Dynamic contrast-enhanced photoacoustic imaging using photothermal stimuli-responsive composite nanomodulators

Photoacoustic imaging becomes an enabling technology that is designed for clinic diagnosis of disease. Here, Chenet al. report an imaging contrast agent—plasmonic nanoparticles caged in hydrogel subject to reversible volume change depending on temperature, which exhibits tunable photoacoustic signal...

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Main Authors: Yun-Sheng Chen, Soon Joon Yoon, Wolfgang Frey, Mary Dockery, Stanislav Emelianov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15782