BUBBLE DYNAMICS IN BOILING HISTOTRIPSY

Authors
Pahk, Ki JooGelat, PierreKim, HyungminSaffari, Nader
Issue Date
2018-12
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
Citation
ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, v.44, no.12, pp.2673 - 2696
Abstract
Boiling histotripsy is a non-invasive, cavitation-based ultrasonic technique which uses a number of millisecond pulses to mechanically fractionate tissue. Though a number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of boiling histotripsy for fractionation of solid tumours, treatment monitoring by cavitation measurement is not well studied because of the limited understanding of the dynamics of bubbles induced by boiling histotripsy. The main objectives of this work are to (a) extract qualitative and quantitative features of bubbles excited by shockwaves and (b) distinguish between the different types of cavitation activity for either a thermally or a mechanically induced lesion in the liver. A numerical bubble model based on the Gilmore equation accounting for heat and mass transfer (gas and water vapour) was developed to investigate the dynamics of a single bubble in tissue exposed to different High Intensity Focused Ultrasound fields as a function of temperature variation in the fluid. Furthermore, ex vivo liver experiments were performed with a passive cavitation detection system to obtain acoustic emissions. The numerical simulations showed that the asymmetry in a shockwave and water vapour transport are the key parameters which lead the bubble to undergo rectified growth at a boiling temperature of 100 degrees C. The onset of rectified radial bubble motion manifested itself as (a) an increase in the radiated pressure and (b) the sudden appearance of higher order multiple harmonics in the corresponding spectrogram. Examining the frequency spectra produced by the thermal ablation and the boiling histotripsy exposures, it was observed that higher order multiple harmonics as well as higher levels of broadband emissions occurred during the boiling histotripsy insonation. These unique features in the emitted acoustic signals were consistent with the experimental measurements. These features can, therefore, be used to monitor (a) the different types of acoustic cavitation activity for either a thermal ablation or a mechanical fractionation process and (b) the onset of the formation of a boiling bubble at the focus in the course of HIFU exposure. (E-mail: n.saffari@ucl.ac.uk) (C) 2018 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. All rights reserved.
Keywords
INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC PRESSURE; LESION FORMATION; IN-VITRO; CAVITATION; TISSUE; VAPOR; WATER; MECHANISMS; INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC PRESSURE; LESION FORMATION; IN-VITRO; CAVITATION; TISSUE; VAPOR; WATER; MECHANISMS; high intensity focused ultrasound; boiling histotripsy; cavitation monitoring
ISSN
0301-5629
URI
https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/120645
DOI
10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2018.07.025
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