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SUBMITTER: Teraphongphom N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4818153 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Teraphongphom Nutte N Chhour Peter P Eisenbrey John R JR Naha Pratap C PC Witschey Walter R T WR Opasanont Borirak B Jablonowski Lauren L Cormode David P DP Wheatley Margaret A MA
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20151016 43
Ultrasound contrast agents are typically microbubbles (MB) with a gas core that is stabilized by a shell made of lipids, proteins, or polymers. The high impedance mismatch between the gas core and an aqueous environment produces strong contrast in ultrasound (US). Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) MB, previously developed in our laboratory, have been shown to be highly echogenic both in vitro and in vivo. Combining US with other imaging modalities such as fluorescence, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or ...[more]