Beneficial Bubbles: Ultrasound-Mediated Drug Delivery

Friday, January 31, 2014 12:00 p.m. ETC 2.136 Professor Christy K. Holland Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Program University of Cincinnati http://www.ultrasound.uc.edu/people.html Ultrasound is under development as a potent promoter of beneficial bioeffects for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.  These effects can be mediated by mechanical oscillations of circulating microbubbles, referred to as…

Bubble Pulsation and Translation Near a Soft Tissue Interface

Friday, January 31, 2014 4:00 p.m. ETC 4.150 Daniel R. Tengelsen Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin https://www.arlut.utexas.edu A Lagrangian formalism used previously to calculate the pulsation of a spherical bubble immersed in liquid and adjacent to a viscoelastic layer is extended here to include bubble translation. Previous models and experiments…