Carbon nanotubes for biomedical imaging: The recent advances

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 65, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1951-1963

  Gong, Hua ^a   Peng, Rui ^a   Liu, Zhuang ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Carbon nanotubes; Magnetic resonance; NIR II fluorescence; Nuclear imaging; Photoacoustic; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ENERGY GAP; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GOLD COATINGS; INFRARED DEVICES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPROBES; NANOTUBES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROBES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

BAND-GAP FLUORESCENCE; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR IMAGING; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; RESONANCE RAMAN SCATTERING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); TISSUE PENETRATIONS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; METAL NANOPARTICLE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; RADIOISOTOPE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CHIRALITY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NANOIMAGING; NANOMEDICINE; NANOPROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

1,4,7,10-TETRAAZACYCLODODECANE-1,4,7,10-TETRAACETIC ACID; 1D; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; C18PMH-PEG; CARBON NANOTUBES; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS; CNTS; CTCS; DENSITY OF STATES; DOS; DOTA; ENHANCED PERMEABILITY AND RETENTION; EPR; GNTS; GOLDEN NANOTUBES; HMSCS; HUMAN MSCS; ICG; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MR; MSC; NEAR INFRARED; NIR; NIR-II FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEAR IMAGING; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PA; PAH; PCA; PEG; PET; PHOSPHOLIPID-PEG; PHOTOACOUSTIC; PL-PEG; POLY(ALLYLAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE); POLY(MALEIC ANHYDRIDE-ALT-1-OCTADECENE)-POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QDS; QUANTUM DOTS; QUANTUM YIELD; QY; RADICAL BREATHING MODE; RAMAN SCATTERING; RBM; SERS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SPECT; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; SWNTS; ULTRA-SHORT SWNTS; US-TUBES; VAN HOFF SINGULARITIES; VHSS;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84888875280     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: 18728294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2013.10.002     Document Type: Review

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