Micro-CT evaluation of gold nanoparticles for application in in-vivo imaging

• Main Author: Trono, Jade Dungao
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Diagnostic imaging; Microcomputed tomography; Contrast media (Diagnostic imaging); Nanoparticles; Biological and Chemical Physics; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12877
• Institution: De La Salle University

Gold nanoparticles have been used in research for both imaging and treatment of cancer. Primary advantage of gold nanoparticles is its tunability of size, particularly in the nanometer range. Due to their small size, they can easily travel thru microscopic capillaries of the circulatory system, faci...