| Literature DB >> 19566311 |
Manojit Pramanik1, Magdalena Swierczewska, Danielle Green, Balaji Sitharaman, Lihong V Wang.
Abstract
We have developed a novel carbon nanotube-based contrast agent for both thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography. In comparison to deionized water, single-walled carbon nanotubes exhibited more than twofold signal enhancement for thermoacoustic tomography at 3 GHz. In comparison to blood, they exhibited more than sixfold signal enhancement for photoacoustic tomography at 1064 nm wavelength. The large contrast enhancement of single-walled carbon nanotubes was further corroborated by tissue phantom imaging studies.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19566311 PMCID: PMC2732201 DOI: 10.1117/1.3147407
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biomed Opt ISSN: 1083-3668 Impact factor: 3.170