Contrast agents for molecular photoacoustic imaging

Nature Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 639-650

  Weber, Judith ^a,b   Beard, Paul C ^c   Bohndiek, Sarah E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOPARTICLE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DYE; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; LIPOSOME; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHROMATOPHORE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOENCAPSULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PROCEDURES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84979966875     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3929     Document Type: Review

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