0017-9310/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.07.045 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +7 499 250 3264; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (L.A. Dombrov A combined thermal model for transient temperature field in a tumor and ambient tissue during laser heating of embedded gold nanoparticles is developed. The approach considered is based on coupling of the...

1 Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R. O. C. 2 Instrument Technology Research Center, National Applied Research Laboratory, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, R. O. C. 3 Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C. 4 Institute of Optoelectronic Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, R. O. C Abstract The optica...

Fluorescence cell imaging can be used for disease diagnosis and cellular signal transduction. Using a metal nanoshell as molecular imaging agent, we develop a cellular model system to detect CXCR4 chemokine receptor on T-lymphatic cell surface. These metal nanoshells are observed to express enhanced emission intensity and shortened lifetimes due to the near-field interactions. They are covalent...

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