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Medical diagnostic ultrasound-aided drug delivery system and method

  • US 6,475,148 B1
  • Filed: 10/25/2000
  • Issued: 11/05/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An ultrasonic method for delivering drugs with a medical diagnostic ultrasound system, the method comprising the acts of:

  • (a) identifying a region of interest within an image of a target;

    (b) generating transmit beams of acoustic energy within and outside the region of interest where the target comprises microspheres having a drug, the transmit beams within the region of interest adapted for destruction of the microspheres and the transmit beams outside the region of interest adapted for minimizing destruction of the microspheres; and

    (c) minimizing acoustic energy outside the region of interest.

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