Novel microbubble preparation technologies

Soft Matter

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2350-2359

  Stride, Eleanor ^a   Edirisinghe, Mohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG THERAPY; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLASTIC COATINGS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; CONTRAST AGENTS; CONVENTIONAL PROCESSING; DEGREE OF CONTROLS; FOCUSED ULTRASOUNDS; GAS MICROBUBBLES; GENE THERAPIES; HIGH SHEARS; HIGH YIELDS; INK JET PRINTINGS; LOW COSTS; MEMBRANE EMULSIFICATIONS; MICRO-FLUIDIC; MICROBUBBLE; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; POLYMER COATINGS; PREPARATION TECHNOLOGIES; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERIES; THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS; THROMBOLYSIS;

EMULSIFICATION;

EID: 56049114432     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b809517p     Document Type: Article

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