title: Shear forces from flow are responsible for a distinct statistical signature of adherent microbubbles in large vessels.
abstract: Real-time ultrasound-based targeted molecular imaging in large blood vessels holds promise for early detection and diagnosis of stroke risk by identifying early markers for atherosclerosis prior to plaque formation. Singular spectrum-based targeted molecular (SiSTM) imaging is a recently proposed method that uses changes in statistical dimensionality-quantified by a normalized singular spectrum area (NSSA)-to image receptor-ligand-bound adherent microbubbles. However, the precise physical mechanism responsible for the distinct statistical signature was previously unknown. In this study, in vitro flow phantom experiments were performed to elucidate the physical mechanism in large blood vessel environments. In the absence of flow, an increase in the NSSA of adherent microbubbles with respect to tissue was not observed with increased microbubble concentration or pulse length (p > .23; n  =  5) but was observed with increased flow rate (p < .01; n  =  10). When observing the dynamics of the adherent microbubble statistics, a good correlation was observed between the NSSA and the derivative of image intensity (R2 > .97). In addition, a monotonic relationship between the NSSA and decorrelation was demonstrated. These findings confirm the hypothesis that the statistical signature of adherent microbubbles is derived from frame-to-frame decorrelation, which is induced by flow shear forces.
authors: Department of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
authors: Shiying
authors: S
authors: Wang
authors: F William
authors: FW
authors: Mauldin
authors: Alexander L
authors: AL
authors: Klibanov
authors: John A
authors: JA
authors: Hossack
mesh_terms: D045423:Microbubbles; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012212:Rheology / Q000379:methods*; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*
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