Plasmonic gold nanostars for Multi-Modality sensing and diagnostics

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 3706-3720

  Liu, Yang ^a,b   Yuan, Hsiangkuo ^a   Kersey, Farrell R ^c   Register, Janna K ^a   Parrott, Matthew C ^c   Vo Dinh, Tuan ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gold nanostars; Multifunctional; Plasmonics; Sensing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING; TISSUE;

GOLD NANOSTARS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL; PLASMONICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SENSING; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); TWO-PHOTON PHOTOLUMINESCENCES; X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84925847441     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150203706     Document Type: Review

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