Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 4–8, 2019; Boston, Massachusetts
Session G70: Poster Session I (2:00pm-5:00pm)
2:00 PM,
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
BCEC
Room: Exhibit Hall
Abstract: G70.00072 : A Novel Application of Focused Ultrasound for the Treatment of Port Wine Stain Birthmarks
Presenter:
Kristen Doucette
(Department of Chemistry and Physics, Simmons University)
Authors:
Kristen Doucette
(Department of Chemistry and Physics, Simmons University)
John O'Malley
(Department of Dermatology, Brigham & Women's Hospital)
Phillip Jason White
(Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital)
Focused ultrasound therapies are non-invasive alternatives to treating tissue at depth. We investigated a novel application of therapeutic ultrasound to treat PWS. We used a transducer operating at 1.47 and 4.42 MHz and FDA-approved microbubbles to induce cavitation as a non-thermal mechanism of damage to the PWS. An ultrasound phantom was created to mimic the vasculature of the PWS for determining the functional ultrasound parameters. We report on the ability of these parameters to selectively damage vasculature in phantoms and ex vivo animal tissues.
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