Potential of gold-bound microtubules as a new ultrasound contrast agent

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 691-695

  Bekeredjian, Raffi ^a   Behrens, Silke ^b   Ruef, Johannes ^a   Dinjus, Eckhard ^b   Unger, Eberhard ^c   Baum, Marina ^c   Kuecherer, Helmut F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Innere Medizin III ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibody conjugation; Contrast agent; Imaging; Site targeting; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BACKSCATTERING; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; LATEXES;

MICROTUBULES;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANTIBODY; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; GOLD; LATEX; SHU 508;

ARTICLE; BALLOON; COLLOID; CONJUGATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; GASES; GOLD; MICROSPHERES; MICROTUBULES; POLYSACCHARIDES; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036086347     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00502-1     Document Type: Article

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