Surface engineering of semiconducting polymer nanoparticles for amplified photoacoustic imaging

• Main Authors: Zhen, Xu, Feng, Xiaohua, Xie, Chen, Zheng, Yuanjin, Pu, Kanyi
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Semiconducting polymer nanoparticles; Photoacoustic imaging
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80510; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42155
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite the deeper tissue penetration of photoacoustic (PA) imaging, its sensitivity is generally lower than optical imaging. This fact partially restricts the applications of PA imaging and greatly stimulates the development of sensitive PA imaging agents. We herein report that the surface coating...