Influence of exposure time and pressure amplitude on blood-brain-barrier opening using transcranial ultrasound exposures

ACS Chemical Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Chopra, Rajiv ^a,b   Vykhodtseva, Natalia ^c   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Focused ultrasound; Microbubbles; MRI; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXPOSURE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROBUBBLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS;

EID: 77953303635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cn9000445     Document Type: Article

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