Quantum dots encapsulated in phospholipid micelles for imaging and quantification of tumors in the near-infrared region

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 216-224

  Papagiannaros, Aristarchos ^a   Levchenko, Tatyana ^a   Hartner, William ^a   Mongayt, Dmitry ^a   Torchilin, Vladimir ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Nanosized imaging agents; Near infrared whole body imaging; Polymeric micelles; Tumor imaging quantum dots

Indexed keywords

BIODISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST AGENTS; IMAGING AGENT; INTERNAL ORGANS; NANO-SIZED; NANOSIZED IMAGING AGENTS; NEAR INFRA RED; NEAR INFRARED REGION; NEAR-INFRARED WHOLE-BODY IMAGING; NIR IMAGING; NONINVASIVE METHODS; POLYMERIC MICELLES; QUANTUM DOT; TUMOR AREAS; TUMOR VASCULATURE; WHOLE-BODY; WHOLE-BODY IMAGING;

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICELLES; ONCOLOGY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CADMIUM SELENIDE; MACROGOL; PHOSPHOLIPID; QTRACKER800; QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; MICELLE; MOUSE; NANOENCAPSULATION; NANOIMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICELLES; NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 67349244438     PISSN: 15499634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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