Towards controlled drug delivery in brain tumors with microbubble-enhanced focused ultrasound

S Schoen Jr, MS Kilinc, H Lee, Y Guo… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain tumors are particularly challenging malignancies, due to their location in a structurally
and functionally distinct part of the human body–the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS …

Therapeutic oxygen delivery by perfluorocarbon-based colloids

MP Krafft, JG Riess - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
After the protocol-related indecisive clinical trial of Oxygent, a perfluorooctylbromide/
phospholipid nanoemulsion, in cardiac surgery, that often unduly assigned the observed …

A clinical system for non-invasive blood–brain barrier opening using a neuronavigation-guided single-element focused ultrasound transducer

AN Pouliopoulos, SY Wu, MT Burgess… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening is currently being
investigated in clinical trials. Here, we describe a portable clinical system with a therapeutic …

Application of a sub–0.1-mm3 implantable mote for in vivo real-time wireless temperature sensing

C Shi, V Andino-Pavlovsky, SA Lee, T Costa… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
There has been increasing interest in wireless, miniaturized implantable medical devices for
in vivo and in situ physiological monitoring. Here, we present such an implant that uses a …

Acoustically targeted chemogenetics for the non-invasive control of neural circuits

JO Szablowski, A Lee-Gosselin, B Lue… - Nature biomedical …, 2018 - nature.com
Neurological and psychiatric disorders are often characterized by dysfunctional neural
circuits in specific regions of the brain. Existing treatment strategies, including the use of …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound-mediated disruption of the blood tumor barrier for improved therapeutic delivery

TA Arsiwala, SA Sprowls, KE Blethen, CE Adkins… - Neoplasia, 2021 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major anatomical and physiological barrier limiting the
passage of drugs into brain. Central nervous system tumors can impair the BBB by changing …

[HTML][HTML] Using a novel rapid alternating steering angles pulse sequence to evaluate the impact of theranostic ultrasound-mediated ultra-short pulse length on blood …

AJ Batts, R Ji, RL Noel, AR Kline-Schoder, S Bae… - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening is a
noninvasive, safe and reversible technique for targeted drug delivery to the brain. Most …

In vivo imaging of sterile microglial activation in rat brain after disrupting the blood-brain barrier with pulsed focused ultrasound:[18F] DPA-714 PET study

S Sinharay, TW Tu, ZI Kovacs… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided pulsed focused ultrasound
combined with the infusion of microbubbles (pFUS+ MB) induces transient blood-brain …

Improved source localization in passive acoustic mapping using delay-multiply-and-sum beamforming with virtually augmented aperture

CC Shen, YA Chen, HY Ku - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a promising non-invasive treatment method
whose applications include tissue ablation, hemostasis, thrombolysis and blood–brain …

Focused ultrasound for noninvasive, focal pharmacologic neurointervention

JB Wang, T Di Ianni, DB Vyas, Z Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A long-standing goal of translational neuroscience is the ability to noninvasively deliver
therapeutic agents to specific brain regions with high spatiotemporal resolution. Focused …