Determination of microbubble cavitation threshold pressure as function of shell chemistry

Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 55-64

  Dicker, S ^a   Mleczko, M ^b   Schmitz, G ^b   Wrenn, S P ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cavitation threshold; Herring equation; Inertial cavitation; Microbubble

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS MEDIA; CAVITATION THRESHOLDS; DRUG DELIVERY APPLICATIONS; HERRING EQUATION; IN-SHELL; INERTIAL CAVITATION; INERTIAL CAVITATION THRESHOLD; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; OPERATING PRESSURE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS (PEG); TUNING PARAMETER; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST;

DRUG DELIVERY; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); VISCOSITY;

CAVITATION;

EID: 78651591756     PISSN: 17588960     EISSN: 17588979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1758897910Y.0000000001     Document Type: Article

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