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Closed-loop control of targeted ultrasound drug delivery across the blood-brain/tumor barriers in a rat glioma model.


ABSTRACT: Cavitation-facilitated microbubble-mediated focused ultrasound therapy is a promising method of drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for treating many neurological disorders. Unlike ultrasound thermal therapies, during which magnetic resonance thermometry can serve as a reliable treatment control modality, real-time control of modulated BBB disruption with undetectable vascular damage remains a challenge. Here a closed-loop cavitation controlling paradigm that sustains stable cavitation while suppressing inertial cavitation behavior was designed and validated using a dual-transducer system operating at the clinically relevant ultrasound frequency of 274.3 kHz. Tests in the normal brain and in the F98 glioma model in vivo demonstrated that this controller enables reliable and damage-free delivery of a predetermined amount of the chemotherapeutic drug (liposomal doxorubicin) into the brain. The maximum concentration level of delivered doxorubicin exceeded levels previously shown (using uncontrolled sonication) to induce tumor regression and improve survival in rat glioma. These results confirmed the ability of the controller to modulate the drug delivery dosage within a therapeutically effective range, while improving safety control. It can be readily implemented clinically and potentially applied to other cavitation-enhanced ultrasound therapies.

SUBMITTER: Sun T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5715774 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Closed-loop control of targeted ultrasound drug delivery across the blood-brain/tumor barriers in a rat glioma model.

Sun Tao T   Zhang Yongzhi Y   Power Chanikarn C   Alexander Phillip M PM   Sutton Jonathan T JT   Aryal Muna M   Vykhodtseva Natalia N   Miller Eric L EL   McDannold Nathan J NJ  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171113 48


Cavitation-facilitated microbubble-mediated focused ultrasound therapy is a promising method of drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for treating many neurological disorders. Unlike ultrasound thermal therapies, during which magnetic resonance thermometry can serve as a reliable treatment control modality, real-time control of modulated BBB disruption with undetectable vascular damage remains a challenge. Here a closed-loop cavitation controlling paradigm that sustains stable cavit  ...[more]

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