温度与电磁参数协同影响胰岛素分子构象与功能的光谱学方法研究

近年来,脉冲电磁辐射和弱电磁辐射的生物效应已引起人们的关注.开展了众多的病理学调查和实验研究.但是研究结果并不一致,学术界存在众多争议.由于脉冲电磁辐射和弱电磁辐射不能引起被辐照生物样品产生明显的温升效应(温升小于0.1℃),不能用电磁辐射的热效应机理来解释这类生物效应.因此人们往往称之为"非热效应".文章应用荧光光谱和拉曼光谱方法研究脉冲电场对胰岛素分子构象变化影响的结果表明:(1)尽管这类电磁辐射不会引起被辐照生物样品的温度产生明显变化(0.1℃),但是辐照时的环境温度变化则能改变辐照实验的结果.(2)环境温度能对胰岛素分子结构中的链间二硫键,C-C键的振动等在脉冲电场作用下的变化产生明显的影响,从而对脉冲电场引发的胰岛素的构象变化产生影响.这表明对于"非热效应",表征热的量度的温度,仍是脉冲和弱电磁场辐照生物效应研究中值得关注的极重要参数.     

辐射加热Al等离子体的吸收谱实验

报道了辐射加热Al样品的K壳层辐射吸收谱实验. 在神光Ⅱ激光装置上，将8路主激光注入锥柱型金腔产生高温辐射源，利用该辐射源加热腔内的Al薄膜样品，产生温度达到几十电子伏的热稠密等离子体. 相对主激光延迟一定时间后，利用第9路激光短脉冲聚焦打靶加热金盘，产生短脉冲X光点光源. 通过测量075—085nm波长范围内未经样品衰减以及经过样品衰减后的背光源辐射光谱，得到了Al样品的K壳层吸收谱. 利用细致谱线计算的吸收谱对实验光谱进行拟合，确定了Al样品等离子体的电子温度.     

超声空化引起界面湍动促进的传质机理

本文分析了超声空化引起界面湍动对传质过程的影响,提出了相界面上超声空化气泡析出增强边界层液体湍动并促进传质的机理,在传质理论和流体动力学原理的基础上,建立了超声空化引起界面湍动促进的传质机理模型,获得了超声空化引起界面湍动促进的传质系数表达式。实验结果验证了模型的合理性。该模型既证实了超声对传质有强化效应,又对传质过程有很好的预测功能,为工业化提供了理论依据。     

辐射加热Al等离子体的吸收谱实验

报道了辐射加热Al样品的K壳层辐射吸收谱实验. 在神光Ⅱ激光装置上,将8路主激光注入锥柱型金腔产生高温辐射源,利用该辐射源加热腔内的Al薄膜样品,产生温度达到几十电子伏的热稠密等离子体. 相对主激光延迟一定时间后,利用第9路激光短脉冲聚焦打靶加热金盘,产生短脉冲X光点光源. 通过测量075—085nm波长范围内未经样品衰减以及经过样品衰减后的背光源辐射光谱,得到了Al样品的K壳层吸收谱. 利用细致谱线计算的吸收谱对实验光谱进行拟合,确定了Al样品等离子体的电子温度. 关键词： Al等离子体 吸收谱 不透明度     

声光协同作用下金纳米颗粒表面空化泡的动力学研究

在激光和超声的协同作用下,金纳米颗粒表面会产生空化气泡。本文通过观察各种参数条件下空化泡的振荡变化,研究了激光光热、超声空化及其协同效应。研究发现,光热作用和激励声压的改变可以调节气泡的动力学过程,光热效应的增强有利于气泡的膨胀,激励声压的增加可以提高气泡运动的剧烈程度。两者的协同作用可以使气泡稳定存在并经历不同的振荡过程。此外,激光与超声协同方式的变化对气泡的运动过程有一定影响。      

样品温度和空间约束两种方法相结合对激光诱导击穿光谱的影响

升高样品温度和采用空间约束能提高激光诱导击穿光谱的信号强度,两种技术的结合可以进一步提高激光诱导击穿光谱的光谱强度。本文在空气环境中研究了升高样品温度和空间约束效应两种方法相结合对激光诱导击穿光谱的影响,测量了激光诱导铝等离子体的时间分辨光谱。实验结果表明:升高样品温度能增加激光诱导击穿光谱的信号强度,高温样品能耦合更多的激光能量;当圆柱形腔被用于约束等离子体时,信号强度得到了进一步提高。两个实验条件的结合对于激光诱导击穿光谱信号增强的效果明显强于单独升高样品温度或者单独采用空间约束的增强效果。单一200°C高温下样品的Al(I)396.2 nm线强度增加了1.4倍;单一空间约束条件下的Al(I)396.2 nm线强度增加了1.3倍;而在200°C和空间约束的组合条件下,Al(I)396.2 nm线强度增加了2.1倍。这个结合效应增强效果产生主要由于激光照射高温样品产生更强的冲击波,从而能更有效地压缩高温下产生的更大尺寸的等离子体羽,进一步提高了激光诱导击穿光谱的强度。     

用Z-scan法研究非线性介质中的热效应

从热传导方程出发,研究了脉冲激光作用下因样品线性和非线性吸收引起热效应而产生的折射率变化.从理论分析得出,当仅存在线性吸收时,非线性折射率的概念在通常情况下并不适合于由热效应产生的非线性,但在所用的激光脉冲很短的情况下,类似于其它非线性的各种效应,对热效应也可定义时间平均非线性折射率,并可用Z-scan法对这两类吸收感生的不同非线性折射率进行测量.所得结论符合实验结果.     

超声空化现象影响因素的实验研究

超声空化在许多不同的学科和工业生产中有着广泛的应用。超声空化的应用与声场的分布及空化的机理密切相关,精准地反映空化场和空化机理是超声空化技术实际应用的关键。该文通过分析采集的声信号和金属箔膜空蚀法对空化区域随液位发生变化的现象进行研究,并利用Matlab对金属箔膜空蚀程度量化。实验发现,超声波会在液面与实验箱体底部形成驻波场。在某一液体温度下,随着液位高度的变化,超声空化现象的出现具有周期性。并且,在同一液位下,当超声功率改变时,空化区域强度分布情况随之改变。小功率时各空化区域空化强度分布均匀,当功率增大到一定时,会出现空化屏蔽现象。该研究为超声清洗设备的改良提供了借鉴,对进一步认识和利用超声空化效应具有重要意义。     

微通道内光热相变驱动流体运动特性研究

本文通过可视化实验,对微通道内光热效应致相变驱动流体运动特性进行了研究,通过红外聚焦激光跟随微通道内液柱气液界面进行加热持续产生的蒸发冷凝-聚合过程对液柱进行连续驱动。实验研究了激光功率、加热点位置对相变过程中的界面行为、冷凝液滴分布、驱动速率的影响规律。结果表明,激光功率越高,光斑距离界面越近,液柱蒸发速率越大,蒸汽浓度高,冷凝液滴分布越密集,驱动流体流动速度越快。     

脉冲占空比对磁性微泡介导的聚焦超声温升效应的影响

集合多种诊断和治疗功能的声/磁造影剂微泡的研究与开发已经成为当前医学超声、生物医学工程及临床应用领域共同关注的热点问题.超顺磁氧化铁纳米颗粒具有独特的磁性特征和良好的生物相容性,可被用作核磁共振造影剂来提升影像对比度、空间分辨率及临床诊断准确性.我们的前期工作表明,通过将超顺磁氧化铁纳米颗粒挂载于常规超声造影剂微泡表面,可以成功构建多模态诊断及治疗介质,显著改变超声造影剂微泡的尺度分布及包膜粘弹系数等物理特性,进而影响微泡造影剂的声散射特性及其声空化效应和热效应.然而,此前的研究仅考虑了声场强度和微泡浓度等影响因素,对于脉冲超声时间特性对磁性微泡造影剂动力学响应的影响的相关研究仍有所欠缺.本文通过热电偶对凝胶仿体血管模型中流动的双模态磁性微泡在不同占空比超声脉冲信号作用下,产生温升效应开展了系统的实验测量,并基于有限元模型对实验结果进行了仿真验证.结果显示,脉冲信号占空比的提升是增强血管中磁性微泡在聚焦超声作用下温升效果的关键性时间影响因素.本文的研究成果将有助于更好地理解不同超声作用参数对双模态磁性微泡的热效应的影响机制,对保障双模态磁性微泡在临床热疗应用中的安全性和有效性具有重要的...     

Laser-enhanced thermal effects during focused ultrasound radiation on biological tissues

The thermal effects induced by a moderate intensity focused ultrasound and enhanced by combined laser pulses for bio-tissues and tissue-phantom are studied experimentally and theoretically. At first, the heating effects of bio-tissues and tissue-phantom induced by ultrasound and enhanced by laser are measured experimentally. The heating processes induced by attenuations of focused ultrasonic waves and cavitation effects of the focused ultrasound and combined laser are analyzed theoretically. By analyzing the mechanisms of these effects, it is found that the laser nucleation makes the cavitation bubble generation more easily, which can effectively enhance the ultrasonic cavitation effects, and then enhance the thermal effects of the samples. On the other hand, to evaluate quantitatively the heating processes induced by the focused ultrasound and enhanced by the pulsed laser, by fitting the theoretical calculations to the experimental results, the corresponding cavitation bubbles and rising temperatures induced by the focused ultrasound with and without laser can be estimated approximately.     

Laser-enhanced thermal effect of moderate intensity focused ultrasound on bio-tissues

For avoiding extra-damage to healthy tissues surrounding the focal point during high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment in medical therapy, to reduce the ultrasonic intensity outside the focal point is expected. Thus, the heating processes induced by moderate intensity focused ultrasound (MIFU) and enhanced by combined irradiation of laser pulses for bio-tissues are studied in details. For fresh bio-tissues, the enhanced thermal effects by pulsed laser combined with MIFU irradiation are observed experimentally. To explore the mechanisms of these effects, several tissue-mimicking materials composed of agar mixed with graphite powders are prepared and studied for comparison, but the laser-enhanced thermal effects in these mimicking materials are much less than that in the fresh bio-tissues. Therefore, it is suggested that the laser-enhanced thermal effects may be mainly attributed to bio-activities and related photo-bio-chemical effects of fresh tissues.     

Dynamical process of cavitation bubble adsorbed in gold nanoparticle under combined irradiations of laser and ultrasound

Under combined irradiation of laser and ultrasound,cavitary bubbles are generated on the surface of gold nanoparticle.The laser-induced thermal effect,ultrasonic cavitation effect and the synergistic effect of laser and ultrasound are studied by means of the investigation of the dynamical process for the vibration of the cavitation bubble,with different external conditions such as laser power,ultrasound intensity,etc.It is found that dynamical process of the cavitation bubble can be modified by the irradiation of laser or ultrasound.The enhancement of laser power can increase the critical radius of the cavitation bubble,while that of ultrasound may intensify the vibration.Cavitation bubble may become more stable due to the synergistic effect of laser and ultrasound.It is also found that variation of the coupling between laser and ultrasound can affect synergistic effect.     

Effects of nonlinear propagation, cavitation, and boiling in lesion formation by high intensity focused ultrasound in a gel phantom

The importance of nonlinear acoustic wave propagation and ultrasound-induced cavitation in the acceleration of thermal lesion production by high intensity focused ultrasound was investigated experimentally and theoretically in a transparent protein-containing gel. A numerical model that accounted for nonlinear acoustic propagation was used to simulate experimental conditions. Various exposure regimes with equal total ultrasound energy but variable peak acoustic pressure were studied for single lesions and lesion stripes obtained by moving the transducer. Static overpressure was applied to suppress cavitation. Strong enhancement of lesion production was observed for high amplitude waves and was supported by modeling. Through overpressure experiments it was shown that both nonlinear propagation and cavitation mechanisms participate in accelerating lesion inception and growth. Using B-mode ultrasound, cavitation was observed at normal ambient pressure as weakly enhanced echogenicity in the focal region, but was not detected with overpressure. Formation of tadpole-shaped lesions, shifted toward the transducer, was always observed to be due to boiling. Boiling bubbles were visible in the gel and were evident as strongly echogenic regions in B-mode images. These experiments indicate that nonlinear propagation and cavitation accelerate heating, but no lesion displacement or distortion was observed in the absence of boiling.     

Enhancement of heat transfer in forced convection by using dual low-high frequency ultrasound

Combined sonication with dual-frequency ultrasound has been investigated to enhance heat transfer in forced convection. The test section used for this study consists of a channel with, on one hand, heating blocks normal to the water flow, equipped with thermocouples, and, on the other hand, two ultrasonic emitters. One is facing the heating blocks, thus the ultrasonic field is perpendicular, and the second ultrasonic field is collinear to the water flow. Two types of ultrasonic waves were used: low-frequency ultrasound (25 kHz) to generate mainly acoustic cavitation and high-frequency ultrasound (2 MHz) well-known to induce Eckart’s acoustic streaming. A thermal approach was conducted to investigate heat transfer enhancement in the presence of ultrasound. This approach was completed with PIV measurements to assess the hydrodynamic behavior modifications under ultrasound. Sonochemiluminescence experiments were performed to account for the presence and the location of acoustic cavitation within the water flow. The results have shown a synergetic effect using combined low-and-high-frequency sonication. Enhancement of heat transfer is related to greater induced turbulence within the water flow by comparison with single-frequency sonication. However, the ultrasonically-induced turbulence is not homogeneously distributed within the water flow and the synergy effect on heat transfer enhancement depends mainly on the generation of turbulence along the heating wall. For the optimal configuration of dual-frequency sonication used in this work, a local heat transfer enhancement factor up to 366% was observed and Turbulent Kinetic Energy was enhanced by up to 84% when compared to silent regime.     

激光加热效应在硅显微Raman光谱测量中的影响

本文从理论和实验两方面研究了显微Raman光谱测量中,激光功率对单晶硅样品测量的影响。由于显微Raman光谱仪对激光的聚焦作用,使得激光对不同厚度的样品具有微区加热作用,被测样品产生不同程度的温升,从而对显微Raman光谱仪在硅材料应力和温度的测量中产生影响。实验结果证明,对无限厚硅样品,20mW的激光使Raman频移达到0.15cm-1;而对2μm厚的热薄硅样品,26mW的激光使Raman频移达到4.47cm-1。     

Prediction of vascular injury by cavitation microbubbles in a focused ultrasound field

Many studies have shown that microbubble cavitation is one mechanism for vascular injury under ultrasonic excitation. Previous work has attributed vascular damage to vessel expansions and invaginations due to the expansion and contraction of microbubbles. However, the mechanisms of vascular damage are not fully understood. In this paper, we investigate, theoretically and experimentally, the vessel injury due to stress induced by ultrasound-induced cavitation (UIC). A bubble-fluid-vessel coupling model is constructed to investigate the interactions of the coupling system. The dynamics process of vessel damage due to UIC is theoretically simulated with a finite element method, and a focused ultrasound (FU) setup is carried out and used to assess the vessel damage. The results show that shear stress contributes to vessel injury by cell detachment while normal stress mainly causes distention injury. Similar changes in cell detachment in a vessel over time can be observed with the experimental setup. The severity of vascular injury is correlated to acoustic parameters, bubble-wall distance, and microbubble sizes, and the duration of insonation..     

Bubble dynamics and size distributions during focused ultrasound insonation

The deposition of ultrasonic energy in tissue can cause tissue damage due to local heating. For pressures above a critical threshold, cavitation will occur, inducing a much larger thermal energy deposition in a local region. The present work develops a nonlinear bubble dynamics model to numerically investigate bubble oscillations and bubble-enhanced heating during focused ultrasound (HIFU) insonation. The model is applied to calculate two threshold-dependent phenomena occurring for nonlinearly oscillating bubbles: Shape instability and growth by rectified diffusion. These instabilities in turn are shown to place physical boundaries on the time-dependent bubble size distribution, and thus the thermal energy deposition.