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Understanding the Form of the Input pressure of Focused Ultrasound in the Rayleigh-Plesset Equation to Improve Drug Delivery Efficiency

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Publication date24/04/2024
Host publicationComputer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering II: Selected Papers from the 18th International Symposium CMBBE 2023, May 3-5, 2023, Paris, France
EditorsWafa Skalli, Sébastien Laporte, Aurélie Benoit
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages280-288
Number of pages9
ISBN (electronic)9783031553158
ISBN (print)9783031553141
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics
Volume39
ISSN (Print)2212-9391
ISSN (electronic)2212-9413

Abstract

To improve the drug delivery efficiency in the brain, the combination of the focused ultrasound (FUS) with microbubbles (MBs) shows a great potential to increase the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The Rayleigh-Plesset equation is widely used to describe the dynamics of the MB, however, it is not clear what the most promising form of the FUS should be. In this manuscript, we investigate the choice of the input pressure of the FUS, both from analytical and numerical perspective. Furthermore, sensitivity tests are conducted to investigate the relations between the oscillation of the MB and the parameters. We conclude that the average of the FUS should lie at zero, since the MB must expand compared to its initial radius to release the drug molecules.