Magnetic resonance-guided motorized transcranial ultrasound system for blood-brain barrier permeabilization along arbitrary trajectories in rodents - CEA - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound Année : 2015

Magnetic resonance-guided motorized transcranial ultrasound system for blood-brain barrier permeabilization along arbitrary trajectories in rodents

Résumé

Background: Focused ultrasound combined with microbubble injection is capable of locally and transiently enhancing the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance enables to plan, monitor, and characterize the BBB disruption. Being able to precisely and remotely control the permeabilization location is of great interest to perform reproducible drug delivery protocols. Methods: In this study, we developed an MR-guided motorized focused ultrasound (FUS) system allowing the transducer displacement within preclinical MRI scanners, coupled with real-time transfer and reconstruction of MRI images, to help ultrasound guidance. Capabilities of this new device to deliver large molecules to the brain on either single locations or along arbitrary trajectories were characterized in vivo on healthy rats and mice using 1.5 MHz ultrasound sonications combined with microbubble injection. The efficacy of BBB permeabilization was assessed by injecting a gadolinium-based MR contrast agent that does not cross the intact BBB. Results: The compact motorized FUS system developed in this work fits into the 9-cm inner diameter of the gradient insert installed on our 7-T preclinical MRI scanners. MR images acquired after contrast agent injection confirmed that this device can be used to enhance BBB permeability along remotely controlled spatial trajectories of the FUS beam in both rats and mice. The two-axis motor stage enables reaching any region of interest in the rodent brain. The positioning error when targeting the same anatomical location on different animals was estimated to be smaller than 0.5 mm. Finally, this device was demonstrated to be useful for testing BBB opening at various acoustic pressures (0.2, 0.4, 0.7, and 0.9 MPa) in the same animal and during one single ultrasound session.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
magnin2015.pdf (3.07 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte
Loading...

Dates et versions

cea-02043280 , version 1 (20-02-2019)

Identifiants

Citer

Remi Magnin, Fabien Rabusseau, Frédéric Salabartan, Sébastien Mériaux, Jean-François Aubry, et al.. Magnetic resonance-guided motorized transcranial ultrasound system for blood-brain barrier permeabilization along arbitrary trajectories in rodents. Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound, 2015, 3, pp.22. ⟨10.1186/s40349-015-0044-5⟩. ⟨cea-02043280⟩
128 Consultations
139 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More