Ultrasound therapy with drug loaded microcapsules

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 773-776

  Shi, William T ^a   Böhmer, Marcel ^a   Van Wamel, Annemieke ^b,c   Celebi, Muzaffer ^c   Klibanov, Alexander L ^b   Chin, Chien Ting ^a   Chlon, Ceciel ^a   Emmer, Marcia ^c   Kooiman, Klazina ^c   De Jong, Nico ^c   Hall, Christopher S ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Microbubbles; Microcapsule; Ultrasound contrast agent; Ultrasound therapy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG DOSAGE; LEAKAGE (FLUID); ONCOLOGY; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

ACTIVATION THRESHOLDS; ANTI-CANCER DRUGS; DRUG RELEASES; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIND LEGS; IN-VITRO; LIPOPHILIC DRUGS; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCAPSULE; MICROCAPSULES; PACLITAXEL; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

DRUG THERAPY;

EID: 48149096705     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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