Probability of Cavitation in a Custom Iron-Based Coupling Medium for Transcranial Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Procedures

A coupling bath of circulating, chilled, degassed water is essential to safe and precise acoustic transmittance during transcranial magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (tMRgFUS) procedures, but the circulating water impairs the critical real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An iron-based coupling medium (IBCM) using iron oxide nanoparticles previously developed by our group increased the relaxivity of the coupling bath such that it appears to be invisible on MRI compared with degassed water.

https://www.umbjournal.org/article/S0301-5629(23)00276-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Source: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - September 18, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Connor Edsall, Austin Fergusson, Richey M. Davis, Craig H. Meyer, Steven P. Allen, Eli Vlaisavljevich Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research