Tag: Chemotherapy

  • Implanted ultrasound allows powerful chemotherapy drugs to cross the blood brain barrier

    Implanted ultrasound allows powerful chemotherapy drugs to cross the blood brain barrier

    Adam Sonaband and Northwestern colleages used a skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate critical regions of the human brain, to deliver intravenous chemotherapy to glioblastoma patients. This is the first study to successfully quantify the effect of ultrasound-based blood-brain barrier opening on the concentrations of chemotherapy in the human brain.…