Microbubbles, currently employed in diagnostic ultrasound as a contrast agent, have a potential new application as vehicles for targeted drug delivery, which could revolutionise medicine by eliminating side-effects. A new device is developed which outperforms all existing devices in terms of minimum microbubble size:channel diameter ratio. A numerical model is established to describe the flow behaviour and it is determined that the flow regime and resulting microbubble size are dependent on the ratio of inner- to outer Weber number.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:692992 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Fiabane, Joe |
| Contributors | Pancholi, Ketan ; Prentice, Paul ; Steel, Iain ; Robertsone, Peter K. J. |
| Publisher | Robert Gordon University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1579 |
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