Cancer nanotheranostics: improving imaging and therapy by targeted delivery across biological barriers

FM Kievit, M Zhang - Advanced materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer nanotheranostics aims to combine imaging and therapy of cancer through use of
nanotechnology. The ability to engineer nanomaterials to interact with cancer cells at the …

Upconverting and NIR emitting rare earth based nanostructures for NIR-bioimaging

E Hemmer, N Venkatachalam, H Hyodo, A Hattori… - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, significant progress was achieved in the field of nanomedicine and
bioimaging, but the development of new biomarkers for reliable detection of diseases at an …

Inorganic nanoparticles for MRI contrast agents

HB Na, IC Song, T Hyeon - Advanced materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Various inorganic nanoparticles have been used as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
contrast agents due to their unique properties, such as large surface area and efficient …

Nanosystems: the use of nanoalloys, metallic, bimetallic, and magnetic nanoparticles in biomedical applications

K McNamara, SAM Tofail - Physical chemistry chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a growing interest in the use of nanosystems such as nanoalloys, bimetallic
nanoparticles, metallic nanoparticles and magnetic nanoparticles in biomedical …

Nonblinking and nonbleaching upconverting nanoparticles as an optical imaging nanoprobe and T1 magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent

YI Park, JH Kim, KT Lee, KS Jeon, HB Na… - Advanced …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticles have been extensively studied for their unique size-dependent electronic,
optical, and magnetic properties and their potential applications as probes in biomedical …

Paramagnetic ultrasmall gadolinium oxide nanoparticles as advanced T 1 MRI contrast agent: account for large longitudinal relaxivity, optimal particle diameter, and in …

JY Park, MJ Baek, ES Choi, S Woo, JH Kim, TJ Kim… - ACS …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic ultrasmall gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3) nanoparticles with particle diameters (d)
of∼ 1 nm were synthesized by using three kinds of Gd (III) ion precursors and by refluxing …

Dual-modality in vivo imaging using rare-earth nanocrystals with near-infrared to near-infrared (NIR-to-NIR) upconversion luminescence and magnetic resonance …

J Zhou, Y Sun, X Du, L Xiong, H Hu, F Li - Biomaterials, 2010 - Elsevier
Upconversion luminescence (UCL) imaging is expected to play a significant role in future
photoluminescence imaging since it shows advantages of sharp emission lines, long …

Nanostructured T1 MRI contrast agents

HB Na, T Hyeon - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances on new T1 MRI contrast agents using nanostructured materials will be
presented. Paramagnetic Gd3+ ions have been immobilized in nanostructured matrices …

Towards polymetallic lanthanide complexes as dual contrast agents for magnetic resonance and optical imaging

E Debroye, TN Parac-Vogt - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a popular imaging technique in medical diagnostics.
With the development of contrast agents, interest in its applications has grown tremendously …

Magnetically engineered semiconductor quantum dots as multimodal imaging probes

L Jing, K Ding, SV Kershaw, IM Kempson… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐emitting semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) combined with magnetic resonance
imaging contrast agents within a single nanoparticle platform are considered to perform as …