Multivariable Dependence of Acoustic Contrast of Fluorocarbon and Xenon Microbubbles under Flow.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
Rajarshi ChattarajChandra M Sehgal

Abstract

Microbubbles (MBs) are 1 to 10 µm gas particles stabilized by an amphiphilic shell capable of responding to biomedical ultrasound with strong acoustic signals, allowing them to be commonly used in ultrasound imaging and therapy. The composition of both the shell and the core determines their stability and acoustic properties. While there has been extensive characterization of the dissolution, oscillation, cavitation, collapse and therefore, ultrasound contrast of MBs under static conditions, few reports have examined such behavior under hydrodynamic flow. In this study, we evaluate the interplay of ultrasound parameters (five different mechanical indices [MIs]), MB shell parameter (shell stiffness), type of gas (perfluorocarbon for diagnostic imaging and xenon as a therapeutic gas), and a flow parameter (flow rate) on the ultrasound signal of phospholipid-stabilized MBs flowing through a latex tube embedded in a tissue-mimicking phantom. We find that the contrast gradient (CG), a metric of the rate of decay of contrast along the length of the tube, and the contrast peak (CP), the location where the maximum contrast is reached, depend on the conditions of flow, imaging, and MB material. For instance, while the contrast near the ...Continue Reading

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