Photoacoustic imaging: contrast agents and their biomedical applications

Q Fu, R Zhu, J Song, H Yang, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging as a fast‐developing imaging technique has great potential in
biomedical and clinical applications. It is a noninvasive imaging modality that depends on …

Rethinking cancer nanotheranostics

H Chen, W Zhang, G Zhu, J Xie, X Chen - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in nanoparticle synthesis and engineering have produced nanoscale agents
affording both therapeutic and diagnostic functions that are often referred to by the …

Contrast agents for molecular photoacoustic imaging

J Weber, PC Beard, SE Bohndiek - Nature methods, 2016 - nature.com
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging tool that bridges the traditional depth limits of
ballistic optical imaging and the resolution limits of diffuse optical imaging. Using the …

Gold nanoparticle‐mediated photothermal therapy: applications and opportunities for multimodal cancer treatment

RS Riley, ES Day - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photothermal therapy (PTT), in which nanoparticles embedded within tumors generate heat
in response to exogenously applied laser light, has been well documented as an …

Through scalp and skull NIR‐II photothermal therapy of deep orthotopic brain tumors with precise photoacoustic imaging guidance

B Guo, Z Sheng, D Hu, C Liu, H Zheng… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Brain tumor is one of the most lethal cancers owing to the existence of blood–brain barrier
and blood–brain tumor barrier as well as the lack of highly effective brain tumor treatment …

Gold nanostructures: synthesis, properties, and neurological applications

I Zare, MT Yaraki, G Speranza, AH Najafabadi… - Chemical society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in technology are expected to increase our current understanding of
neuroscience. Nanotechnology and nanomaterials can alter and control neural functionality …

Gold nanomaterials at work in biomedicine

X Yang, M Yang, B Pang, M Vara, Y Xia - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

Functional nanomaterials for phototherapies of cancer

L Cheng, C Wang, L Feng, K Yang, Z Liu - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Cancer has been one of the major threats to the lives of human beings for centuries.(1)
Current cancer therapies mainly include surgery, chemotherapies, and radiotherapies …

Gold nanoparticles for photoacoustic imaging

W Li, X Chen - Nanomedicine, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a biomedical imaging modality that provides functional
information regarding the cellular and molecular signatures of tissue by using endogenous …

Stimuli responsive drug delivery systems based on nano-graphene for cancer therapy

K Yang, L Feng, Z Liu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Nano-graphene as a class of two-dimensional sp 2 carbon nanomaterial has attracted
tremendous attentions in various fields in the past decade. Utilizing its unique physical and …