Slingerende belletjes, gerichte medicijnbezorging en microïnjectienaalden
Résumé
Ultrasound contrast agents consist of microscopically small encapsulated bubbles that oscillate upon insonification. To enhance diagnostic ultrasound imaging techniques and to explore therapeutic applications, these medical bubbles have been studied with the aid of high-speed photography. We filmed medical bubbles at higher frame rates than the ultrasonic frequency transmitted. Microbubbles have-among others-been observed to fragment and jet during one single ultrasonic cycle. Gas was released from encapsulated microbubbles. It is concluded that bubbles might act as a vehicle to carry a drug in gas phase to a region of interest, where it has to be released by ultrasound whose amplitudes are still in the diagnostic range.
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