Photoacoustic drug delivery

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Zhang, Yuqi ^a,b   Yu, Jicheng ^a,b   Kahkoska, Anna R ^c   Gu, Zhen ^a,b,c  

^a Biomedical Research Imaging Center   (United States)

^b UNC Hamner Institute for Drug Safety Sciences   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Drug delivery; Photoacoustic imaging; Photothermal therapy

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DELIVERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

BIO-IMAGING; CLINICAL TRANSLATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HIGHER RESOLUTION; IMAGING DEPTH; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PHOTOACOUSTICS; SPECTROSCOPY; THERANOSTIC NANOMEDICINE;

DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERANOSTIC NANOMEDICINE;

EID: 85021134792     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17061400     Document Type: Review

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