Pharmacokinetic issues of imaging with nanoparticles: Focusing on carbon nanotubes and quantum dots

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 507-520

  Hong, Hao ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Cai, Weibo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cancer; Carbon nanotube (CNT); Fluorescence; Molecular imaging; Nanoparticles; Pharmacokinetics (PK); Positron emission tomography (PET); Quantum dot (QD)

Indexed keywords

ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CARBON 14; CARBON NANOTUBE; COPPER 64; DIHYDROLIPOATE; GADOLINIUM; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TETRAXETAN; YTTRIUM 86;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG EXTRAVASATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; ISOTOPE LABELING; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHARMACOKINETICS; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84885306249     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-013-0648-5     Document Type: Review

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