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Area of Science:

  • Acoustic cavitation
  • Ultrasound therapy
  • Biomedical engineering

Background:

  • Histotripsy is an emerging non-invasive therapeutic ultrasound technique.
  • It utilizes high-amplitude ultrasound pulses to induce cavitation, mechanically disrupting tissue.
  • Understanding the precise mechanism of cavitation cloud formation is crucial for optimizing histotripsy treatments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the fundamental mechanism driving cavitation bubble cloud formation during histotripsy.
  • To elucidate the role of shockwave backscattering and acoustic pressure dynamics in cloud initiation and growth.
  • To validate a proposed hypothesis regarding the influence of positive and negative pressure phases on cavitation.

Main Methods:

  • High-speed photography was employed to visualize cavitation cloud dynamics in real-time.
  • Experiments were conducted using a transparent tissue phantom and a 1-MHz focused ultrasound transducer.
  • Histotripsy pulses of varying cycle durations (5-20 cycles) were applied.
  • The incident acoustic wave was modified to alter positive and negative pressure amplitudes, and subsequent cloud formation was observed.

Main Results:

  • Cavitation clouds were observed to initiate from single bubbles during the initial pulse cycles.
  • Cloud growth occurred along the acoustic axis, directed opposite to wave propagation.
  • A hypothesis was formulated: clouds form due to negative pressure generated by shockwave backscattering from initial bubbles.
  • Modifying incident waves to reduce positive pressure amplitude, while maintaining negative pressure, significantly suppressed cloud formation, supporting the hypothesis.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides strong evidence that cavitation cloud formation in histotripsy is driven by the negative pressure generated through shockwave backscattering from initial cavitation bubbles.
  • The observed elongation of bubble clouds towards the transducer is explained by the repeated interaction of incident wave cycles with backscattered waves.
  • Finite-amplitude wave propagation, which increases peak positive pressure relative to negative pressure, significantly enhances cloud formation, highlighting the importance of acoustic field characteristics in histotripsy.