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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2009 Aug;35(8):1385–1396. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.04.010

Table 2.

Dissolution time for a 2.5 micron encapsulated microbubbles with different gases in an air-saturated medium

Osmotic agent Dissolution time, tdiss
SF6 35 seconds
C3F8 42 minutes
n-C4F10 83 hours
n-C5F12 17 days
n-C6F14 17 days 14 hours