This scientifically accurate, compelling and visually striking still is one from thousands of frames in Hang Yu Lin’s animation Focused ultrasound and microbubbles to overcome the blood-brain barrier for drug delivery.
Hang Yu Lin, MScBMC Class of 2020, created the 3D-animation Focused ultrasound and microbubbles to overcome the blood-brain barrier for drug delivery.
Lin's animation depicts a procedure developed at the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto. This innovative procedure uses a combination of focused ultrasound and microbubbles to deliver drugs to the brain through the blood-brain barrier.
The blood-brain barrier is important for keeping pathogens and foreign substances from entering the brain. But it also impedes the entry of drugs that can treat brain tumours, and diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Before Lin's animation, there were no visuals that told the whole story of this procedure, the complex way that it works, and the resolution after treatment.
Learn more about Hang Yu Lin's 3D-animation and Sunnybrook's innovative research through the University of Toronto's Research Revealed exhibition.
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Websites referenced
H. Lin Visuals https://www.hlin-visuals.com/
UofT’s Research Revealed Exhibition https://uoft.me/microbubbles