Molecular photoacoustic tomography with colloidal nanobeacons.
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Spotting clots: Vascularly constrained colloidal gold nanobeacons (GNBs; see picture) can be used as exogenous photoacoustic contrast agents for the targeted detection of fibrin, a major biochemical feature of thrombus. Fibrin-targeted GNBs provide a more than tenfold signal enhancement in photoacoustic tomography in the near-IR wavelength window, indicating their potential for diagnostic imaging.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Angewandte Chemie
دوره 48 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009