LOCALIZED DELIVERY OF DIAGNOSTIC OR THERAPEUTIC AGENTS USING FOCUSED ULTRASOUND

    公开(公告)号:WO2022038083A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-24

    申请号:PCT/EP2021/072696

    申请日:2021-08-16

    申请人: ETH ZURICH

    摘要: In a method for enhancing localized delivery of a diagnostic or therapeutic agent using focused ultrasound (FUS), ultrasound-controllable drug carriers are administered into a blood vessel. Each drug carrier comprises an ultrasound-sensitive microbubble loaded with the diagnostic or therapeutic agent. The drug carriers are aggregated inside the vessel both along a radial direction and a longitudinal direction by application of an aggregation FUS sequence. Subsequently the diagnostic or therapeutic agent is released from the drug carriers by application of an uncaging FUS sequence. The aggregation and uncaging sequences are applied using FUS below a threshold power level such that harmful cavitation is avoided, as evidenced by the absence of broadband emissions and preferably non-integer harmonics from an emission spectrum of the drug carriers. Thereby damage to the vasculature by the FUS sequence is avoided. The method can in particular be employed to deliver drugs to the brain without opening the blood-brain barrier.

    SHELF-STABLE INDOCYANINE GREEN SOLUTIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:WO2022026628A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:PCT/US2021/043578

    申请日:2021-07-28

    申请人: CAO GROUP, INC

    发明人: JENSEN, Steven D.

    IPC分类号: A61K49/00 A61K49/22

    摘要: Shelf stable indocyanine green solutions are made by dissolving indocyanine green in an organic solvent with no water content. Such solutions may be self-stable for up to a year at room temperature when stored in air-tight containers. Solutions may then be used conventionally in imaging procedures in the medical and dental fields.