Gold nanoparticles as contrast agents in x-ray imaging and computed tomography

LE Cole, RD Ross, JMR Tilley, T Vargo-Gogola… - …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… as an x-ray contrast agent due to … contrast agents within a paradigm of key structure–property–function
relationships in order to provide guidance for the design of AuNP contrast agents

Gold nanoparticles: a new X-ray contrast agent

JF Hainfeld, DN Slatkin, TM Focella… - The British journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Gold nanoparticles can be used as X-ray contrast agents with properties that overcome some
significant limitations of iodine-based agents… to use gold as an X-ray contrast agent in vivo. …

Recent development of gold nanoparticles as contrast agents for cancer diagnosis

D Luo, X Wang, C Burda, JP Basilion - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
… This review summarizes the development of AuNPs as contrast agents … of AuNPs as contrast
agents to diagnose cancers, from … the roles of AuNPs as contrast agents in cancer diagnosis …

Gold nanoparticles as computerized tomography (CT) contrast agents

D Xi, S Dong, X Meng, Q Lu, L Meng, J Ye - Rsc Advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
… on the GNPs used as CT contrast agents. We summarize the CT imaging … contrast effect
and toxicity. Finally, the future opportunities and challenges of GNPs used as CT contrast agents

Gadolinium chelate coated gold nanoparticles as contrast agents for both X-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

C Alric, J Taleb, G Le Duc, C Mandon… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
gold nanoparticles were applied as contrast agents for both in vivo X-ray and magnetic
resonance imaging. These particles were obtained by encapsulating gold cores … The contrast

Potential dependent superiority of gold nanoparticles in comparison to iodinated contrast agents

PA Jackson, WNWA Rahman, CJ Wong… - European journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
gold nanoparticle powder was suspended in 550 μL deionized water for imaging. Clinically
approved radiopaque contrast agent … for the gold nanoparticles and iodinated contrast agent (…

Gold nanoparticles as X‐ray, CT, and multimodal imaging contrast agents: Formulation, targeting, and methodology

MM Mahan, AL Doiron - Journal of nanomaterials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
contrast agents (CA) to create contrast, revealing anatomic information. Gold nanoparticles
(… AuNP can also be readily designed to incorporate other imaging contrast agents such as …

Directional conjugation of antibodies to nanoparticles for synthesis of multiplexed optical contrast agents with both delivery and targeting moieties

S Kumar, J Aaron, K Sokolov - Nature protocols, 2008 - nature.com
… Here, we use gold nanoparticles as optical probes to provide … on the surface of gold
nanoparticles to maximize antibody … antibody, to the gold nanoparticle surface. The conjugation …

Gold nanoparticle contrast agents in advanced X-ray imaging technologies

S Ahn, SY Jung, SJ Lee - Molecules, 2013 - mdpi.com
… , gas form contrast agents and iodinated derivates are mainly compared with gold nanoparticles
(… Many contrast agents have been and are to be developed further. However, a variety of …

Radiotherapy in the presence of contrast agents: a general figure of merit and its application to gold nanoparticles

SJ McMahon, MH Mendenhall, S Jain… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
… in the possibility of using contrast agents with high atomic number … Unfortunately, the
introduction of such contrast agents … and uptake ratio of gold nanoparticle contrast agents (10 mg …