties impede the ability to harness the full potential of …

Real-time volumetric ultrasound research platform with 1024 parallel transmit and receive channels

C Risser, H Hewener, M Fournelle, H Fonfara… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Multi-channel ultrasound platform for research in volumetric imaging
with matrix arrays. Abstract Volumetric ultrasound imaging is of great importance in many …