Inhibition of glioma growth by microbubble activation in a subcutaneous model using low duty cycle ultrasound without significant heating: Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1654-1661

  Burke, Caitlin W ^a   Klibanov, Alexander L ^a,b   Sheehan, Jason P ^b   Price, Richard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced perfusion; Glioma; Microbubble; Microvascular ablation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GLIOMA; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBUBBLE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GLIOMA; MICE; MICROBUBBLES; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 79957993754     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.11.JNS101201     Document Type: Article

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