Effect of molecular weight, crystallinity, and hydrophobicity on the acoustic activation of polymer-shelled ultrasound contrast agents

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1025-1031

  Chlon, Ceciel ^a   Guédon, Constant ^a   Verhaagen, Bram ^a   Shi, William T ^a   Hall, Christopher S ^a   Lub, Johan ^a   Böhmer, Marcel R ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS; CRYSTALLINITY; END GROUPS; HOLLOW CAPSULES; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCAPSULES; NON-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS; POLYLACTIDES; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; DRUG DELIVERY; EMULSIFICATION; ENCAPSULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

POLYMERS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CYCLODECANE; POLYLACTIDE; POLYMER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EMULSION; FREEZE DRYING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROCAPSULE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POROSITY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; CAPSULES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYCLODECANES; HYDROPHOBICITY; LACTIC ACID; MICROBUBBLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYESTERS; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 66149092710     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm801243u     Document Type: Article

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