Putting gold nanocages to work for optical imaging, controlled release and cancer theranostics

Nanomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 1715-1728

  Pang, Bo ^a,b   Yang, Xuan ^a   Xia, Younan ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer theranostics; controlled release; gold nanostructures; hollow nanostructures; nanocages; near infrared; optical imaging; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DRUG CARRIER; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CERENKOV LUMINESCENCE IMAGING; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOTHERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; THERANOSTIC NANOMEDICINE; THREE PHOTON LUMINESCENCE IMAGING; TWO PHOTON LUMINESCENCE IMAGING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DELAYED RELEASE FORMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG RELEASE; NEOPLASM; POROSITY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG LIBERATION; GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASMS; OPTICAL IMAGING; POROSITY; THERANOSTIC NANOMEDICINE;

EID: 84978370401     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm-2016-0109     Document Type: Review

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