Acoustical Properties of Individual Liposome-Loaded Microbubbles

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2174-2185

  Luan, Ying ^a   Faez, Telli ^a   Gelderblom, Erik ^b   Skachkov, Ilya ^a   Geers, Bart ^c   Lentacker, Ine ^c   van der Steen, Ton ^a   Versluis, Michel ^b   de Jong, Nico ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Liposome loaded microbubbles; Shell characterization; Ultrasound contrast agents

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES; BUBBLE VIBRATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGING CAMERA; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; SHELL ELASTICITY; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

DRUG DELIVERY; LIPOSOMES; LOADING; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

LIPOSOME;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; LIPOSOMAL DELIVERY; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

ACOUSTICS; DRUG CARRIERS; LIPOSOMES; MICROBUBBLES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

EID: 84870279172     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.07.023     Document Type: Article

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