I had been interviewed for a BBC documentary on my work to
use microbubbles to improve cancer treatment, and that's when I got a call from my collaborator Ray Averre of Avrox Technologies to ask if it would be possible to make a sports drink using tiny bubbles of oxygen.
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However, more recent research modelling the impacts of
using microbubbles to address global warming found that the technique would not affect ocean primary productivity, a measure of the activity of primary producers.
Not exact matches
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.
McDannold and his colleagues have been working for years on
using focused ultrasound and
microbubbles to disrupt the blood - brain barrier and deliver drugs to the brain.
Serving as the acoustic indicator of drug delivery dosage, the
microbubble emission signal y (t) is
used to find the expected controller output u (f) which is fed back to help control ultrasound transducer transmission.
In addition, the
microbubbles and the ultrasound
used in the experiments are very similar to those routinely
used for diagnostics in humans.
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.
«
Using the theory of
microbubbles and how their surface vibrates under ultrasound, we were able to come up with our solution that addresses these three challenges.»
Ultrasound is then
used to vibrate the
microbubbles, providing the energy to direct the drug particles into a targeted area.
Using a pre-clinical model, the researchers delivered the microbubble contrast agent via intravenous injection and tracked it using ultras
Using a pre-clinical model, the researchers delivered the
microbubble contrast agent via intravenous injection and tracked it
using ultras
using ultrasound.
Increased local delivery of antagomir therapeutics to the rodent myocardium
using ultrasound and
microbubbles.
Danielle Benoit (right), associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Lisa A. DeLouise, associate professor of dermatology,
use «
microbubbles» to regenerate salivary gland cells.
There are two ultrasound techniques that can help identify vulnerable plaques, but both depend on the
use of contrast agents called «
microbubbles.»
Thereafter, Fido is pampered with a warm, soothing massage
using an antioxidant - rich mud and a CO2
microbubble bath that deep - cleanses skin to remove dead skin cells, excess sebum and bacteria.
A strategy based on recent research for producing
microbubbles appears to be the best option for large - scale
use.»
In theory, this would involve
using a fleet of sea vessels to churn up millions of tiny
microbubbles on the ocean surface.