A comparison of the fragmentation thresholds and inertial cavitation doses of different ultrasound contrast agents

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 643-651

  Chen, Wen Shiang ^a   Matula, Thomas J ^a   Brayman, Andrew A ^a   Crum, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAVITATION; DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONICS;

INERTIAL CAVITATION; SHELL MATERIALS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

ALBUMIN; BISPHERES; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; NC 100100; POLYMER; SURFACTANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0037243861     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1529667     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. K. Tiemann, C. Pohl, T. Schlosser, J. Goenechea, M. Bruce, C. Veltmann, S. Kuntz, M. Bangard, and H. Becher, "Stimulated acoustic emission: pseudo-Doppler shifts seen during the destruction of nonmoving microbubbles," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 26, 1161-1167 (2000).
2. M. J. Blomley, T. Albrecht, D. O. Cosgrove, N. Patel, V. Jayaram, J. Butler-Barnes, R. J. Eckersley, A. Bauer, and R. Schlief, "Improved imaging of liver metastases with stimulated acoustic emission in the late phase of enhancement with the US contrast agent SHU 508A: early experience," Radiology 210, 409-416 (1999).
3. M. Blomley, T. Albrecht, D. Cosgrove, V. Jayaram, J. Butler-Barnes, and R. Eckersley, "Stimulated acoustic emission in liver parenchyma with Levovist," Lancet 351, 568-568 (1998).
4. P. J. A. Frinking, E. I. Cespedes, J. Kirkhorn, H. G. Torp, and N. de Jong, "A new ultrasound contrast imaging approach based on the combination of multiple imaging pulses and a separate release burst," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 48, 643-651 (2001).
5. R. A. Pelberg, K. Wei, N. Kamiyama, J. Sklenar, J. Bin, and S. Kaul, "Potential advantage of flash echocardiography for digital subtraction of B-mode images acquired during myocardial contrast echocardiography," J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr 12, 85-93 (1999).
6. K. Wei, A. R. Jayaweera, S. Firoozan, A. Linka, D. M. Skyba, and S. Kaul, "Quantification of myocardial blood flow with ultrasound-induced destruction of microbubbles administered as a constant venous infusion," Circulation 97, 473-483 (1998).
7. T. Schlosser, C. Pohl, C. Veltmann, S. Lohmaier, J. Goenechea, A. Ehlgen, J. Koster, D. Bimmel, S. Kuntz-Hehner, H. Becher, and K. Tiemann, "Feasibility of the flash-replenishment concept in renal tissue: which parameters affect the assessment of the contrast replenishment?," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 27, 937-944 (2001).
8. R. V. Shohet, S. Chen, Y. T. Zhou, Z. Wang, R. S. Meidell, R. H. Unger, and P. A. Grayburn, "Echocardiographic destruction of albumin microbubbles directs gene delivery to the myocardium," Circulation 101, 2554-2556 (2000).
9. C. Teupe, S. Richter, B. Fisslthaler, V. Randriamboavonjy, C. Ihling, I. Fleming, R. Busse, A. M. Zeiher, and S. Dimmeler, "Vascular gene transfer of phosphomimetic endothelial nitric oxide synthase (S1177D) using ultrasound-enhanced destruction of plasmid-loaded microbubbles improves vasoreactivity," Circulation 105, 1104-1109 (2002).
10. E. C. Unger, T P. McCreery, R. H. Sweitzer, V. E. Caldwell, and Y. Wu, "Acoustically active lipospheres containing paclitaxel: a new therapeutic ultrasound contrast agent," Invest. Radiol. 33, 886-892 (1998).
11. P. P. Chang, W. S. Chen, P. D. Mourad, S. L. Poliachik, and L. A. Crum, "Thresholds for inertial cavitation in Albunex suspensions under pulsed ultrasound conditions," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 48, 161-170 (2001).
12. J. E. Chomas, P. Dayton, J. Allen, K. Morgan, and K. W. Ferrara, "Mechanisms of contrast agent destruction," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 48, 232-248 (2001).
13. S. L. Poliachik, W. L. Chandler, P. D. Mourad, M. R. Bailey, S. Bloch, R. O. Cleveland, P. Kaczkowski, G. Keilman, T. Porter, and L. A. Crum. "Effect of high-intensity focused ultrasound on whole blood with and without microbubble contrast agent," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 25, 991-998 (1999).
14. E. Cramer and W. Lauterborn, "Acoustic cavitation noise spectra," Appl. Sci. Res. 38, 209-214 (1982).
15. W. Lauterborn and E. Cramer, "On the dynamics of acoustic cavitation noise spectra," Acustica 49, 280-287 (1981).
16. E. A. Nappiras, "Subharmonic and other low-frequency emission from bubbles in sound-irradiated field," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 46, 587-601 (1968).
17. F. Forsberg, W. T. Shi, and B. B. Goldberg, "Subharmonic imaging of contrast agents," Ultrasonics 38, 93-98 (2000).
18. P. M. Shankar, P. D. Krishna, and V. L. Newhouse, "Subharmonic back-scattering from ultrasound contrast agents," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2104-2110 (1999).
19. R. Basude and M. A. Wheatley, "Generation of ultraharmonics in surfactant based ultrasound contrast agents: use and advantages," Ultrasonics 39, 437-444 (2001).
20. J. Liu, T. N. Lewis, and M. R. Prausnitz, "Non-invasive assessment and control of ultrasound-mediated membrane permeabilization," Pharm. Res. 15, 918-924 (1998).
21. E. C. Everbach, I. R. Makin, M. Azadniv, and R. S. Meltzer, "Correlation of ultrasound-induced hemolysis with cavitation detector output in vitro," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 23, 619-624 (1997).
22. E. C. Everbach and C. W. Francis, "Cavitational mechanisms in ultrasound-accelerated thrombolysis at 1 MHz," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 26, 1153-1160 (2000).
23. M. W. Miller, E. C. Everbach, C. Cox, R. R. Knapp, A. A. Brayman, and T. A. Sherman, "A comparison of the hemolytic potential of Optison and Albunex in whole human blood in vitro: acoustic pressure, ultrasound frequency, donor and passive cavitation detection considerations," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 27, 709-721 (2001).
24. Point Biomedical, Microsphere Drug Delivery (Point Biomedical, 887L Industrial Road, San Carlos, CA 94070). This is available online at (http://www.pointbio.com/drugdelivery.htm)
25. R. E. Apfel and C. K. Holland, "Gauging the likelihood of cavitation from short-pulse, low-duty cycle diagnostic ultrasound," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 17, 179-185 (1991).
26. D. L. Miller and R. A. Gies, "Enhancement of ultrasonically-induced hemolysis by perfluorocarbon-based compared to air-based echo-contrast agents," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 24, 285-292 (1998).
27. D. L. Miller and R. A. Gies, "The influence of ultrasound frequency and gas-body composition on the contrast agent-mediated enhancement of vascular bioeffects in mouse intestine," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 26, 307-313 (2000).
28. A. Kabalnov, K. N. Makarov, and O. V. Shcherbakova, "Solubility of fluorocarbons in water as a key parameter determining fluorocarbon emulsion stability," J. Fluorine Chem. 50, 271-284 (1990).
29. D. R. Lide, The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000).
30. L. Hoff, "A comparison between three different contrast agents," in Acoustic Characterization of Contrast Agents for Medical Ultrasound Imaging (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2001), pp. 121-128.