Effects of acoustic radiation force on the binding efficiency of BR55, a VEGFR2-specific ultrasound contrast agent

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
Peter J A FrinkingFrançois Tranquart

Abstract

This work describes an in vivo study analyzing the effect of acoustic radiation force (ARF) on the binding of BR55 VEGFR2-specific contrast-agent microbubbles in a model of prostatic adenocarcinoma in rat. A commercial ultrasound system was modified by implementing high duty-cycle 3.5-MHz center frequency ARF bursts in a scanning configuration. This enabled comparing the effects of ARF on binding in tumor and healthy tissue effectively in the same field of view. Bubble binding was established by measuring late-phase enhancement in amplitude modulation (AM) contrast-specific imaging mode (4 MHz, 150 kPa) 10 min after agent injection when the unbound bubbles were cleared from the circulation. Optimal experimental conditions, such as agent concentration (0.4 × 10(8)-1.6 × 10(8) bubbles/kg), acoustic pressure amplitude (26-51 kPa) and duty-cycle (20%-95%) of the ARF bursts, were evaluated in their ability to enhance binding in tumor without significantly increasing binding in healthy tissue. Using the optimal conditions (38 kPa peak-negative pressure, 95% duty cycle), ARF-assisted binding of BR55 improved significantly in tumor (by a factor of 7) at a lower agent dose compared with binding without ARF, and it had an insignificant e...Continue Reading

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