Ultrasonic neuromodulation in a rat model: in vivo determination of the acoustic pressure threshold and spatial distribution in the brain

Youliana Younan Thomas Deffieux Benoit Larrat 1 Mathias Fink 2 Jean-François Aubry 3, * Mickaël Tanter 2
* Corresponding author
1 Physique des ondes pour la médecine
2 Institut Langevin ondes et images
3 LOA - Laboratoire ondes et acoustique
Abstract : The recent discovery that low-intensity pulsed ultrasound can be used to stimulate the brain non-invasively and without any noticeable tissue damage is expected to have a major impact in neuroscience in the coming years. Nevertheless, this emerging field also raised a lot of unanswered questions: how does ultrasound affect neurons on a molecular and cellular level? Does it correspond to a pure mechanical interaction? A controversy even rose on whether an intensity threshold exists for inducing a neurological response or if such an effect always occurs whatever the ultrasonic intensity. In this study, the motor responses of rats (N=6) were investigated as a function of the in situ excitation pressure level and a sharp threshold was observed at 0.5MPa. Moreover a set of micro CT-based simulations were performed in order to investigate the pressure distribution in the cranial cavity. The presence of modes in the cavity was observed thus refuting the hypothesis of a localized excitation in the state of art experiments. The corresponding mechanical stress imposed on brain tissue give new insights for understanding the underlying potential mechanisms.
Keywords : Neuromodulation Ultrasound Brain Therapy
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Youliana Younan, Thomas Deffieux, Benoit Larrat, Mathias Fink, Jean-François Aubry, et al.. Ultrasonic neuromodulation in a rat model: in vivo determination of the acoustic pressure threshold and spatial distribution in the brain. Acoustics 2012, Apr 2012, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-00811224⟩

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