Microbubbles

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Small encapsulated gas bubbles (diameters of micrometers) that can be used as CONTRAST MEDIA, and in other diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Upon exposure to sufficiently intense ultrasound, microbubbles will cavitate, rupture, disappear, release gas content. Such characteristics of the microbubbles can be used to enhance diagnostic tests, dissolve blood clots, and deliver drugs or genes for therapy.

Descriptor ID	D045423
MeSH Number(s)	E07.553
Concept/Terms	Microbubbles Microbubbles Microbubble Colloidal Gas Aphrons Colloidal Gas Aphrons Aphron, Colloidal Gas Aphrons, Colloidal Gas Colloidal Gas Aphron Gas Aphron, Colloidal Gas Aphrons, Colloidal

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Equipment and Supplies [E07]
Microbubbles [E07.553]

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Bar chart showing 79 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2004	1	1	2
2005	3	3	6
2006	3	3	6
2008	1	2	3
2009	0	3	3
2010	2	2	4
2011	4	2	6
2012	3	2	5
2014	0	1	1
2015	1	2	3
2016	2	2	4
2017	3	2	5
2018	1	2	3
2019	3	1	4
2020	2	3	5
2021	7	0	7
2022	3	0	3
2023	2	3	5
2024	4	0	4

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Azami RH, Yapar M, Halder S, Forsberg F, Eisenbrey JR, Sarkar K. Effects of Different Gas Cores on the Ambient Pressure Sensitivity of the Subharmonic Response of SonoVue. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2025 02; 51(2):373-380.

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Falatah HA, Lacerda Q, Wessner CE, Lo S, Wheatley MA, Liu JB, Eisenbrey JR. Influence of Phase Change Droplet Activation and Microbubble Cavitation on the Microenvironment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2024 09; 50(9):1387-1394.

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Oeffinger BE, Stanczak M, Lepore AC, Eisenbrey JR, Wheatley MA. Determining Ultrasound Parameters for Bursting Polymer Microbubbles for Future Use in Spinal Cord Injury. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2024 06; 50(6):888-897.

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Esposito C, Machado P, McDonald ME, Savage MP, Fischman D, Mehrotra P, Cohen IS, Ruggiero N, Walinsky P, Vishnevsky A, Dickie K, Davis M, Forsberg F, Dave JK. Evaluation of Intracardiac Pressures Using Subharmonic-aided Pressure Estimation with Sonazoid Microbubbles. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2024 02; 6(1):e230153.

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Forsberg F. Subharmonic-aided pressure estimation (SHAPE): on the cusp of clinical utility? Eur Radiol. 2024 Feb; 34(2):755-757.

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Papadopoulou V, Stride EP, Borden MA, Eisenbrey JR, Dayton PA. Radiotherapy Sensitization With Ultrasound-Stimulated Intravenously Injected Oxygen Microbubbles Can Have Contrary Effects Depending on the Study Model. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2023 09; 49(9):2203-2204.

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Azami RH, Forsberg F, Eisenbrey JR, Sarkar K. Ambient Pressure Sensitivity of the Subharmonic Response of Coated Microbubbles: Effects of Acoustic Excitation Parameters. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2023 07; 49(7):1550-1560.

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Zhao N, Curry D, Evans RE, Isguven S, Freeman T, Eisenbrey JR, Forsberg F, Gilbertie JM, Boorman S, Hilliard R, Dastgheyb SS, Machado P, Stanczak M, Harwood M, Chen AF, Parvizi J, Shapiro IM, Hickok NJ, Schaer TP. Microbubble cavitation restores Staphylococcus aureus antibiotic susceptibility in vitro and in a septic arthritis model. Commun Biol. 2023 04 17; 6(1):425.

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Fetzer DT, Vijay K, Caserta MP, Patterson-Lachowicz A, Dahiya N, Rodgers SK. Artifacts and Technical Considerations at Contrast-enhanced US. Radiographics. 2023 02; 43(2):e220093.

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Esposito C, Machado P, McDonald ME, Savage MP, Fischman D, Mehrotra P, Cohen IS, Ruggiero N, Walinsky P, Vishnevsky A, Dickie K, Davis M, Forsberg F, Dave JK. Noninvasive Evaluation of Cardiac?Chamber Pressures Using Subharmonic-Aided Pressure Estimation?With Definity Microbubbles. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 02; 16(2):224-235.

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