Gold nanorods: Contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging?

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6631, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ungureanu, C ^a   Gopal, R Raja ^a   Van Leeuwen, T G ^a   Manohar, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer imaging; Contrast agents; Gold nanorods; Nanoparticles; Photoacoustic imaging

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

CANCER IMAGING; CONTRAST AGENTS; GOLD NANORODS; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 36248990225     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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