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From micro to nano in seconds

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Multimodal microbubbles exposed to ultrasound shrink to nanoparticles that retain the imaging and drug delivery potential of the parent microbubble.

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Figure 1: Conversion of microbubbles to nanoparticles using ultrasound.

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