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Danielle Rand1, Vivian Ortiz, Yanan Liu, Zoltan Derdak, Jack R Wands, Milan Tatíček, Christoph Rose-Petruck.
Abstract
We present the development of a new imaging technique for the early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma that utilizes surface-modified gold nanoparticles in combination with X-ray imaging. Tissues labeled with these electron-dense particles show enhanced X-ray scattering over normal tissues, distinguishing cells containing gold nanoparticles from cells without gold in X-ray scatter images. Our results suggest that this novel approach could enable the in vivo detection of tumors as small as a few millimeters in size.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21644516 PMCID: PMC3138192 DOI: 10.1021/nl200858y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189