31), including pressure - driven continuous gas - phase flow through dry or water - saturated fractures and density - driven buoyancy of gas
microbubbles in aquifers and water - filled fractures (31).
Not exact matches
For example, superparamagnetic particles and chemotherapeutics drugs can be incorporated
in the polymeric shelled
microbubbles.
Companies kill deadly bacteria and strip out heavy metals
in water using new technologies that range from ultraviolet (UV) light to
microbubbles
Echography with
microbubbles uses the fact that the bubbles will vibrate
in the blood at the same frequency as the sound produced by the echoscanner, as well as at twice that frequency; the so - called second harmonic.
If this type of therapy proves safe
in humans, a syringe full of oxygen
microbubbles could help avert brain damage and death for the victims of cardiac arrest, asthma attacks, strokes, and injuries to the lungs, airway, or face.
Microbubbles can help temporarily open the blood - brain barrier without incision or radiation, but if these bubbles destabilize and collapse, they can damage the critical vasculature
in the brain.
In addition, the microbubbles and the ultrasound used in the experiments are very similar to those routinely used for diagnostics in human
In addition, the
microbubbles and the ultrasound used
in the experiments are very similar to those routinely used for diagnostics in human
in the experiments are very similar to those routinely used for diagnostics
in human
in humans.
The clinical trial differs from the pig trial
in that it is testing whether ultrasound /
microbubbles alone administered to heart attack patients both before and after balloon angioplasty and stenting results
in better patient outcomes compared with balloon angioplasty and stenting alone.
Porter points out that tPA was not included
in the clinical trial because a good result was seen with ultrasound /
microbubbles alone
in the pig study.
The clinical trial will help to determine if the early
microbubble intervention results
in overall better outcomes for patients.
Over all, the combination of ultrasound /
microbubbles and a low dose of tPA resulted
in the most significant preservation of healthy heart tissue and the smallest infarct size.
«The combination of
microbubbles chipping away outside and inside the clot is like poking holes
in the clot and turning it into Swiss cheese allowing blood to reach the heart muscle,» says Porter.
Magnets, which can draw and attract the
microbubbles, are already
in use
in diagnostic machines such the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
The careful choice of the pig model as well as use of readily available
microbubbles and ultrasound was instrumental
in studies moving to clinical trials.
NTU's
microbubbles were successfully tested
in mice and the study has been published by the Nature Publishing Group
in Asia Materials, the top journal for materials sciences
in the Asia - Pacific region.
Ultrasound and
microbubble - induced intra-and intercellular bioeffects
in primary endothelial cells.
Injecting breast cancer with oxygen - filled
microbubbles makes tumors three - times more sensitive to radiation therapy and improves survival
in animal models of the disease.
Ann Arbor - based biotech company, Akadeum Life Sciences, has demonstrated its groundbreaking
microbubble technology
in...
When there is right to left shunt the
microbubbles are seen
in left atrim, left ventricle or arterial circulation — usually the abdominal aorta.
We could brighten water
in reservoirs by injecting highly reflective «
microbubbles.»
In theory, this would involve using a fleet of sea vessels to churn up millions of tiny
microbubbles on the ocean surface.
(Brennen, 1995)
In gas - free water, the pressure due to interfacial curvature rapidly drives micron - sized bubbles into solution, but in air - saturated water (22 mg l - 1 at STP), but in the presence of film - forming impurities, either present naturally or intentionally added, microbubbles may last for tens to hundreds of second
In gas - free water, the pressure due to interfacial curvature rapidly drives micron - sized bubbles into solution, but
in air - saturated water (22 mg l - 1 at STP), but in the presence of film - forming impurities, either present naturally or intentionally added, microbubbles may last for tens to hundreds of second
in air - saturated water (22 mg l - 1 at STP), but
in the presence of film - forming impurities, either present naturally or intentionally added, microbubbles may last for tens to hundreds of second
in the presence of film - forming impurities, either present naturally or intentionally added,
microbubbles may last for tens to hundreds of seconds.