Exact Therapeutics AS 1 article published in JoVE Bioengineering Real-Time Intravital Multiphoton Microscopy to Visualize Focused Ultrasound and Microbubble Treatments to Increase Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Charissa Poon1,2, Melina Mühlenpfordt*3, Marieke Olsman*3, Spiros Kotopoulis4,5, Catharina de Lange Davies3, Kullervo Hynynen1,2,6 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.
