Novel quantum dots for enhanced tumor imaging

2008 8th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 650-653

  Nair, Ashwin ^a   Shen, Jinhui ^a   Thevenot, Paul ^a   Cai, Tong ^b   Hu, Zhibing ^b   Tang, Liping ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogel; Nanoparticle encapsulated quantum dot; Quantum dots; Tumor

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELLS; EFFECTIVE TOOLS; EMBEDDED QUANTUM DOTS; HYDROGEL NANOPARTICLES; IMAGING TOOLS; IN VITRO; QUANTUM DOTS; TUMOR IMAGING; TUMOR MODELS; TUMOR TISSUES;

COLLOIDS; HYDROGELS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TELEMETERING; TUMORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 55349092353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2008.197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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