Concept information
Preferred term
Microbubbles
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Aphron, Colloidal Gas
- Aphrons, Colloidal Gas
- Colloidal Gas Aphron
- Colloidal Gas Aphrons
- Gas Aphron, Colloidal
- Gas Aphrons, Colloidal
Note
- coordinate with CONTRAST MEDIA, specific diagnostic technique or therapeutic technique if pertinent
Scope note
- 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.
History note
- 2004
In other languages
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Finnish
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mikrokupla
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D045423
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