title: [Perfluoropentane droplets enhanced HIFU therapeutic effect].
abstract: A small HIFU system was used to investigate the phase-shift droplet vaporization in vivo and its effect on thermal absorption in tissue-mimicking phantoms. The experiments demonstrated that droplets could be vaporized to bubbles in vivo by the small HIFU system and the volume of bubbles could increase by tens of times. With appropriate droplets concentration, lesion volume produced by HIFU could be increased significantly under the same HIFU parameter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030.
authors.forename: Meili
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Aili
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: Jingfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fabiilli
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fowlkes
mesh_terms: D005466:Fluorocarbons; D007089:Image Enhancement; D014464:Ultrasonic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D010420:Pentanes
chemical_list: D005466:Fluorocarbons; C008806:perfluoropentane; D010420:Pentanes