Plasmonic gold nanostars: A potential agent for molecular imaging and cancer therapy

Biomedical Optics, BIOMED 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yuan, Hsiangkuo ^a   Khoury, Christopher ^a   Fales, Andrew ^a   Wilson, Christy ^b   Grant, Gerald ^b   Vo Dinh, Tuan ^a,c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; MOLECULAR IMAGING;

CANCER THERAPY; GOLD NANOSTARS; IN-VITRO; NEAR INFRARED; PARTICLE TRACKING; PHOTOTHERMAL ABLATION THERAPY; TISSUE OPTIC; TWO-PHOTON PHOTOLUMINESCENCES;

PLASMONICS;

EID: 84890608656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/biomed.2012.bm2a.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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