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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 84, Issue 4, Pages 631-633Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1643544
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High-speed optical experiments demonstrate that the behavior of a polymer-shelled microbubble contrast agent in response to an acoustic pulse is qualitatively and quantitatively different from that of a lipid-shelled agent. The lipid-shelled agent expands in response to a two-cycle pulse, and at pressures approaching 1 MPa, both the shell and its contents fragment. The polymer-shelled agent remains largely intact at pressures up to 1.5 MPa and exhibits a different destruction mechanism: the polymer shell does not oscillate significantly in response to ultrasound; instead, a gas bubble is extruded and ejected through a shell defect while the shell appears to remain largely intact. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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