Microbubbles stabilized by protein shell: from pioneering ultrasound contrast agents to advanced theranostic systems

PG Rudakovskaya, RA Barmin, PS Kuzmin… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound is a widely-used imaging modality in clinics as a low-cost, non-invasive, non-
radiative procedure allowing therapists faster decision-making. Microbubbles have been …

Non-invasive microwave-based imaging system for early detection of breast tumours

C Blanco-Angulo, A Martínez-Lozano… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work introduces a microwave-based system able to detect tumours in breast phantoms
in a non-invasive way. The data acquisition system is composed of a hardware system …

Imaging breast malignancies with the Twente Photoacoustic Mammoscope 2

SM Schoustra, B De Santi, TJPM op't Root… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Clinical measurements on breast cancer patients were performed with a three-dimensional
tomographic photoacoustic prototype imager (PAM 2). Patients with a suspicious lesion …

Hydrophobically Modified Silica-Coated Gold Nanorods for Generating Nonlinear Photoacoustic Signals

EN Mueller, M Kuriakose, S Ganguly… - ACS applied nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we report that not only do gold nanorods coated with hydrophobically modified
mesoporous silica shells enhance the photoacoustic (PA) signal over unmodified …

Health risk detection and classification model using multi-model-based image channel expansion and visual pattern standardization

CM Kim, EJ Hong, K Chung, RC Park - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although mammography is an effective screening method for early detection of breast
cancer, it is also difficult for experts to use since it requires a high level of sensitivity and …