Characterization of plasmon-resonant gold nanorods as near-infrared optical contrast agents investigated using a double-integrating sphere system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5703, Issue , 2005, Pages 50-60

  Oldenburg, Amy ^a   Zweifel, Daniel A ^b   Xu, Chenyang ^a   Wei, Alexander ^b   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Integrating spheres; Nanorods; Optical coherence tomography; Plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST AGENTS; INTEGRATING SPHERES; NANORODS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); PLASMON RESONANCE;

CHARACTERIZATION; GOLD; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 23244438825     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.589617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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