Ultrasonic Detection of Coronary Disease

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“…Such detection can be further enhanced by imparting targeting specificity to microbubbles directed at the novel receptors expressed on macrophages. In one such exploitation of shell properties in an experimental model of atherosclerosis, phosphatidylserine was incorporated in the liposome contrast agent to target the ubiquitously expressed phosphatidylserine receptors of macrophages (25).…”