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The backscatter from sonicated albumin microbubbles (Albunex) was analyzed using acoustic densitometry in anin vitro pulsatile heart model to evaluate the effects of pressure on the backscatter from Albunex, and the cardiac cyclic changes of intracardiac backscatter from sonicated albumin microbubbles in 16 healthy persons were analyzed. It was found that the Albunex microbubbles were compressed in systole and decompressed in diastole, causing corresponding changes of backscatter in cardiac cycle. Although the intensities of backscatter in diastole and systole were related to the concentration of microbubbles, the concentration of microbubbles had no effect on the difference of end-diastolic and end-systolic backscatter. The difference of the backscatter was highly correlated with end-systolic pressure (r=0.96,P = 0.001). In human studies, we also observed same intracardiac cyclic changes of backscatter from sonicated albumin microbubbles. Our study indicates that it is possible to evaluate the intracardiac pressure non-invasively by analyzing the intracardiac backscatter from the microbubbles with acoustic densitometry.
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Youbin, D., Chunlei, L. & Qing, C. Effect of pressure on intracardiac backscatter from microbubbles. Current Medical Science 21, 246–248 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02886444
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02886444