FeCo/graphitic-shell nanocrystals as advanced magnetic-resonance-imaging and near-infrared agents

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 971-976

  Seo, Won Seok ^a   Lee, Jin Hyung ^b   Sun, Xiaoming ^a   Suzuki, Yoriyasu ^c   Mann, David ^a   Liu, Zhuang ^a   Terashima, Masahiro ^c   Yang, Philip C ^c   McConnell, Michael V ^c   Nishimura, Dwight G ^b   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPHITE FIBERS; INFRARED DEVICES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; OXIDATION; PYROLYSIS; TOXICITY;

INFRARED OPTICAL ABSORBANCE; PHOTOTHERMAL ABLATION APPLICATIONS; PYROLYTIC CARBON;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COBALT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FERROCOBALT; FERROUS ION; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; RABBIT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COBALT; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; GRAPHITE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; RABBITS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 33751558119     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1775     Document Type: Article

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