Bubble and Ultrasound Deliver Drugs to the Brain

Jul-05-19 A novel combination of ultrasound and microbubbles bypasses the blood-brain barrier to deliver medications to the brain.

The blood-brain barrier is difficult to breach, which helps block entry to infections as well as therapeutic medications. To get past this protective barrier, the team from Columbia University developed a technique that combines transcranial, focused ultrasound and intravenously injected microbubbles to create a temporary opening in the barrier. This opening allows for the passage of therapeutic drugs into the brain, and the technique does not require intraoperative MRI imaging.

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