ultrasound contrast agent detection
Contrast enhanced transesophageal echocardiography in patients with atrial fibrillation referred to electrical cardioversion improves atrial thrombus detection and may reduce associated thromboembolic events
... Transpulmonary contrast agents improve endocardial border delineation of left sided cardiac ...transpulmonary ultrasound contrast agent for the visualization of the left atrium (LA) and left ...
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Molecular imaging modalities using nanoprobes for cancer diagnosis
... for detection of the tumor is to apply specific antibody conjugated MB targeting ...US contrast agent, targeted Y1 receptor overexpressed breast tumor with minimal toxicity in early stage (Figure ...
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Immunological evaluation of the new stable ultrasound contrast agent LK565: a phase one clinical trial
... Intracellular TNF-α production in monocytes and macro- phages was analyzed before (t = 0) and after 2 h, 6 h, and 24 h. For detection, an anti-human TNF-α Pycoerythrin (PE) monoclonal antibody (mAb) was applied ...
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Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of the Breast Cancer Neovasculature using Engineered Fibronectin Scaffold Ligands: A Novel Class of Targeted Contrast Ultrasound Agent
... cancer detection where repetitive imaging exams are warranted, such as in a screening setting of women with dense breast tissue where mammography has limited accuracy in detecting breast cancer [47-51], USMI is ...
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Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging for the Detection of Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening
... focused ultrasound (FUS) in the presence of microbubbles ...and contrast agents have been used to monitor this ...direct ultrasound imaging of BBB opening with MBs as contrast agent is ...
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Doppler ultrasound imaging techniques for assessment of synovial inflammation
... sensitive detection of vascular abnormalities at the synovial tissue level in patients with chronic inflammatory ...the ultrasound machine. The main applications of Doppler ultrasound in the ...
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Endocavitary contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS): a novel problem solving technique
... negative contrast agent within the bowel to examine the lumen for evidence of filling defects or complications of inflammatory bowel dis- ease, whilst simultaneous intravenous UCA can allow assess- ment of ...
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Targeted delivery of reduced graphene oxide nanosheets using multifunctional ultrasound nanobubbles for visualization and enhanced photothermal therapy
... The ultrasound-targeted nanobubble destruction (UTND) technology make use of the physical energy of ultrasound exposure for the improvement of rGO ...
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State-of-the-art cross-sectional liver imaging: beyond lesion detection and characterization
... hepatic contrast agent on magnetic resonance imaging, in addition to improving detection and characterization of focal lesions, provides functional global and segmental information about the liver ...
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Fe3O4@Ag Nanoprobe for Detection of Ovarian Cancer Cell Line Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
... scanning electron microscope (SEM) (Hitachi S-4800 II, Japan). The IR spectra were taken using Nicolet Magna 550 Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) (USA) by applying spectroscopic-grade KBr. The size and zeta ...
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Effects of ultrasound and ultrasound contrast agent on vascular tissue
... Tumors are dependent upon the formation of neo- vessels for continued growth. Noninvasive, in vivo, imaging of vasculature is extremely important for iden- tifying tumors. Most importantly, this permits a means of ...
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Detection of vascularity in wrist tenosynovitis: power doppler ultrasound compared with contrast enhanced grey scale ultrasound
... MRI contrast agents diffuse into the extravascular compartment, it will not represent the true vascular compartment in hypervascularized synovium ...the detection of vascularity in comparison to ...
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Early detection of osteoarthritis in rabbits using MRI with a double contrast agent
... the agent injection were significantly greater than those before the ...this contrast agent could provide a strong contrast between the articular cartilage and joint ...
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Visualizing arthritic inflammation and therapeutic response by fluorine-19 magnetic resonance imaging (19F MRI)
... The detection of the 19 F signal in diseased animals in this and other studies [28-34] and the lack of 19 F signal in naïve animals indicates the specificity of this imaging ...trast agent which will ...
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Biodegradable double-targeted PTX-mPEG-PLGA nanoparticles for ultrasound contrast enhanced imaging and antitumor therapy in vitro
... Conventional UCAs such as lipid-shelled SonoVue which was filled with sulfur hexafluoride gas have been widely used in clinic work. These types of UCAs have the function of excellent contrast enhanced imaging. ...
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Advances in the field of nanooncology
... by ultrasound results in effective drug targeting, but this technique requires prior tumor ima- ...used ultrasound to image tumors while also releasing the drug from nanobubbles into the tumor implants in ...
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Near infrared planar tumor imaging and quantification using nanosized Alexa 750-labeled phospholipid micelles
... text, polymeric micelles represent an established colloidal nanocarrier system that has great advantages for the delivery of various drugs and vaccines. Micelles self-assemble from various amphiphilic molecules upon ...
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A Novel Contrast Agent Based on Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cholesterol Detection as Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker
... The BBB represents one of the most exclusive bio- logical barriers encountered in the treatment and diag- nosis of neurological diseases, restricting the access of most diagnostic and therapeutic agents to the brain via ...
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Detection and characterization of liver lesions using gadoxetic acid as a tissue-specific contrast agent
... and detection of focal and diffuse liver ...MR contrast agent, was clinically approved and introduced in many ...improves detection of lesions devoid of normal hepatocytes, such as ...
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Developing a contrast agent for the in vivo detection of apoptosis
... our contrast agent was not retained. This indicates that our contrast agent does not label necrotic cells and demonstrates the specificity of or agent for the apoptotic mode of cell ...
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