Plasmon-resonant gold nanorods provide spectroscopic OCT contrast in excised human breast tumors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6867, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Nanorods; Optical coherence tomography; Plasmon resonance; Spectroscopic optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMOLECULAR TARGETS; CONTRAST AGENT (CA); DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DISCRETE LOCATIONS; DUCTAL CARCINOMA; EVOLUTION (CO); EXTINCTION SPECTRUM; GOLD NANORODS (GNR); HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HUMAN BREAST; HUMAN TISSUES; IMAGING METHODS; LEAST SQUARES FITTING (LSF); MOLECULAR CONTRAST; MOLECULAR PROBES (CO); OCT IMAGING; OPTICAL-COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); PLASMON (CO); PROCESSING METHODS; SPATIAL AVERAGING;

COHERENT LIGHT; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; GOLD; HISTOLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOLECULES; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STABILIZERS (AGENTS); TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 42149107441     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.761886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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