Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 27, 2026
06:42
Plasmonic Photothermal Cancer Therapy: Nanoparticle-embedded Tumor-tissue-mimicking Phantoms for Visualizing Photothermal Temperature Distribution
Published on: May 9, 2025
Polypyrrole nanoparticles: a potential optical coherence tomography contrast agent for cancer imaging
Kin Man Au1, Zenghai Lu, Stephen J Matcher
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Yorkshire, UK.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|November 22, 2011
Abstract:
A near-infrared (NIR) absorbing contrast agent based on polypyrrole nanoparticles is described. Quantitative optical coherence tomography studies on tissue phantoms and Mie scattering calculations indicate their potential application for early-stage cancer diagnosis.
