Dextran-coated Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles as a contrast agent in thermoacoustic tomography for hepatocellular carcinoma detection

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Qin, Huan ^a   Xu, Dong ^a   Yang, Sihua ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEXTRAN; DIAGNOSIS; LIVER; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONICS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LINEAR TRANSDUCER ARRAY; MAGNETIC NANO-PARTICLES; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEMS; THERMOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; THERMOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

THERMOACOUSTICS;

EID: 79953788678     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/277/1/012028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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