Overcoming challenges in glioblastoma treatment: targeting infiltrating cancer cells and harnessing the tumor microenvironment

M Chiariello, G Inzalaco, V Barone… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GB) is a highly malignant primary brain tumor with limited treatment options
and poor prognosis. Despite current treatment approaches, including surgical resection …

[HTML][HTML] Transcranial blood-brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease patients using a portable focused ultrasound system with real-time 2-D cavitation mapping

S Bae, K Liu, AN Pouliopoulos, R Ji… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Focused ultrasound (FUS) in combination with microbubbles has recently
shown great promise in facilitating blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening for drug delivery and …

Focused ultrasound-mediated enhancement of blood–brain barrier permeability for brain tumor treatment: a systematic review of clinical trials

H Zhu, C Allwin, MG Bassous… - Journal of Neuro …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Brain tumors, particularly glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), present significant
prognostic challenges despite multimodal therapies, including surgical resection …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 2D spatiotemporal passive cavitation imaging and evaluation during ultrasound thrombolysis based on diagnostic ultrasound platform

Q Zhang, Y Zhu, G Zhang, H Xue, B Ding, J Tu… - Ultrasonics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Acoustic cavitation plays a critical role in various biomedical applications. However,
uncontrolled cavitation can lead to undesired damage to healthy tissues. Therefore, real …

[HTML][HTML] Transcranial Functional Ultrasound Imaging Detects Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Induced Hemodynamic Changes in Mouse and Nonhuman …

C Aurup, J Bendig, SG Blackman, EP McCune, S Bae… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Focused ultrasound (FUS) is an emerging noinvasive technique for neuromodulation in the
central nervous system (CNS). To evaluate the effects of FUS-induced neuromodulation …

A Transmit-Receive Phased Array for Microbubble-Mediated Focused Ultrasound Brain Therapy in Small Animals

Y Lin, D McMahon, RM Jones… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Focused ultrasound (FUS) combined with circulating microbubbles (MBs) can be employed
for non-invasive, localized agent delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Previous …

Overview of Therapeutic Ultrasound Applications and Safety Considerations: 2024 Update

KB Bader, F Padilla, KJ Haworth… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A 2012 review of therapeutic ultrasound was published to educate researchers and
physicians on potential applications and concerns for unintended bioeffects (doi …

Bi-modal confirmation of liposome delivery to the brain after focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening

C Payne, P Cressey, A Talianu, E Szychot, D Hargrave… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Focused ultrasound-mediated opening of the blood-brain barrier offers a great opportunity to
deliver therapeutics into hard-to-treat brain tumors such as glioblastoma multiforme or …

An improved scheme for passive cavitation imaging in high intensity focused ultrasound

S Chen, F Zhou, L Feng, K Yang, Z He, Y Chen… - … Signal Processing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Passive cavitation imaging (PCI) is an effective technique for monitoring high intensity
focused ultrasound (HIFU) procedure due to the correlation between cavitation activities and …