Plasmon-resonant gold nanorods as low backscattering albedo contrast agents for optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6724-6738

  Oldenburg, Amy L ^a   Hansen, Matthew N ^b   Zweifel, Daniel A ^b   Wei, Alexander ^b   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

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

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GOLD; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; GOLD NANORODS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); TISSUE PHANTOMS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33746379543     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006724     Document Type: Article

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