Contrast Ultrasound Imaging and Local Drug Delivery
Monday, March 8, 2004 3:00 p.m. Professor Katherine Ferrara Department of Biomedical Engineering University of California, Davis http://www.bme.ucdavis.edu Ultrasound contrast agents are small microbubbles with a thin shell and a resonance frequency in the range of clinical ultrasound instruments (1-5 MHz). We have developed a model for their oscillation in response to ultrasound pulses and…