A review of optical imaging and therapy using nanosized graphene and graphene oxide

Biomaterials

Volumn 34, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 9519-9534

  Li, Jing Liang ^a   Tang, Bin ^a   Yuan, Bing ^b   Sun, Lu ^a   Wang, Xun Gai ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Fluorescence; Laser ablation; Nanoparticle

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; GRAPHENE OXIDES; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHOTO-STABILITY; PHOTOTHERMAL CANCER THERAPY; PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECTS; PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY; TEMPORAL PROPERTY;

CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE; LASER ABLATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; DOXORUBICIN; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; INTEGRIN RECEPTOR; MACROGOL; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOSHEET; QUANTUM DOT; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABLATION THERAPY; CANCER CELL DESTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EXCITATION; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; LASER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED LASER; REDUCTION; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; TWO PHOTON LUMINESCENCE;

CHEMOTHERAPY; FLUORESCENCE; LASER ABLATION; NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEOPLASMS; OPTICAL IMAGING; OXIDES; PHOTOTHERAPY;

EID: 84884814371     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.08.066     Document Type: Review

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