Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Powered Micro-Optical Coherence Tomography for in Situ Imaging the Penetration and Swelling of Polymeric Microneedles in the Skin

• Main Authors: Seeni, Razina Z., Yu, Xiaojun, Chang, Hao, Chen, Peng, Liu, Linbo, Xu, Chenjie
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Iron Oxide Nanoparticles; Microneedles
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87034; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44311
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, polymeric microneedles (MNs) have attracted keen interests among researchers because of their applicability in transdermal drug delivery and interstitial skin fluid (ISF) extraction. When designing and characterizing such devices, it is critical to monitor their real-time in vitro a...