Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extremely small bubble, usually only a few hundred micrometers in diameter, that can be uniformly suspended in a liquid such as blood.
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- noun A
microscale bubble , used inmedical diagnostics as acontrast agent forultrasound imaging.
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Examples
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And its not remarkable - geochemists have long known that rapid vertical gas transport of up to 100's of metres per day can occur. try googling geogas + microbubble.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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Three cases of blood clots occurred only in the microbubble treatment group, Kharlamov said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Wells NHS Trust, Kent, pioneered the microbubble technique, the results of which suggested that breast cancer patients could avoid repeat surgery.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Three cases of blood clots occurred only in the microbubble treatment group, Kharlamov said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Experts at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Kent, pioneered the microbubble technique, the results of which suggested that breast cancer patients could avoid repeat surgery.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010
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Ultrasound agents are based on gas microbubble technology and are considered to have low adverse effects as compared to iodine or gadolinium based contrast agents.
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He says that it should be possible to use microbubble pairs generated by ultrasound rather than lasers as a clinical drug-delivery system.
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The localized nature of the heating causes enormous temperature gradients to be set up in the fluid and these, in turn, set up surface tension gradients that give rise to complex flow patterns in the immediate vicinity of the microbubble.
Medgadget 2010
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High-speed photography showed that the microbubble pair could be made to collapse in such a way that the jet of blue dye created a hole between 0.2 and 2 micrometres across - allowing the jet of liquid to enter without instantly destroying the cell.
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Experts at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Kent, pioneered the microbubble technique, the results of which suggested that breast cancer patients could avoid repeat surgery.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010
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