Real-Time Intravital Multiphoton Microscopy to Visualize Focused Ultrasound and Microbubble Treatments to Increase Blood-Brain Barrier PermeabilityCharissa Poon 1,2, Melina Mühlenpfordt *3, Marieke Olsman *3, Spiros Kotopoulis 4,5, Catharina de Lange Davies 3, Kullervo Hynynen 1,2,6
1Physical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, 2Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 3Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 4Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, 5Exact Therapeutics AS, 6Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
This protocol describes the surgical and technical procedures that enable real-time in vivo multiphoton fluorescence imaging of the rodent brain during focused ultrasound and microbubble treatments to increase blood-brain barrier permeability.