Integrated Histotripsy and Bubble Coalescence Transducer for Rapid Tissue Ablation.
IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control
; 65(10): 1822-1831, 2018 10.
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ABSTRACT
Residual bubbles produced after collapse of a cavitation cloud provide cavitation nuclei for subsequent cavitation events, causing cavitation to occur repeatedly at the same discrete set of sites. This effect, referred to as cavitation memory, limits the efficiency of histotripsy soft tissue fractionation. Besides passively mitigating cavitation memory by using a low pulse repetition frequency (~1 Hz), an active strategy was developed by our group. In this strategy, low-amplitude ultrasound sequences were used to stimulate coalescence of residual bubbles. The goal of this work is to remove cavitation memory and achieve rapid, homogeneous lesion formation using a single phased array transducer. A 1-MHz integrated histotripsy and bubble coalescing (BC) transducer system with a specialized electronic driving system was built in house. High-amplitude ( MPa) histotripsy pulses and subsequent low-amplitude (~1-2 MPa) BC sequences were applied to a red blood cell tissue-mimicking phantom at a single focal site. Significant reduction of the cavitation memory effect and increase in the fractionation rate were observed by introducing BC sequence. Effects of BC pulsing parameters were further studied. The optimal BC parameters were then utilized to homogenize a mm2 region at high rate.
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Transdutores
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Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador
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Ultrassonografia
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Ablação por Ultrassom Focalizado de Alta Intensidade
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Animals
Idioma:
En
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IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA NUCLEAR
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article