Molecular photoacoustic tomography with colloidal nanobeacons

Dipanjan Pan, Manojit Pramanik, Angana Senpan, Xinmai Yang, Kwang H. Song, Mike J. Scott, Huiying Zhang, Patrick J. Gaffney, Samuel A. Wickline, Lihong V. Wang, Gregory M. Lanza

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Abstract

Spotting clots: Vascularly constrained colloidal gold nanobeacons (GNBs; see picture) can be used as exogenous photoacoustic contrast agents for the targeted detection of fibrin, a major biochemical feature of thrombus. Fibrin-targeted GNBs provide a more than tenfold signal enhancement in photoacoustic tomography in the near-IR wavelength window, indicating their potential for diagnostic imaging.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4170-4173
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume48
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - May 25 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Contrast agents
  • Gold
  • Molecular imaging
  • Nanoparticles
  • Photoacoustic tomography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • Catalysis

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