Microbubble dynamics visualized in the intact capillary circulation
SB Feinstein,
PM Shah,
RJ Bing,
S Meerbaum,
E Corday,
BL Chang,
G Santillan,
and
Y Fujibayashi
The potential for the use of contrast echocardiography to study myocardial perfusion has generated efforts to develop standardized echo contrast agents. The two methods used in this laboratory to generate microbubbles in solutions serving as contrast agents included the widely used hand-agitation method and the newer ultrasonic microcavitation (sonication) method. The latter has been demonstrated to generate smaller and more uniform microbubbles in an in vitro system. The present study was designed to observe, by direct microscopic examination of a cat mesentery preparation, the behavior and fate of the microbubbles in an in vivo system. The in vivo mesentery observations confirm the critical role of microbubble size in its unhindered passage through the capillary vasculature. The smaller and more uniform sonicated microbubbles passed rapidly through the microcirculation along with the red blood cells, whereas the larger microbubbles were observed to coalesce and interrupt the flow of blood and subsequently collapse or shrink.
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