Ultrasound-triggered phase transition sensitive magnetic fluorescent nanodroplets as a multimodal imaging contrast agent in rat and mouse model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Cheng, Xin ^a,b   Li, Huan ^c   Chen, Yunchao ^c   Luo, Binhua ^a   Liu, Xuhan ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Xu, Haibo ^c   Yang, Xiangliang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; HEMOLYSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE TRANSITION; RATS; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84894058190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085003     Document Type: Article

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