Applications of gold nanorods in biomedical imaging and related fields

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2530-2536

  Ma, ZhiYa ^a   Xia, HongXing ^a   Liu, YuPing ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Zhao, YuanDi ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

biomedical imaging; drug delivery; gold nanorods; photothermal therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880604403     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5720-7     Document Type: Review

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