Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 7 , Pages 1093-1104 , July 2008

Effect of Focused Ultrasound Applied With an Ultrasound Contrast Agent on the Tight Junctional Integrity of the Brain Microvascular Endothelium

  • Nickolai Sheikov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Nathan McDannold

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Nathan McDannold, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Room 521, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
    • ,
  • Shipra Sharma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Kullervo Hynynen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and Discipline of Imaging Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Received 11 May 2007 ,Revised 12 December 2007 ,Accepted 19 December 2007.

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PII: S0301-5629(07)00659-X

doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.12.015

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 34, Issue 7 , Pages 1093-1104 , July 2008

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