Encapsulated microbubbles and echogenic liposomes for contrast ultrasound imaging and targeted drug delivery

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 413-435

  Paul, Shirshendu ^a   Nahire, Rahul ^b   Mallik, Sanku ^b   Sarkar, Kausik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Encapsulated microbubbles; Liposomes; Ultrasound contrast agents

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DRUG DELIVERY; LIPOSOMES; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST ULTRASOUND; DRUG RELEASE PROPERTIES; ECHOGENIC LIPOSOMES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; MICROBUBBLES; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES;

TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 84898599400     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-013-0962-4     Document Type: Review

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