Enhancing Nucleic Acid Delivery with Ultrasound and …

 · The enhanced delivery of naked nucleic acids in combination with microbubbles and ultrasound (US) has been widely investigated in the last decades [1,2,3].As the observed bioeffects have been attributed to the cavitation of microbubbles, adding microbubbles can drastically increase the efficacy of US-assisted delivery of nucleic acids [].However, in most …

Microbubbles/Sea (Technology Briefing)

 · OVERVIEW. Microbubbles injected into water bodies or sea sprayed onto the surface of the ocean are theoretical solar geoengineering proposals which aim to reflect more sunlight back into space by altering the albedo (reflectivity) of water surfaces. The brighter a water surface is, the higher its albedo is, and the lower the absorption and ...

Lipid-based microbubbles and ultrasound for therapeutic …

 · Microbubbles with diagnostic ultrasound have had a long history of use in the medical field. In recent years, the therapeutic application of the combination of microbubbles and ultrasound, called sonoporation, has received increased attention as microbubble oscillation or collapse close to various barriers in the body was recognized to potentially open those …

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Microbubbles were originally developed in the 1990s to enhance ultrasound scans. They resonate in an ultrasound beam, contracting and expanding as pressure changes occur in the ultrasound wave. Microbubbles resonate particularly vigorously at the high frequencies used in ultrasound scans, meaning they reflec…news-medical

Microbubble - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Interestingly, microbubbles are one of the most popular ultrasonic contrasting agents. Generally, the size of gas bubbles can range from 1 to 10 μm with a shell that contains phospholipids, …

Microbubbles: A New Way to Separate Cells - Akadeum …

Microbubbles are miniature, gas-filled bubbles that offer a simple solution to a nearly infinite range of applications. While they have been used for a variety of different things, Akadeum Life …

Ultrasound Cavitation/Microbubble Detection and Medical …

 · Over the past decades, different techniques have been investigated for detecting microbubbles. The purpose of this work is to review the state-of-the-art of medical microbubble detection along with therapeutic, monitoring, and diagnostic applications. The presence of microbubbles in the human body can be induced either through cavitation or exogenous …

Mass transfer from freely rising microbubbles in aqueous …

 · Fig. 1 shows a schematic of the experimental setup. An acrylic cell with dimensions of 500 × 20 × 1 mm was constructed as a test section. The cell depth of 1 mm ensured that wall effects were negligible for microbubbles that were less than 100 μm in diameter because the diameter ratio, which is the ratio of the microbubble diameter, d B, to the depth of the cell, is …

Principle and applications of microbubble and

 · Microbubbles and nanobubbles. Microbubbles (MBs) and nanobubbles (NBs) are tiny bubbles with a respective diameter of 10–50 μm and <200 nm, and have been explored for various applications. The existence of NBs as stable entity has been debated for a long while due to some thermodynamic considerations.

Applications of micro–nano bubble technology …

 · 1.2 Time when the MNBs stay in the water is longer. Normally, the macrobubbles rapidly rise and burst at the water surface, whereas the MBs can exist for a long time under the water surface [].Turner [] first confirmed that the …

Microbubble contrast agents: targeted ultrasound imaging …

The use of microbubble contrast agents for general tissue delineation and perfusion enjoys steady interest in ultrasound imaging. Microbubbles as contrast materials require a small dosage and show excellent detection sensitivity. Targeting ligands on …

The promising shadow of microbubble over medical …

 · Microbubbles are typically 0.5–10 μm in size. Their size tends to make it easier for medication delivery mechanisms to navigate the body by allowing them to be swallowed more easily. The gas included in the microbubble is surrounded by a membrane that may consist of biocompatible biopolymers, polymers, surfactants, proteins, lipids, or a combination thereof. …

Effect of Shrinking Microbubble on Gas Hydrate Formation

Microbubble technology is now gathering much interest in industrial fields for its excellent gas-dissolving ability. This study was the first trial in using microbubbles in hydrate formation, and it has been demonstrated that a microbubble system is a promising method for hydrate formation for two reasons: (1) its excellent gas-dissolution ability and (2) its ability to make the conditions …

Microbubble ultrasound contrast agents: an update

Microbubble contrast agents for ultrasound (US) have gained increasing interest in recent years, and contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) is a rapidly evolving field with applications now extending far beyond the initial improvements achieved in Doppler US. This has been achieved as a result of the safe prof …

Microbubble - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Microbubbles are gas-liquid emulsions, consisting of a gaseous core (e.g., perfluorocarbon, sulfur hexafluoride, or nitrogen) surrounded by a shell of biocompatible properties (e.g., made of …

Microbubble ultrasound contrast agents: an update

Microbubble contrast agents for ultrasound (US) have gained increasing interest in recent years, and contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) is a rapidly evolving field with applications now extending …

Microbubbles and their application to ozonation in water …

 · Microbubbles have diameters of 1–100 µm, while conventional bubbles used in ozonation are between 2 and 6 mm. Microbubbles have many favorable characteristics that make them suitable for ozonation. In this review, the attributes of microbubbles for ozonation have been compared with those of conventional bubbles. The higher interfacial area ...

Targeted microbubbles: a novel application for the …

The microbubbles can be equipped with bisphosphonate tags to specifically target kidney stones. These bubbles will preferentially bind to the stone and not surrounding tissue, reducing …

Microbubble Agents: New Directions - ScienceDirect

 · All the contrast agents currently available clinically consist of suspensions of gas microbubbles, having diameters in the range 1–10 µm and vial concentrations of approximately 10 8 to 10 9 microbubbles/mL.They are typically administered by intravenous injection of 1–2 mL, giving an average blood concentration of ∼10 5 to 10 6 microbubbles/mL, which is sufficient to …

Microbubbles: pathophysiology and clinical implications

The microbubble obstructs blood flow in the capillary, thus causing tissue ischemia, followed by inflammatory response and complement activation. Aggregation of platelets and clot formation occurs as well, leading to further obstruction of microcirculation and tissue damage. In this review, we present evidence of the biological and clinical ...

Hydroxyl Radical Generation and Contaminant Removal …

 · The present study addresses the mechanism of hydroxyl radical (·OH) generation by the collapse of microbubbles in water solution. The influence of gas supply and flow rate, solution pH, and ionic strength on the aeration efficiency, free radical generation, and contaminant removal (take methylene blue as an example) are elucidated. The results showed that the degradation …

ζ Potential of Microbubbles in Aqueous Solutions: …

 · Microbubbles are very fine bubbles and appropriate for the investigation of the gas−water interface electrical charge, because of their long stagnation, due to slow buoyancy, in the electrophoresis cell observation area. This study investigated the ζ potential of microbubbles in aqueous solutions and revealed that the bubbles were negatively charged under a wide …

Microbubbles: A New Way to Separate Cells - Akadeum …

Microbubbles are miniature, gas-filled bubbles that offer a simple solution to a nearly infinite range of applications. While they have been used for a variety of different things, Akadeum Life Sciences have found a way to harness their natural properties for cell separation technology. Microbubble-based cell sorting allows smaller laboratories ...

Full article: Microbubble drug conjugate and focused …

 · The microbubbles were then decanted to remove large unwanted microbubbles, and centrifuged for 8 min at 55 g. The resulting supernatant was discarded to remove free lipids and unbound antibody linker, and the activated microbubbles were resuspended in a total volume of 0.9 mL of sterile PBS.

Functionalized polymer microbubbles as new molecular

Functionalized polymer microbubbles as new molecular ultrasound contrast agent to target P-selectin in thrombus Biomaterials. 2019 Feb;194:139-150. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.12.023. Epub 2018 Dec 23. Authors Bo Li 1 ...

On-chip generation of microbubbles in …

 · Microbubble size distributions. The top view of the microfluidic flow focusing junction, which was used for the microbubble generation, is shown in Fig. 1(a).A schematic of the experimental set up ...

Micro bubble Shower head Purebble | Purebble - ピュアブル

 · Microbubbles technology was invented in Japan in 1990's ahead of every country in the world. It has drawn attention and has become popular for its various effects in many fields such as purification of water and soil, fishery and agricultural, including the medical purposes, etc. By further research and studies will be able to proceed widely ...

(PDF) Microbubble Generation - ResearchGate

 · Abstract and Figures. In general, there are three ways of generating microbubbles. The most common class uses compression of the air stream to dissolve air into liquid, which is subsequently ...

Performance benchmarking of microbubble-localization …

 · The performance of microbubble-localization algorithms for use in ultrasound localization microscopy can now be easily benchmarked via openly available algorithms and datasets of simulated ...

Needle size and injection rate impact microbubble …

Abstract. The most common type of ultrasound contrast agents are encapsulated microbubbles, typically 1 to 5 microns in diameter. These microbubbles are injected into the bloodstream to provide image enhancement during an ultrasound examination. Because of their compressibility, these microbubbles are inherently sensitive to changes in pressure.