Ultrasonic Technologies in Imaging and Drug Delivery
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 17125
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biosystem control; medical electronics; medical imaging; therapeutic ultrasound
Interests: ultrasound image processing; biomedical signal processing; biomedical engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of ultrasound technologies that allow non-invasively scrutinizing and interfering the body’s deep areas holds promise for the diagnosis, disease treatment, and even the study of probing intrinsic functional connection. Recently, several landmark breakthroughs of ultrasonic technology have been proposed and considered as a great potential for addressing human diseases. The evolution of high framerate and super-resolution ultrasound imaging allows mapping of the body’s interior vascular network and haemodynamics, which are related to diseases. Therapeutic ultrasound provides opportunities in permeating drugs, improving thrombolysis, and modulating neurons. In addition, with the recent great progress of developing novel ultrasound-responsible theranostic agents, the application of ultrasound can be further widened to achieve remotely controlled drug release under monitoring by single or multiple imaging modalities for disease treatment, gene delivery, and anaesthetization. Combining diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound with ultrasonic drug carriers can even provide more emerging routes and multidisciplinary methods in enabling real-time mage-guided therapy for deep living tissue, improving drug concentrations in diseased tissues.
This Special Issue will cover these exciting ultrasonic technologies in imaging and drug delivery, including novel ultrasound theranostic agents, ultrasound molecular imaging, ultrasound-assisted drugs or nucleic acid delivery, biomedical applications, etc. We expect this Special Issue to inspire more research innovations via revealing previous used ultrasonic technologies in the search for methods that effectively treat diseases.
Prof. Dr. Haoli Liu
Prof. Dr. Chih-Kuang Yeh
Dr. Ching-Hsiang Fan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ultrasound
- drug delivery
- ultrasound imaging
- ultrasound
- theranostic agent
- cavitation
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