Determining molecular mass distributions and compositions of functionalized dendrimer nanoparticles

Nanomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 391-399

  Sousa, A A ^a   Aronova, M A ^a   Wu, H ^b   Sarin, H ^a,c   Griffiths, G L ^b   Leapman, R D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrimer; EFTEM; Electron microscopy; Energy filtered transmission electron microscopy; Gadolinium; Mass measurement; Scanning transmission; STEM

Indexed keywords

DENDRIMER; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; POLYAMIDOAMINE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG CONJUGATION; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOMEDICINE; NANOPARTICLES; POLYAMINES;

EID: 67649988816     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.09.14     Document Type: Article

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