Nanoparticles for targeted therapeutics and diagnostics

Handbook of Biomedical Optics

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 697-721

  Larson, Timothy ^a   Travis, Kort ^b   Joshi, Pratixa ^a   Sokolov, Konstantin ^a,c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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TARGETED THERAPEUTICS;

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