Magnetic Resonance Methods for Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening

Since its discovery in 2001, the interest in the low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption to deliver genes and drugs to brain tissue has increased steadily. Increasingly sophisticated sonication protocols and dedicated hardware are being developed to effic...

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Main Authors: Allegra Conti, Hermes A. S. Kamimura, Anthony Novell, Andrea Duggento, Nicola Toschi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2020.547674/full