Tyrosinase-catalyzed melanin as a contrast agent for photoacoustic tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7899, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Krumholz, Arie ^a   Chavez, Sarah ^b   Yao, Junjie ^a   Fleming, Timothy ^b   Gillanders, William E ^b   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Molecular imaging; Photoacoustic tomography; Reporter gene; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CATALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; GENES; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MELANIN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHANTOMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TOMOGRAPHY;

293 CELLS; CELL LINES; CONTRAST AGENT; NUDE MICE; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; REPORTER GENE; TRANSFECTED CELLS; TUMOUR CELLS; TYROSINASE;

MAMMALS;

EID: 79955498483     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.879110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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