Backscattering albedo contrast in OCT using plasmon-resonant gold nanorods

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6429, Issue , 2007, Pages

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

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

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Contrast agents; Optical coherence tomography; Plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; GOLD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TISSUE;

ALBEDO; CONTRAST AGENTS; MOLECULAR IMAGING;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34248576025     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.702847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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