Deans' stroke musings: Detection and control of cavitation during blood–brain barrier opening: Applications and clinical considerations

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Detection and control of cavitation during blood–brain barrier opening: Applications and clinical considerations

How is your doctor going to use this knowledge of how to cross the blood brain barrier to deliver therapeutic interventions?
http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/136/4/10.1121/1.4900320
Applications and clinical considerations

Meaghan A. O'Reilly¹, Ryan M. Jones¹, Alison Burgess¹, Cassandra Tyson¹ and Kullervo Hynynen¹

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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 136, 2300 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4900320

Microbubble-mediated opening of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) using ultrasound is a targeted technique that provides a transient time window during which circulating therapeutics that are normally restricted to the vasculature can pass into the brain. This effect has been associated with increases in cavitation activity of the circulating microbubbles, and our group has previously described a method to actively control treatments in pre-clinical rodent models based on acoustic emissions recorded by a single transducer. Recently, we have developed a clinical-scale receiver array capable of detecting bubble activity through ex vivo human skullcaps starting at pressure levels below the threshold for BBB opening. The use of this array to spatially map cavitation activity in the brain during ultrasound therapy will be discussed, including considerations for compensating for the distorting effects of the skull bone. Additionally, results from pre-clinical investigations examining safety and therapeutic potential will be presented, and receiver design considerations for both pre-clinical and clinical scale systems will be discussed.