• SAFETY EVALUATION OF MID-FREQUENCY SONO­THROMBOLYSIS: ANIMAL BRAIN EXPERIMENT

    J. Shimizu 1, J. Kubota 1, T. Fukuda 2, A. Sasaki 3, T. Azuma 3, K. Sasaki 4, K. Shimizu 5, T. Oishi 6, S. Umemura 7, H. Furuhata 1
    1 Medical Engineering Laboratory,
    2 Division of Neuropathology, The Jikei University School of Medicine – Tokyo, Japan
    3 Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan
    4 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology – Tokyo, Japan
    5 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science – Okayama, Japan
    6 Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University – Inuyama, Japan
    7 Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University – Sendai, Japan

    Objective: We are developing mid-frequency sonothrombolysis, however, hemorrhagic complication in TRUMBI trial is a fence at these frequency. We evaluated safety in primate with a developed 490 kHz continuous waveform (CW)-US probe and investigated 400 kHz burst waveform (BW)-US emission for rabbit.