Clot Blasters
March 23, 2021 | Terry Sharrer
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technology for using nanodroplets and an ultrasound catheter to break up hard-to-reach blood clots. “The nanodroplets are made out of lipid spheres packed with low-boiling point liquid perfluorocarbons (PFCs). When the PFCs are released from the spheres, their tiny size allows them to get into the tiniest of crevices within a clot. Once there, a shower of ultrasound activates them to turn into expanding boiling microbubbles. Further ultrasound makes these microbubbles vibrate and break apart the clot mass.” MORE
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