Abstract
Applications involving acoustic cavitation mechanisms, such as sonoporation, are often poorly reproducible because of the unstationary behavior of cavitation. For this purpose, this study proposes to work at a fixed cavitation level instead of a fixed acoustic intensity. A regulated cavitation generator has been developed in an in vitro configuration of standing wave field. This system implements the regulation of the cavitation level during sonication by modulating the applied acoustic intensity with a feedback loop based on acoustic measurements. The experimental setup consists of a plane piezoelectric transducer for sonication (continuous wave, frequency 445 kHz) and a hydrophone pointing to the sonicated medium. The cavitation level is quantified every 5 ms from a spectral analysis of the acoustic signal. The results show that the regulation device generates reproducible mean cavitation levels with a standard deviation lower than 1.6% in the applied intensity range (from 0.12 to 3.44 W/cm 2), while this standard deviation can reach 76% without regulation. The feedback loop process imposes precise cavitation level even in low applied acoustic intensity.
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