Feasibility of transcranial, localized drug-delivery in the brain of Alzheimer's-model mice using Focused Ultrasound

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 988-991

  Choi, James J ^a   Pernot, Mathieu ^a   Small, Scott A ^b   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Focused ultrasound; HIFU; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONICS;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIFU;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 33845650490     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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