Abstract
We have investigated the combined effect of HIFU and ethanol injection on the temperature rise and cavitation in porcine liver tissues and on the viability and proliferation rate of HepG2 liver cancer cells. Tissues were injected with 95% ethanol before being subjected to the HIFU beam generated by a 1.1 MHz transducer with acoustic power ranged from 1.17 W to 20.52 W. Cavitation events and the temperature in and around the focal zone were measured by a passive cavitation detector and type K thermocouples, respectively. In the cell study, 100 μl of HepG2 cell suspension (2.7 million cells/ml) was placed in a 0.2 ml thin-wall PCR tube. Ethanol 2% or 4% in the cell growth medium was added to the cell suspension, and the cells were then exposed to HIFU for 30 s. The data of these experiments show that the pre-treatment of tissues with ethanol reduces the threshold power for inertial cavitation and increases the temperature rise. Both the viability and proliferation rate were significantly decreased in cells treated with ethanol and HIFU, as compared to individual treatments. The results of our study indicate that ethanol injection and HIFU have a synergistic effect on liver cancer ablation.
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